Simply put, you agree to provide an honest review an author's book in exchange for the author doing the same for you. This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Review Exchange Program, which is open to all authors and is completely free. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email. You and the author will discuss what sites you will post your review to and what kind of copy of the book you would like to receive (eBook, PDF, Word, paperback, etc.). The author will provide you with a free copy of their book in exchange for an honest review. If I write of it, it will include my substance abuse recovery story, too.This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Free Book Program, which is open to all readers and is completely free. The second act - blooming as a fitness pro in my fifties - has come and gone. 'The Curse.' ends at a turning point for me, after my mom's suicide. Thanks to great publishing you and I get to read and reread, live loud with me, and I am proud to present my conversation to you. That I can write in full sentences without making typos is enough editing for me. These short memoirs are a compilation of growing up in the 'burbs, military school for six years (just like my big brother), the office, the Fillmore, summer weekends on the beach in Southampton, and somehow finding the love of my life in a New York city swimming pool. Writing a book was dream fulfillment for me, not reflections on a 'long career.' A personal record of what went down in my little life both before and after the 'defining moment' - the car wreck in my last semester at Lehigh.

Within six months I bolted, managing about a year of hitchhiking through Europe, before succombing again to the lure of steady pay. The only thing I liked about it was the great view of New York harbor from my desk. They balked at my record so I took a so-called 'executive' office job in the dreaded big city. Preferring journalism to teaching I applied to grad school.

Eventually I earned my BA, majoring in English. Writing a book was dream fulfillment for me, not reflections on a 'long career.' A personal record of what went down in my little life both before and after the 'defining moment' - the car wreck in Pushed not to get too interested in writing by my mom, I entered Lehigh University, enrolling in civil engineering, but reluctantly. Pushed not to get too interested in writing by my mom, I entered Lehigh University, enrolling in civil engineering, but reluctantly.

The Curse of Iqbal by Robby Hamlin