Jim Alkon

Motivational Guide Helps Seniors Live Happier, Healthier, Longer Life

As personal coach and master fitness trainer David Emerson Frost aptly notes, nearly every one of the country’s 75 million Baby Boomers — those born between 1946 and 1964 — have “a chink in our armor, a joint that isn’t quite what it was, a little less gumption to keep…

Jim AlkonJuly 12, 2024

Business Recommended

Meet the Ultimate Guide to Building Successful Digital Businesses

It’s all about mindset. Well, a lot of it is — if you are planning to start your own business. As Mario Peshev notes in his comprehensive and insightful MBA Disrupted: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Bootstrapping $1M+ Digital Businesses, the idea is to work “on” your business, not “in” it.…

Jim AlkonJune 27, 2024

Recommended

One Lawyer’s Fight Against Corporate Greed

It’s an old adage that the only ones who really win lawsuits are the lawyers. Maybe it’s because they are part of a system tilted more toward rewarding the ancillary participants, hired hands and corporate interests than the vulnerable, innocent victims who are smothered by the process. That’s not lost…

Jim AlkonJune 21, 2024

The Remains of the Corps Volume II The March Across Samar by Will Remain

Fiction Recommended

Marine’s Account of Battle in Philippines Exposes War’s Realities

I wrote in a 2020 review that The Remains of the Corps Volume I: Ivy and the Crossing was one of the most unique and innovative books I had read in a long time. It was the military history of a family of Marines, the Remains, taking place during World…

Jim AlkonJune 20, 2024

Recommended Thrillers

Provocative Thriller Blurs Lines Between Desire and Control

“The world runs on fetishes, things we like and believe in. The corporate world spends billions to promote them. They call it brand marketing. They show, we trigger: Mercedes, Nike, Apple, the Golden Arches, IBM, Amazon, Google, Coca-Cola, Netflix, Starbucks. An endless list. Relentless.” That’s one way of looking at…

Jim AlkonJune 20, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph After Historic Football Plane Crash

Craig T. Greenlee was a versatile college football player who, in 1969 after his sophomore year at Marshall University in West Virginia, lost his desire for the game and quit the team. That decision saved his life. On Nov. 14, 1970, the plane carrying the Marshall football team back from…

Jim AlkonJune 14, 2024

Hard Bargain by Donald G Denihan with Jon Land

Nonfiction Recommended

Near-Death Experiences Provide Author a New Lease on Life

“Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.” That nugget was the last item in a list of 45 life lessons offered by Regina Brett, legendary newspaper writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. It’s also the last sentence in Donald G. Denihan’s new book Hard Bargain (Stillwater…

Jim AlkonJune 13, 2024

Fiction Recommended

Girl’s Search for Abducted Father in Prohibition-Era Coming-of-Age

It’s on the very first page of The Last Tale of Norah Bow by J.P. White. Fourteen-year-old Norah is told by her father that they share a “demon switch,” whatever that is. Readers don’t have to wait long to find out: The demon switch means she can do hard things…

Jim AlkonJune 10, 2024

Better Self Nonfiction Recommended

Perseverance and Integrity Behind the Scenes of the Music Industry

Tim James is the writer of, among other standards, the song “My List,” recorded by Toby Keith. It has been on albums that sold more than 11 million copies. As James himself says, “Not bad for a Robitussin-selling, basketball-playing, 40-year-old guy that nobody had faith in.” Yes indeed, and remarkably,…

Jim AlkonMay 23, 2024

Children's Books Recommended

Swing for the Fences in Entertaining Children’s Book Written in Haiku Form

There’s something special about capturing the excitement and anticipation of a young child about to embark on a new experience. In the case of My First Red Sox Game by Christine Connelly, well, you guessed it, it’s about that child going with her dad to their first baseball game together.…

Jim AlkonMay 17, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Gripping Memoir About Adoptee’s Lifelong Search for Identity and Connection

“I’ve always been grateful that Grandma treated you kids like you were real grandchildren.” Those words, while meant as a compliment, go a long way in understanding the lens through which adopted children must see the world and manage their emotions. They were uttered by the mother of a young…

Jim AlkonMay 7, 2024

Fiction Recommended

Man’s Mystical Journey to Amend the Past in Bohemian Ibiza

There’s a passage in author Justin Kurian’s ambitious novel The Canticle of Ibiza where John, who has abandoned his life in New York as a high-flying financial whiz to seek answers on the mystical island of Ibiza, Spain, explains to a budding love interest, Diana, how he ditched his previous…

Jim AlkonMay 7, 2024

Fiction Recommended

In Atmospheric New Thriller, Family Learns Their Past Is Not So Easily Put to Rest

“I almost forgot. There’s a caretaker who lives on the property. It’s part of the deal, he comes with the house.” The realtor, talking to the Keane family of Boston who had just acquired the strange old house on the hill in Littleton, NH, built by the legendary Mr. Goodpasture,…

Jim AlkonMay 7, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Unforgettable Story About the Power of Love Through the Eyes of the Man Who Lived It

“We didn’t grow old together. We stayed young together.” Who’s to say — was Marc Gellman’s fairytale love affair with Barbara really that extraordinary? They were married for 40 years. She died of cancer just short of her 60th birthday. He was from Brooklyn, she from the Bronx. They met…

Jim AlkonMay 6, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Break Out of Your Comfort Zone & Find True Success With the Help of This Master Life Coach

Don’t get caught up in the benchmarks and dreams of others. If The Success Guidebook: How to Visualize, Actualize and Amplify You by Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino teaches us anything, it’s that success is a personal thing. Hamilton-Guarino, a master life coach and founder of The Best Ever You Network with millions…

Jim AlkonApril 23, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Blind, Deaf Athlete’s Inspiring Story of Hope and Excellence in Sports and Life

As Kevin Frost describes his many incredible athletic accomplishments in his memoir Deaf Blind Champion, he notes what his speed skating mentor, Coach Mike, did to make some of these feats even possible. “He never trained me as a person with disabilities,” writes Frost. “He trained me as a high-performance…

Jim AlkonApril 19, 2024

Jim Alkon

Motivational Guide Helps Seniors Live Happier, Healthier, Longer Life

Meet the Ultimate Guide to Building Successful Digital Businesses

One Lawyer’s Fight Against Corporate Greed

Marine’s Account of Battle in Philippines Exposes War’s Realities

Provocative Thriller Blurs Lines Between Desire and Control

Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph After Historic Football Plane Crash

Near-Death Experiences Provide Author a New Lease on Life

Girl’s Search for Abducted Father in Prohibition-Era Coming-of-Age

Perseverance and Integrity Behind the Scenes of the Music Industry

Swing for the Fences in Entertaining Children’s Book Written in Haiku Form

Gripping Memoir About Adoptee’s Lifelong Search for Identity and Connection

Man’s Mystical Journey to Amend the Past in Bohemian Ibiza

In Atmospheric New Thriller, Family Learns Their Past Is Not So Easily Put to Rest

Unforgettable Story About the Power of Love Through the Eyes of the Man Who Lived It

Break Out of Your Comfort Zone & Find True Success With the Help of This Master Life Coach

Blind, Deaf Athlete’s Inspiring Story of Hope and Excellence in Sports and Life

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