Category Archives: Revisited

An UnderratedRead Revisited: Havana Libre – Robert Arellano

(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “…now that doctors are malnourished malcontents while dropouts driving tourist taxis are relative millionaires.” Twenty-eight-year-old Dr. Manolo Rodriguez, a pediatrician for the national medical service in Havana, Cuba, resents how most of the medical resources … Continue reading

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An UnderratedRead Revisited: A Matter of Conscience – James Bartleman

(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “…Canadians in general are more prepared to help the poor of the Third World than the First Peoples in their own country.” James Bartleman, retired Ontario lieutenant governor and member of the Chippewas of Rama … Continue reading

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An UnderratedRead Revisited: Red Lights – Georges Simenon, Translated from the French by Norman Denny

(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “I met a man in whom, for hours, I tried to see another me, another me that wasn’t a coward, a man I wished I could be like…” Steve Hogan, and his wife, Nancy are … Continue reading

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An UnderratedRead Revisited: The Patient – Jasper DeWitt

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Patient additionally shows a high propensity toward violence and sadism. Patient has assaulted numerous members of staff and has had to be restrained. Despite relative youth, patient seems intuitively aware of which parts of the human … Continue reading

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An UnderratedRead Revisited: The Riddle of the Sphinx – Alexandre Montagu

(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned How do I begin a review of a novel that kept me captive from page one and didn’t release me until the very end? I didn’t want to break for work, family, friends, or anything. … Continue reading

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An UnderratedRead Revisited: Eve Out of Her Ruins – Ananda Devi (translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman)

(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “Night makes its way into our bodies and refuses to leave. Night and our hormones gone wild. We boys are bundles of frustration. We start following girls to the shuttered factory that devoured our mothers’ … Continue reading

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An UnderratedRead Revisited: The Desire Card- Lee Matthew Goldberg

(Reviewed by Christopher J. Lynch) Lee Matthew Goldberg’s, The Desire Card, is the kind of book that can put a strain on your relationship. That’s right, it’s that “pull-you-right-in, page-turner” type of book that can evoke the ire of your … Continue reading

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An UnderratedRead Revisited: The Girl from Rostov- Shitij Sharma

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Everything adds up. Every second, every lie, every breath. In the end, it all catches up with you.” “Even if you have little to do with it. Family, for instance. “ That’s what young Maya had … Continue reading

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An UnderratedRead Revisited: My Neighbour Osama Bin Laden – Yslar Tatuky

(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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An UnderratedRead Revisited: Late Fame (NYRB Classics) – Arthur Schnitzler (Author), Alexander Starritt (Translator)

(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “Around him was an atmosphere of hope, youth, self-confidence, and he breathed it in deeply. …some of the words they were using began to sound familiar to him…words he had thought of from time to … Continue reading

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