(reviewed by JD Jung) “She turns her giving of love available to transact with, as a form of punishment, a torment, an affliction, an act of revenge. She replays overtures of love with suffering and pain.” So why is writer Nathan Falk so obsessed with the icy, callous but beautiful Lena? She’s also an author,…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) When I travel to a new city, I love to pop into independent bookstores. So, when I ran across Hard To Find Bookshop, a second-hand bookstore in Auckland, New Zealand, I just had to enter this unusual building. This book cover caught my attention,so I bought Lives on Fire, a short…
(Reviewed by Don Jung) I started reading A Killing Game during a long flight to New Zealand. The problem was that upon arrival, I didn’t want to go out and see the sights. I just had to stay in my hotel room and finish the book. And I admit that it was well worth it.…
(Reviewed by J.D. Jung) When I visit San Francisco, I often gaze over the bay to that small island that radiates so much history. This island housed some of America’s most infamous criminals: Al Capone, Robert Franklin Stroud (the Birdman of Alcatraz), George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Mickey Cohen, and many others. On this visit though,…
(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…
( by JD Jung) First, we want to wish all our readers a safe New Year filled with love and happiness throughout 2020 and beyond! Second, you may wonder why we don’t post reviews more often. Yes, we realize that "Content is king", and we know that you want to see it all the time.…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I felt as if my native land was rejecting me. Making me more hostile. My country was dismissing me all means. I thought about the many unintelligent and corrupted doctors that tried to place me in a psychiatric hospital in Utica. Then I thought of the perverse editors, who would have…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) For many of us, ushering in the New Year serves as a letdown, following the joyous Christmas season. For Izzy Miller (aka Muddy Rivers, aka Val Virgo), the season represents the low points of his life. Not only did he feel like an outsider looking in as a Jewish kid, but…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) , #CommissionsEarned Rudy Harrington, a sixty-year-old widower, is trying to find the meaning of life…his life. Is there any purpose left? To try and answer this question, he takes up the study of philosophy. Since his wife, Helen, died seven years ago and his three daughters have moved out on their…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I also hate the ladies of Bogotá among whom I count myself, though I do all I can to stand apart. I hate their habit of using the term “Indians” to refer to people they consider to be from a low social class…. I hate so many things in so many…
