(Reviewed by JD Jung) "The sense of well-being which had flooded through me as I sat at the table and thought of not having now the burden of another’s life on me had almost entirely vanished, and the humiliation of the choice she had made, and the quickness with which she had discarded me, had…
(Reviewed by Glenda Anderson) As of this writing, my car is oiled and gassed, ready to tear over the Cajon Pass for Route 66 territory so I can help put out the fires of evil, eat some pancakes and possibly meet up with some neat folks who have a propensity for being targets of some…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) "Nine months before my fiftieth birthday, I am sexually propositioned by a thirty-three-year-old young man (...he seems so Benjamin-boyish)...The next thing I think, delighted, is "Well, here's to you, Mrs. Robinson." I think of martini assignations in hotel bars and black lace garter belts and sheer stockings..." However, when author Tara Ison…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Byron claims he has proof the Cubs and the Red Sox fixed the World Series…But he could never publish it because the censors would say it hurt morale—that it would be injurious to the war effort.” --September 24, 1918 Byron Townsend started as a sports reporter at his father's newspaper, The Boston…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) Mathematicians collide with murder and mayhem in Guillermo Martínez’s thriller, The Oxford Murders. An un-named young Argentinean graduate student goes to Oxford University to study mathematics. One evening, he returns to the house where he’s renting a room and finds Arthur Seldom, a leader in the field of logic, waiting outside.…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I was beginning to realize that what I wanted was the noise of people living near me, but not near enough to cause any inaudible noises to show up because I knew that those sorts of noises often shift into inaudible minor chords and I am unable to deal with that…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “It would be years before I would be prepared to accept his self-assessment [as a sick person], and even then, not fully. …he was handsome, wealthy, the youngest tenured professor at one of the nation’s most prestigious colleges, and already internationally known for his work; many people would have happily…
Dear readers, please be patient with us. You may think that we’re on hiatus, or worse, have totally disappeared. Not so. We're definitely around, struggling to find literary gems that we recommend. We've been doing a lot of reading (and I mean tons!), but just can’t seem to find that exceptional book worth your time and $$. Yes, your…
Cari Lynn I was so intrigued with Cari Lynn’s latest novel, Madam, that I spent hours researching the infamous New Orleans Madam, Josie Arlington. Afterwards I just had to ask Cari about her story and what motivated her to seek out this fascinating piece of American history. JDJ - What prompted you to write about…
