(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,…
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 -…
(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…
(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…
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) 15 Steps to Healthy Living is a well-being, self-help book written primarily to assist people in naturally losing weight and living a healthy life by gaining the right energy. The author demonstrates 15 ways of achieving such a goal by using his grandmother as an example. He uses her success in…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) Atlanta, 1923: In the midst of Prohibition, the city is seething with corruption, bootlegging, narcotics, gambling, and counterfeiting scams. This would seem the perfect scenario for Joe “Indian Joe” Rose to drift into town, as he does every year or so, to try to make some cash. Actually, Joe couldn’t have…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “…I was already imagining her insides ---I am not one to stop at the body naked. My imagination ran behind the flesh, into the pulp. I imagined her glistening innards, her yellow and purple heart, the cool pink exit of her colon.” Alex Melville: 32 years old, freelance translator, serial…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I am a musician, a musician who was imprisoned in a concentration camp, not a concentration camp inmate who also plays some music. The camps and the fear fundamentally changed my life, but it was shaped by music and music did its work well." Coco Schumann considered himself both a…
