Category Archives: Fiction

Saving Phoebe Murrow – Herta Feely

Posted on October 4, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) Have you ever tried to be or imagined how to be a perfect mother while balancing your career? Well, suburban mother and a D.C. Lawyer Isabel Murrow can tell you how the journey has been so … Continue reading →

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Once Lost Lords – Stephan Morse

Posted on October 1, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Once Lost Lords is a book about survival, love, and intense battles. Author Stephan Morse takes us into dark times, where elves, wolves and vampires live together. Jay Fields is a tracker; one of the few left that takes … Continue reading →

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When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends – Mary McAuliffe

Posted on September 28, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “A swelling population of expats, dubbed the “Lost Generation,” either found themselves or became permanently mired in a haze of fantasy and booze. Escapism and creativity mingled for a decade in this fizzy atmosphere, until the … Continue reading →

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Roadside Assistance (Body Shop Bad Boys) -Marie Harte

Posted on September 24, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) Foley Sanders always thought he would be content with his life full of cars and his family until an encounter with the statuesque redhead Cynthia Nichols. Now he can’t stop thinking about her and it doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Make Wizardry Great Again – Rednal Sua

Posted on September 22, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “We gotta put up a a wall. A yuuge wall around the the whole resort so nobody can get in unless they’re loaded with money or guns. Only pure-blooded Americans. And pure-blooded Scottish. And half-German, half-Scottish.” … Continue reading →

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Outside the Lines (Forensic Handwriting Series) (Volume 6) – Sheila Lowe

Posted on September 19, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Cathy Carey) Do you know that hand writing that is small linear with wide spaces between the words indicates someone who is more intellectually than emotionally oriented? A left slant like that of a slingshot drawn back as … Continue reading →

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Blood Betrayal (Deathless Night Series Book 4) – L.E. Wilson

Posted on September 17, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) Vampire Christian Moore has always lived by his personal code of morals, until a curse finds him looking for solace, bed-hopping between countless women. On one such night, he finds himself helpless, kidnapped, caged and at … Continue reading →

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Pale Highway – Nicholas Conley

Posted on September 8, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) Gabriel Schist was the one who changed the face of medical history with his invention of the vaccine that cured AIDS. But now the same genius mind is languishing behind the walls of Bright New Day … Continue reading →

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The Bible in Spain: Or, The journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the peninsula. – George Henry Borrow

Posted on September 5, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by arwen1968) In 1842, a nobody called George Borrow wrote a detailed, 550-pages-long account of his day job. Sounds boring? Well, it isn’t: Borrow’s day job was to sell bibles in war-torn, Catholic Spain. Anybody familiar with Catholicism knows … Continue reading →

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Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. – Eve Babitz (Author), Matthew Specktor (Introduction)

Posted on August 30, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Los Angeles isn’t a city. It’s a gigantic, sprawling, ongoing studio. Everything is off the record. People don’t have time to apologize for its not being a city when their civilized friends suspect them of losing … Continue reading →

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