by envisionmg | Apr 20, 2017 | Today In History
In our Today In History Reading List feature, we take the events of a particular day in history and try to give you a work of fiction and a work of non-fiction relating to those events. 1653 Oliver Cromwell Dissolves the Rump Parliament At the end of the English Civil...
by envisionmg | Apr 18, 2017 | Graphic Novels, Staff Review
As an avid reader of DC Universe comic books and the wide array of heroes that they cover, I had high hopes for All Star Batman Volume 1: My Own Worst Enemy by Scott Snyder. Batman, being one of DC’s most popular heroes, has multiple storylines in the current...
by envisionmg | Apr 12, 2017 | DVD/Movie, Sci - Fi
The Star Wars franchise started in 1977 with the release of Episode IV: A New Hope. Since then there have eight additional movies, with more in the works. There are several excellent animated shows that follow the core films. These cartoons are a great way to...
by envisionmg | Apr 10, 2017 | Jim Reviews
So what is the meaning of a world map? That is the deceptively complicated question that Brotton presents in his A History of the World in Twelve Maps. They are not really useful for navigation. If a person needs to find the best way to get to New York City they...
by envisionmg | Apr 6, 2017 | Fiction, Staff Reading
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti (a local author; she also wrote The Good Thief) “Samuel Hawley isn’t like the other fathers in Olympus, Massachusetts. A loner who spent years living on the run, he raised his beloved daughter, Loo, on the road,...
