(Reviewed by Pat Luboff) I have a friend named Dori. We don’t see each other or speak to each other often, but when we do get together, something special happens. We get into a rapid-fire back-and-forth that turns into laughter and the laughter feeds on itself and grows and grows until we don’t know…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned Why would someone agree to participate in a clandestine operation in which they knew nothing about? Would it be for the excitement, money, or for a totally different reason? This is the premise of the character-driven, off-beat novel, Seven Down. Not only did these people have no idea as to…
(Reviewed by Christopher J. Lynch) #CommissionsEarned Where Have You Been Bobby Marr? is the memoir of Bobby Marr, a young man who left the US to fight in Viet Nam as a whole man, but came back in pieces, physically and mentally. And while all the king’s horses and all the king’s men tried to…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “Less than a year ago, when the curtain fell after the opening night applause, I assumed the New York City I knew---and my place in it---could last forever.” A Season in Lights celebrates performers and other creative artists who travel to New York to fulfill their dreams. Specifically, the story…
(Review and poem by Betty Jo Tucker) #CommissionsEarned This review poem about the novel Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts is dedicated to the late JoAnne Pulcino, my dear cousin who loved watching The Wizard of Oz movie based on the works of L. Frank Baum. …
(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned "Poor mannish boy, Danny, hear me singing straight at you You know you sold your soul. And now you've lost that …
(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “ Now that I was living without all the relics of my former identity, there was a glimmer of something new. The heady possibly of freedom.” Kamin was thirty-two and seemed to have it all: a dream job as editor of a fashion magazine, her own London apartment and a…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “The universe shrank daily around me, the bookstore itself was the center, the black hole, the very bottomless hell that would consume me in the end. ..the bookstore was insatiable, a structure of otherworldly forces. It devoured everything that came within its sphere of gravity, and didn’t bother to spit…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) Affections is an intriguing work of historical fiction based on true events following the once- close Ertl family. Hans, the patriarch, was a Nazi propaganda cinematographer, and the family fled Munich and arrived in La Paz, Bolivia in 1955 to start a new life. Hans, who was also a mountaineer in…
(Reviewed by Don Jung) #CommissionsEarned Madrid, 1937 - Civil War chaos has engulfed the country as the city is under siege. Amid uncertainty, three Americans are going there to find and hopefully exhume the remains of a dead American soldier and give him a proper family burial. The deceased’s uncle hires Major Williamson, a former…
