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Category Archives: Fiction
A Tongue in the Sink: The Harrowing Adventures of a Baby Boomer Childhood – Dennis Fried
(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
Posted in Bios and Memoirs, Humor & Satire, Reviewers' Top Picks
Tagged baby-boomers, New York
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Woodcutter – Shaun Baines
(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
Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers
Tagged book reviews. fiction, British crime, suspense
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The Pursuit of Ordinary – Nigel Jay Cooper
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “With me inside him, he didn’t feel dislocated like he used to. It was like he was back in tune with the world, experiencing real, solid emotions for the first time in years.” Joe was … Continue reading
Posted in Modern Literary Fiction
Tagged ADULT FICTION, book reviews, British literature, fiction, mental illness
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Death of a Movie Star – Timothy Patrick
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Every week you tell fifty million people that actors are less than human and deserve to be treated like Shit!” That is what Micah Bailey “the actors’ manager who hated actors”, is noted for doing as … Continue reading
Posted in More fiction
Tagged book reviews, Hollywood, light fiction, light humor
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Gables Court – Alan S. Kessler
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Samuel Baas is a hopeless romantic. He wants to remain a virgin until he falls in love and marries his soulmate. Moving from New England opens him to wonders and questions his thinking process, like the … Continue reading
Posted in Modern Literary Fiction
Tagged book reviews, fiction
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Sugar Skulls – M.R. Tapia
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Celestial authorities have coordinated with the Emergency Alert System to issue this warning: Your soul is now properly fucked…” Micah DeAtta, a young drug and alcohol addicted, depressed, deadbeat dad is faced with finality—death itself. Death … Continue reading
Posted in Dark/Sordid/Bizarre, Modern Literary Fiction
Tagged book reviews, death, fiction, memories, regrets
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Riapoke – Bryan Nowak
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) When a mother and son take a trip to Riapoke, they ignore any suspicious and unusual things they see or hear. Little do they know their lives are in danger. Serial killing is a norm in … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers
Tagged book reviews, fiction, thriller
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In-Laws and Outlaws – Kate Fulford
(Reviewed by JD Jung) We’ve all heard stories about the “mother in-law from hell”. Maybe you even have one. Rest assured though, that she can’t be as evil as this fiancé’s mother. Eve has found the love of her life, … Continue reading
Posted in Humor & Satire
Tagged family dysfunction, fiction, humor
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Full Service Blonde (A Copper Black Mystery)- Megan Edwards
(Reviewed by JD Jung) Twenty-four year old aspiring journalist, Copper Black, left the comfort of the East Coast to accept an offer at a newspaper, the Las Vegas Light, as an Assistant Editor. This was in spite of warnings from … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers
Tagged book reviews. fiction, journalism, Las Vegas
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Siphon – A. A. Medina
Reviewed by JD Jung) Hematopathologist Gary Phillips continually pulls all-nighters at the hospital and hates his job. He has no girlfriend or social life, though he has an infatuation with a female co-worker who is at least ten years … Continue reading