Category Archives: Non-fiction

My Neighbour Osama Bin Laden – Yslar Tatuky

Posted on August 31, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned What happens when one puts Osama bin Laden and Salman Rushdie at the same dinner table? Yslar Tatuky is such a person as he has grand, though idealistic, hopes for humanity in his novel, My … Continue reading →

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Mr. Siegel Writes to Washington – Rich Siegel

Posted on August 28, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Don Jung) Mr. Siegel sends a weekly letter to various Republican politicians on what they are doing wrong. This collection of letters to each Republican senator (including multiple ones to speaker McConnell) is filled with a satirical look … Continue reading →

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Secrets To Being Amazing: What confident people don’t do – Denise Wijayaratne

Posted on August 5, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Self- awareness is the first step to change, and to a better world.” “Find the good things you like about yourself and focus all your time on that. If somebody says something unpleasant about you, ask … Continue reading →

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Torn from the World: A Guerrilla’s Escape from a Secret Prison in Mexico – John Gibler

Posted on July 15, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “This word: disappeared. They have so many ways of erasing you, “of trying to make you doubt the truth of your own life.” After five days, after every two hours, after only having felt a world … Continue reading →

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Golden Monkey- Lance Pototschnik

Posted on July 9, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Nathan was meant to be the last batch, to use the last of the family dough. All the remaining chocolate chips were dumped into him—he was large, muscular, handsome, and had a charming inexplicable southern drawl. … Continue reading →

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Rockin’ Through Troubled Waters: Memoir -Surviving the West Coast Music Scene 1966-1971 – Don Jung

Posted on June 25, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Cathy Carey) Wow! I want to thank the author for this sentimental journey. I was only on page 15 when I had already downloaded two albums from iTunes. Be prepared to have a whole new perspective listening to … Continue reading →

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Date Like a Woman – Kai Nicole

Posted on June 21, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Judy Deutsch ) Let me be upfront with you. I’m not the target audience for this book. I’m not a millennial. In fact, I’m quite a bit older than the author, Kai Nicole. I married young, found myself … Continue reading →

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Constance: One Road to Take: The Life and Photography of Constance Stuart Larrabee (1914–2000) – Peter Elliott

Posted on June 4, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Constance is not so much of a biography but an attempt to put Constance Stuart Larrabee’s life into perspective using her photography. The attempt is to gain more of an understanding of her work, thus allowing … Continue reading →

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How to Remove a Brain: and other bizarre medical practices and procedures – David Haviland

Posted on April 25, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) So why would anyone want to remove a brain? Author David Haviland answers the “why” and the “how” in this informative and entertaining book. Haviland also shares with us a gross method of contraception in ancient … Continue reading →

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The Riddle of the Sphinx – Alexandre Montagu

Posted on April 15, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung)   Eric (Keyvan) fled Iran as a child during the Islamic revolution and grew up in Paris. He later studied Comparative Literature at Princeton. That is one scenario. What would have happened if he was forced … Continue reading →

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