Category: MY NOVELS

PATIENT X, a mystery
LITTLE ITALY, a mystery

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Trump’s Moving to Venezuela! by Art Smukler, MD, author and psychiatrist

by artsmuklermd, posted in MY NOVELS, Politics, Psychiatry, Self Examination, World events, a psychological view

Great news. Trump announced on X to Elon Musk that if he loses the election he’s moving to Venezuela. 

That’s even more of an incentive to vote for Kamala! 

Maybe Trump will hire some illegal aliens to teach him how to speak Spanish? Oh no. So sad. He’s due for sentencing in his 26 count hush money conviction in September. Not much time to learn Spanish, but I hear they have excellent classes to help the incarcerated prepare for life on the outside. Buena Suerta in la prison, Donald. 

Thanks for following,  Arturo

Check out my psychological suspense novels – good reading for in or out of prison. 

Inside The Mind Of A Psychiatrist – A Reading Club, by Art Smukler, MD

by artsmuklermd, posted in MY NOVELS, Psychiatry, Self Examination, Writing

A great piece in The Sunday LA Times, front page, column one, caught my eye. Shhh. The Silver Lake Reading Club. Every Tuesday from 6 pm till 8:30 pm at Lamill Coffee, a few dozen people pay $17 for the pleasure of sitting quietly and reading. Helen Bui, the reading club’s founder, and daughter of Vietnamese refugees, supplies pastries, coffee and tea to the lucky readers. 

You bring your own book and get a chance to enter the author’s world without any distractions other than sometimes hearing a page turn. There’s a 15 minute break to get a chance to share. 

Who would have thought that our world has become so chaotic that people would flock to a place where silence prevails and fantasy reigns?

As a pre-teen I hung out at a nearby library in Philadelphia and obsessively perused the stacks looking for my next reading adventure. My obsession to read continues – untreatable and an integral part of my life. When was the last time I didn’t have a book to read? Never.

I’m rereading Tom Wolfe’s, A Man In Full. It’s still engaging, riveting, and so well written, even after 25 years.

Have a good read, Art

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