by envisionmg | Jan 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
Silk Roads is the History Book Group title for January. I tend to devour books on the silk road. There’s something about towns with names like Samarkand and Merv and Bukhara that just ignites my inner adventurer. That said, this is not that book. At least not...
by envisionmg | Jan 17, 2018 | YA Fiction
Cruel Prince – Holly Black “Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her...
by envisionmg | Jan 15, 2018 | Jim Reviews
I’ve always been fascinated by how commerce worked in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Like how do you move a hundred pounds of cloth from Yorkshire to Europe so you can sell it? How do you take out a loan when interest is considered a mortal sin? There is...
by envisionmg | Jan 12, 2018 | Non-fiction
Personal History – Katharine Graham “In this bestselling and widely acclaimed memoir, Katharine Graham, the woman who piloted the Washington Post through the scandals of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, tells her story—one that is extraordinary both for...
by envisionmg | Jan 10, 2018 | Coming Soon
There are so many good movies, novels, and nonfiction works coming out in 2018! Here are my most anticipated… January 9 Nice Try, Jane Sinner by Lianne Oelke After being expelled from high school, seventeen-year-old Jane signs up for a student-run reality show while...
