Overcoming Anxiety & Depression: A step-by-step guide to overcoming anxiety and depression, lower stress and learn how to practice self-love and self-compassion … Affirmations, Happiness, stress management) – Lydia Francis

(Reviewed by Pat Luboff)   This is going to be a very short review. This is a very short book! My review copy was in PDF format. Take away the title page, the index, the forward and a last “keep in touch” page, and what’s left is twenty-four typewritten pages. Pages with lots of space…

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Wanted: Stories about Immigrants and Refugees

( by JD Jung) It sickens me how my country, the United States,  not only continues to arrest Central American refugees at our borders, but also separates children from their parents. I cannot even begin to imagine the fear and horror that both the children and adults are enduring. Supposedly, the children are no longer…

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Lunacy and Death: A perspective developed over thirty years of working in mental health and death investigation – Tom Dombrock

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “They plant little beasties in your psyche that love nothing more than to dart out from the holes they’ve bored into your brain, race around inside your skull, flipping switches, overturning tables, and playing the stereo way too fucking loud.” The “They” that Tom Dombrock is referring to are actually his…

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Spice: A Novel (Fate) – Jenna Jameson, Jamie K Schmidt

(Reviewed by JD Jung) I must admit that the name “Jenna Jameson” was what enticed me to read the novel, Spice. I also must admit that initially I wasn’t expecting much. Was I wrong! Liz Carter aka “Spice”, an internationally known porn actress, quit the lucrative adult film industry after getting pregnant. She moved back…

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An UnderratedRead Revisited: Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People – Danny Katch

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Trump is a tumor, not the cancer. He can do deadly harm if we don’t stop him, but we also have to treat the deeper sickness.” So how did we get to this point?  How was Trump  able to connect  with “ enraged male impotence”?  This is what socialist Danny Katch…

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Lagos Noir – Chris Abani (Editor)

(Reviewed by JD Jung) I have never been to Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria and actually, the largest city in the entire African continent. In fact, I have never been anywhere in sub-Saharan Africa. That said, I enjoyed the unique stories in one of the latest in the Akashic Noir Series, Lagos Noir. Though…

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Sexographies – Gabriela Wiener (translated from the Spanish by Jennifer Adcock and Lucy Greaves)

(Reviewed by JD Jung) Gabriela Wiener is not just any journalist. This Peruvian-born writer prefers to experience topics first-hand. That may even involve putting herself in extreme and often risky situations and then writing about her participation. So when it came to studying contemporary love and sex, she did just that. In between it all,…

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A Conversation with H.A. Swan

  After reading A Night in Jail, a riveting story based on true events, I just had to learn more about the inspiration for the book and the topic in general. I spoke with co-author H. A.  Swan to hopefully get my questions answered. JDJ - What inspired you to write the book? HAS -…

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A Better Ten Commandments: A Guide to Living Life with and on Purpose – James Miller

(Reviewed by Pat Luboff) I must admit I almost didn’t review this book. I was reading it and put it aside. Ironically, because it espouses tossing out the old Moses tablet-engraved rules, I thought at first that it was a bit preachy for my taste. I left the book sitting on my dining room table…

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An UnderratedRead Revisited: Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance – Bill McKibben

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Vermont on its own will be a lot closer to what Lincoln had in mind for a healthy country.” When is a country just too big to be accountable to all of its citizens? Former radio host, seventy-two year old Vern Barclay believes that the United States is just that and…

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