Tag Archives: grief

All We Trust – Gregory Galloway

Posted on August 26, 2025 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) Half-brothers Peck and Al, launder money for a local crime lord through a bar and hardware store. They have been partners in petty crime since childhood, but adulthood has only deepened their dependence on each other. … Continue reading →

Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers | Tagged crime fiction, grief, loyalty | Comments Off

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty-Akwaeke Emezi

Posted on May 24, 2022 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned I must admit that I’m not a romantic, and I very seldom read romance novels. That said, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Nigerian author Akwaeke Emezi takes this genre to … Continue reading →

Posted in Romance | Tagged Contemporary Romance, grief, love, Romance | Comments Off

An UnderratedRead Revisited: The Third Hotel: A Novel – Laura van den Berg

Posted on September 24, 2021 by J D Jung

(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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Revisited | Tagged cinema, Cuba, death, grief, Havana, Latin America, surrealism | Comments Off

Cenotaphs – Rich Marcello

Posted on July 30, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “If you live long enough, most people leave, a few by staying true to themselves, more by death, indifference, or being driven away. “ Seventy-five-year-old retiree Ben Sanna realizes that no one has stayed with him … Continue reading →

Posted in Modern Literary Fiction | Tagged death, grief, loss, love, redemption, relationships | Comments Off

An Ambiguous Grief – Dominique Hunter

Posted on October 1, 2020 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) An Ambiguous Grief is a beautiful memoir written about a mother’s loss, her grief over her son Dylan’s death, and the story behind why it came to be this way. The focus is on Dylan, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Bios and Memoirs | Tagged grief, OCD | 2 Comments

There Has to Be a Knife – Adnan Khan

Posted on May 25, 2020 by J D Jung

(reviewed by JD Jung) < “Those pleasures that I always had access to with her—the tactile, her body, food, her laugh—I knew I would have to keep her away from my darkness to preserve them. I wanted too many shallow, … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Modern Literary Fiction | Tagged Canada, class conflict, grief, Islam, mysogeny, Toronto | Comments Off

The Third Hotel: A Novel – Laura van den Berg

Posted on August 27, 2018 by J D Jung

Posted in Dark/Sordid/Bizarre, Horror, Modern Literary Fiction | Tagged cinema, Cuba, death, grief, Havana, Latin America, noir, surrealism | Comments Off