by envisionmg | Feb 22, 2017 | Jen Recommends
The Time In Between was adapted into a Spanish-language series for Netflix (see trailer below). Jen’s notes: The series is a close adaptation of the novel, and filled with beautiful scenery and fashion. “The inspiring international bestseller of a...
by envisionmg | Feb 13, 2017 | Literary Fiction, Readalike
If you’ve read Emily Fridlund’s History of Wolves: “Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world....
by envisionmg | Feb 10, 2017 | Rachel Reviews, Reading Lists
Michael Eric Dyson’s Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America came out last month and, let me just tell you, it is making me seriously think about my privilege as an upper-middle-class white lady, living in a liberal part of a liberal state. In an...
by envisionmg | Feb 1, 2017 | Jim Reviews
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. 1327 Edward III Crowned King of England Due to colossal misrule, Edward II was...
by envisionmg | Jan 30, 2017 | Lit Links
“25 of the Most Exciting Book Releases for 2017” | via Vulture “As the episode progresses, each character gets a chance to wink broadly at the camera. Then the Doyle stories are stuck back into the blender, and the plot hurries on.” |...
