Category Archives: Modern Literary Fiction

That Crazy Perfect Someday – Michael Mazza

Posted on October 25, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Don Jung) Record- breaking surfer, Mufuri Long, has the goal of winning the Olympics in the future year of 2024. The trials and training that goes into this sport is splattered with her father’s depressive attitude on life … Continue reading →

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Sex and Rage: A Novel – Eve Babitz

Posted on August 7, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Years and years and years were pocked with holes of things Jacaranda simple didn’t remember, with people Jacaranda didn’t remember meeting, conversations she didn’t remember having, promises and parties and great ideas and projects Jacaranda didn’t … Continue reading →

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New People – Danzy Senna

Posted on August 1, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “The poet is not a New Person…He doesn’t have mud-toned dreadlocks or octoroon gray eyes or butterscotch skin. …He has the body, the skin, the face that cabdrivers pretend not to see, that jewelers in midtown … Continue reading →

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Elle – Philippe Djian

Posted on June 8, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “It’s this other me coming out, though I fight it tooth and nail. It’s a me that invites confusion, flux, unexplored territories. I don’t know. I can’t screw open my head and take a look inside.” … Continue reading →

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Heels over Head Paperback – Clay G. Small

Posted on April 24, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “The Lindon brothers and their redneck friend had not only humiliated him in from of the whole damn school but had unleased his father’s scorn. Guy Jr. tightened his fists. No matter how long it took, … Continue reading →

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Caresaway – DJ Cockburn

Posted on April 17, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “If Caresaway had infected the executive boards of the world’s corporations with people incapable of remorse and obsessed with short-term gain…was it any wonder that so many corporations were so badly managed?” British scientist, Dr. Edward … Continue reading →

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My Ladybird Story: The growing pains of a Transgender – Magus Tor

Posted on March 16, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) When a Man loves a Woman, It is Heterosexual When a Woman loves a Woman, It is Homosexual When a Female Transsexual loves a Woman, What will it be? That is the synopsis of My Ladybird … Continue reading →

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The Secret Sex Life of Angels: Mysteries of Isis – I. J. Weinstock

Posted on February 26, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Pat Luboff) “When one man questioned the belief that the earth was flat, A New World was discovered and a Renaissance of unimaginable possibilities was born. Once we question our limited and destructive beliefs about sex, who knows? … Continue reading →

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Holding Out for a Zero-Heather Wardell

Posted on January 26, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) “I’m doing the right thing, not feeding myself. It’s the only thing I can do, so I will do it. Gloria can somehow have the energy I don’t take in, and it will help her stay … Continue reading →

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Ocean Echoes – by Sheila Hurst

Posted on December 20, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Ocean Echoes is an educational read on our beautiful oceans through the eyes of  marine biologist, Ellen Upton, who is seeking to discover new findings through her ever ending funds at the Cape Cod research facility. … Continue reading →

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