Broken Pieces of God – David B Seaburn

Posted on June 29, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Broken Pieces of God is a fictional name about a couple and their struggles with cancer, unemployment, financial hardship, and religious reliance. Eddy works for a cable company and loses his job. Gayle is a tax accountant who has ovarian cancer, enduring failed treatments and insurance problems. The family is under…

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Dangerous Conjectures – Brian Finney

Posted on June 22, 2021 by J D Jung

(reviewed by JD Jung) “She couldn’t decide which was deteriorating faster---her life or the country. They were all in the hands of a president who was spreading misinformation as fast as the virus was spreading infection across the world.” “Even his country seemed in danger. Was it going to survive? Would his marriage? Adam and…

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Nine Moons – Gabriela Wiener, Jessica Powell (Translator)

Posted on June 14, 2021 by J D Jung

(reviewed by JD Jung) “Europe is the best place for a Latin American to starve to death and drink good wine.” Gabriela Wiener and her husband originally travelled from Peru to Barcelona on student visas. However, when these two journalists sought  employment as undocumented immigrants, they found they were on the bottom of the hiring…

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Arsène Lupin, gentleman-burglar – Maurice LeBlanc, Edgar Jepson (Translator)

Posted on June 12, 2021 by J D Jung

(reviewed by JD Jung) “You don’t know who Lupin is? The most whimsical, the most audacious, and the most genial thief in France. For the last ten years he has kept the police at bay….In fact, he’s our national robber.” I admit that I was not familiar with Maurice Leblanc’s early twentieth century stories featuring…

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Where Silence Ends – Angela Ruiz, Mary Ruiz

Posted on June 8, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Where Silence Ends is a beautiful story about how a young girl finally breaks silence over all the abuse and trauma she has gone through. Reading through four generations of Mexican American culture, family drama, and abuse, this memoir truly advocates for those who endure sexual abuse and how hard it…

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Hits, Heathens, and Hippos: Stories from an Agent, Activist, and Adventurer – Marty Essen

Posted on June 3, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Don Jung)   Marty Essen is an interesting personality who went from being in the music industry to becoming a political activist and then a travel writer/lecturer covering seven continents. This autobiography has a laid-back narrative that feels like your cousin coming home to tell his stories. Starting with his teenage experience working…

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Barcelona Dreaming – Rupert Thomson

Posted on May 30, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “His discovery that I had been seeing a Moroccan immigrant half my age shocked him even more than the fact that I was implicated in my next-door neighbor’s death. He believed I was trying to destroy myself. Kamikaze behavior, he called it.” “The Giant of Sarrià”, the first in these three…

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An UnderratedRead Revisited: Torment – H.D. Hunter

Posted on May 24, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I wish I could tell them how hard it was. How hard it still is. I wish I could tell them that just because a person doesn’t understand what it means to be broken doesn’t mean they can’t tell they aren’t whole. “ This young man plagued with the label of…

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An UnderratedRead Revisited: A Rebel in Gaza: Behind the Lines of the Arab Spring, One Woman’s Story – Asmaa al-Ghoul (Author), Selim Nassib (Author), Mike Mitchell (Translator)

Posted on May 18, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I think the real occupying forces are the internal ones, Hamas, Fatah, the parties…then comes the major occupation: Israel. We can’t get rid of the latter without first of all getting rid of the former. To be honest, we are being subjected to a siege of the mind that is much…

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Operation Chaos: The Trump Coup Attempt and the Campaign to Erode Democracy – Kevin James Shay

Posted on May 14, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) It’s bad enough that many Republicans still refuse to accept the validity of the legitimate 2020 U.S. Presidential election. Now congressmen such as Ralph Norman (R-SC), Andrew Clyde (R-GA), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), and others even refuse to acknowledge the violent insurrection of January 6, where Trump supporters demanded the overturn of…

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