Tag Archives: friendship

Goldenseal – Maria Hummel

Posted on February 15, 2024 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) Lacey and Edith, ages seventy and seventy-one respectively, have been estranged for forty-four years. It’s now 1990, and Edith decides to travel across the country to visit her one-time best friend. Lacey, born in Prague, … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical Fiction, Modern Literary Fiction, Our Best | Tagged friendship, Los Angeles, relationships, socio-economic class, WWII | Comments Off

An UnderratedRead Revisited : Songs by Honeybird: Peter McDade

Posted on August 16, 2023 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Pat Luboff) #CommissionsEarned “Find your focus and the story may write itself: music and drugs, race and gender, a tragic barn fire and a missing body. It’s all much more dramatic than one usually sees in a dissertation….” … Continue reading →

Posted in Revisited | Tagged friendship, history, music, philosophy, sexism | Comments Off

Many Are Invited – Dennis Cuesta

Posted on October 6, 2022 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned An untimely death at a housewarming party takes place just prior to the millennium, and Silicon Valley IT professional Steve Galanos is trying to make sense of it all. Later, he proceeds to recount events … Continue reading →

Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers, Modern Literary Fiction | Tagged Big Tech, friendship, jealousy, Silicon Valley | Comments Off

Songs by Honeybird – Peter McDade

Posted on March 27, 2022 by J D Jung

Posted in Modern Literary Fiction, Our Best, Romance | Tagged friendship, history, music, philosophy, Romance, sexism | Comments Off

Beware the Mermaids – Carrie Talick

Posted on September 12, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Don Jung) What happens when you are content with your current life, but circumstances force you to make unexpected changes? Fifty-seven-year-old grandmother, Nancy, thought she was happy, but then caught her husband with another woman on their yacht. … Continue reading →

Posted in Modern Literary Fiction | Tagged boats, divorce, friendship, infidelity, sea, women's fiction | Comments Off

The People of Ostrich Mountain- Ndirangu Githaiga

Posted on February 18, 2021 by J D Jung

(reviewed by Ann Onymous ) This book takes its title from the view of Mt. Kilimanjaro from a distance. To some there appear to be ostriches up at the top but when we look closer, we each see different things. … Continue reading →

Posted in Immigration, Modern Literary Fiction | Tagged family, friendship, gender, immigration, Kenya, race | Comments Off

In West Mills – De’Shawn Charles Winslow

Posted on June 16, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “You don’t want to be caught up in other folks’ lies and secrets. Ain’t a good feelin’ to keep stuff in ya.” It’s October 1941 and everyone seems to have secrets in this African American community … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical Fiction | Tagged family, friendship, love, North Carolina | Comments Off