A Divided Life: A Personal Portrait of the Spy Donald Maclean – Robert Cecil

(Reviewed by Ila Bullinger) Who was Donald Mclean? The son of a parliament member born to class in Marylebone, London in 1913. He was privileged, educated, handsome and charismatic. So why did he become a spy? Could you be persuaded to betray your country, lie to everyone you know, live a lie? No one had…

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Baby Blue (Stratos Gazis Series) – Pol Koutsakis (Author), Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife (Translator)

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “The kind of work I do defines who I am. Who I am defines the kind of work that I do. I am my work. It gives my life meaning. I clear the world of filth and get paid for it. I didn’t ever want, didn’t know, didn’t think about doing…

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24: What Can Happen in a Day – Michael Ford Jr

(Reviewed by Heidi A. Swan) “I exit the vehicle and move swiftly to the point of the accident to find something I have never seen in my five years in the [fire] department. There is the man…still smashed between the rear of one car and the front bumper of another car, and he is still…

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You Can Invest Like A Stock Market Pro: How to Use Simple and Powerful Strategies of the World’s Greatest Investors to Build Wealth- James Pattersenn Jr.

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “A good investment program is usually a boring one that allows an investor to sleep well at night…” Personal investor, James Pattersenn Jr. explains his steps to lucrative, “worry free” investing that beats market performance over the long-term in his comprehensive guide, You Can Invest Like A Stock Market Pro: How…

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The Garbage Times/White Ibis: Two Novellas- Sam Pink

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “By closing, I’d carried a drunk woman out, separated two fights, stood in the doorway to block someone from coming in after she pissed/puked herself out front…scooped puke out of a urinal with stunning accuracy, and made a hundred dollars betting on a bowling match on TV.” The bartender then asked…

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Everybody Wins (Except for the Losers): A Record Store Day Story – Steve Murphy

(Reviewed by Don Jung) In this digital age, you would think that record stores are a thing of the past. But this particular record store is full of passionate employees who love what they do. After all, their world revolves around music. So you can imagine the excitement building up to the annual vinyl record…

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An Important UnderratedRead Revisited: The Least Among Us: Waging the Battle for the Vulnerable – Rosa DeLauro

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Morally speaking, the social safety net acknowledges that we are accountable to one another. It originated from our recognition that the vulnerable and the poor are not alien populations; they are us, in certain times and sometimes unforeseen circumstances.” So, what happened? Why did a bipartisan agreement for this safety net…

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Gigolo: Inside the Secret World of the Super Rich – Ben Foster, Clifford Thurlow

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “…I had plenty of money but always needed more. I had thought of myself as a healer when I started work at the spa. I had turned into a total slut. I played every client until they let go of their inhibitions and submitted to their secret fantasies. Ladies who left…

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Poso Wells- Gabriela Alemán (Translated from the Spanish by Dick Cluster)

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Something crouches in the streets of Poso Wells, and it attaches the nerves like a persistent drumbeat. Whatever it is haunts the dreams of the residents, panting I their faces, slobbering them with noxious saliva and septic-tank breath, leaving their bodies sticky and dirty when they wake up.” “…if you wanted…

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The Third Hotel: A Novel – Laura van den Berg

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “The foundation of horror is a dislocation of reality, a dislocation designed to reveal the reality that has been there all along, and such dislocations happen all the time. “ That was according to the fictional Yuniel Mata, director of Revolución Zombi , the first horror movie ever made in Cuba.…

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