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Tag Archives: grief
The Old Man – The Old Man
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Do all the lovely memories fade first? Do all the faces of the people you held dearest disappear…and all the horrible ones stay nailed into your skull?” When I was asked to review The Old … Continue reading
All We Trust – Gregory Galloway
(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
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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty-Akwaeke Emezi
(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
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An UnderratedRead Revisited: 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Revisited
Tagged cinema, Cuba, death, grief, Havana, Latin America, surrealism
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Cenotaphs – Rich Marcello
(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
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An Ambiguous Grief – Dominique Hunter
(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
There Has to Be a Knife – Adnan Khan
(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
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Dark/Sordid/Bizarre, Horror, Modern Literary Fiction
Tagged cinema, Cuba, death, grief, Havana, Latin America, noir, surrealism
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