(Reviewed by JD Jung) "I was absolutely right to accept and harden my heart. A model reader should be a perfectly neutral and biddable instrument. Purely a tool. Purely a voice. Purely transparent. That may well be her limitation, but it may also be her glory. I now feel I'm really getting somewhere with my…
(Reviewed by Ishita RC) Lady Grace Carpenter has loved only one man since the day she made her debut in the Ton Season. She never expected to run into him again, years later, on a stormy night. She was ready to seize the day, or rather, the night, since she knew that marriage would never be in…
(Reviewed by Ishita RC) The midnight watch: a time of loneliness, demons and trances. The Titanic has been mentioned as one of the greatest man-made tragedies. While the movie has combined a tragedy with a love story , I found The Midnight Watch more intriguing and provoking. The plot is a unique blend of facts…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “…bicycles are stupid. It makes no sense to ride a bike when there are so many parking lots designed just for cars. If you don’t drive a car, you’re wasting parking spaces. …. If everyone rode a bike, we wouldn’t need to have wars to get oil from other countries, and…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “In the post [WWII] years, The [F] Word began to creep into the mainstream, used for some supposed shock value. But then the dam burst. The incessant use of The [F] Word today has reduced its value to nothing more than sophomoric." “The term is not necessarily pejorative when properly understood.”…
(Reviewed by Lee Nelson) Part mystery, part Twilight Zone, this fast-reading novella will excite the lovers of the unknown. (By the way – it’s hard to write a review when one wants readers to discover the unexpected twists and turns for themselves, so please bear with me.) A young woman wakes up after a night of heavy…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “The morning sun transformed into a rainbow as it passed through beveled-glass panes and formed a halo around Coco’s tousled black hair Her olive features and brown saucer eyes never looked more vibrant. I melted like white chocolate on a wrought iron bench on a summer day.” But New Orleans P.I.…
(Reviewed by Ishita RC) Human Trafficking is not only abhorrent but also one of the fastest growing criminal enterprises in the 21st century. Dr. Cynthia Lange has learned about the harsh realities of life through sheer strength of character and also because she had the luck of having good people on her side. She may…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “…the internet is a fantastic information source but reading is different. With books you learn things, random things, whatever the author might be talking to you about, and you sort of soak them up like a sponge over the years. They are stored away in some dim recess of the unconscious…
