by envisionmg | Oct 19, 2016 | Jim Reviews
The Special Air Service (SAS) is the grandfather of all special forces units. Every time you read about the exploits of the SEALS or Green Berets you are looking at organizations built on the lessons of the SAS. Rogue Heroes is described as an authorized history, but...
by envisionmg | Oct 12, 2016 | Fiction, Tracy Reviews
I randomly picked up the audiobook The Hopefuls as I was finishing my shift on the circulation desk. I started listening to audiobooks a few years ago when my commute time nearly doubled, when I was at my previous job, and now I find it hard to be in the car without...
by envisionmg | Oct 5, 2016 | Jim Reviews
One of the big take-aways from reading Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes is how incredibly inept the CIA is. Weiner excoriates the CIA from top to bottom. Very few people escape his critical eye. One that does though was Antonio Mendez. You might know Mendez without...
by envisionmg | Sep 29, 2016 | Jim Reviews
Richard Rhodes’ Hell and Good Company is the title for the October History Book Group (meeting Oct 19 at 7) and being more organized that I usually am I set down to read it well in advance. I have always found the Spanish Civil War fascinating. For one its a...
by envisionmg | Sep 26, 2016 | Lit Links
“The meaning of words, and the way we used them, change all the time — and that’s OK with linguist John McWhorter of Columbia University. He writes about how the English language has evolved in his new book, Words on the Move: Why English Won’t — And...
