Author Archives: J D Jung

15 Steps to Healthy Living: Learn how to naturally lose weight, gain energy and live a healthy enhanced lifestyle – Gordon Fimreite

Posted on May 29, 2018 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) 15 Steps to Healthy Living is a well-being, self-help book written primarily to assist people in naturally losing weight and living a healthy life by gaining the right energy. The author demonstrates 15 ways of achieving … Continue reading →

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An UnderratedRead Revisited: The Dying Crapshooter’s Blues – David Fulmer

Posted on May 27, 2018 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) Atlanta, 1923: In the midst of Prohibition, the city is seething with corruption, bootlegging, narcotics, gambling, and counterfeiting scams. This would seem the perfect scenario for Joe “Indian Joe” Rose to drift into town, as he … Continue reading →

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The Skin Room – Morgan Fleetwood

Posted on May 22, 2018 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “…I was already imagining her insides —I am not one to stop at the body naked. My imagination ran behind the flesh, into the pulp. I imagined her glistening innards, her yellow and purple heart, the … Continue reading →

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The Ghetto Swinger: A Berlin Jazz-Legend Remembers – Coco Schumann (Author), John Howard (Translator)

Posted on May 18, 2018 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung)   “I am a musician, a musician who was imprisoned in a concentration camp, not a concentration camp inmate who also plays some music. The camps and the fear fundamentally changed my life, but it was … Continue reading →

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Songs to New York – Myrtle Brooks

Posted on May 15, 2018 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Pat Luboff)       “Does she live in the subway?” “Non,  non, mon fils. She rented an apartment across from the park because the Washington Square Arch reminds her of L’Arc de Triomphe.”         … Continue reading →

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A Tongue in the Sink: The Harrowing Adventures of a Baby Boomer Childhood – Dennis Fried

Posted on May 13, 2018 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Pat Luboff) I swear I am going to die laughing if I have enough wits about me as I breathe my last to remember one particular sentence in this book! I’m not going to tell you which one, … Continue reading →

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Woodcutter – Shaun Baines

Posted on May 10, 2018 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “He made you as indifferent to human suffering as the fucking moon. I’ve done my fair share of evil, but he went too far with you. You were his atom bomb, something that couldn’t be stopped … Continue reading →

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Verklempt – Peter Sichrovsky (Author), Ari Roth (Foreword), John Howard (Translator)

Posted on May 6, 2018 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Thomas remained a man without a past, without memories, without old photographs and without stories from earlier years.” He is just one of the many Jews who chose to live in a land where their parents … Continue reading →

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Hemingway’s Havana: A Reflection of the Writer’s Life in Cuba – Robert Wheeler

Posted on May 3, 2018 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “So much of Havana, and Cuba, centers on the sea, and in this beautiful but merciless sea lies a part of Hemingway’s spirit and a vast part of his literary genius.” The sea, along with Cuba’s … Continue reading →

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The Art of Fully Living: 1 Man. 10 Years. 100 Life Goals Around the World – Tal Gur

Posted on May 1, 2018 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Tal Gur is a man who aims to live life to the fullest, and wants to help others do the same. He expresses this sentiment in his memoir/self-help book, The Art of Fully Living . The … Continue reading →

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