by envisionmg | Aug 26, 2016 | Jim Reviews
I love reading all things espionage (as you may have noticed if you have read my other reviews). Fiction or non-fiction, it does not matter. My fascination with it rests in the fact that it is kind of the dark side of what I do for a living: searching for information....
by envisionmg | Aug 24, 2016 | 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. 79 BC – Mount...
by envisionmg | Aug 22, 2016 | Mystery, Tracy Reviews
“On a foggy summer night, eleven people–ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter–depart Martha’s Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors...
by envisionmg | Aug 17, 2016 | What I'm Reading Now
Add Robert Macfarlane’s Landmarks to the pantheon of books that are best read slowly so that every word, every image, every bit of new knowledge might be savored to the fullest. In the grand scheme of categories and genres and other restrictive labels, Landmarks...
by envisionmg | Aug 15, 2016 | History, Jim Reviews
I grew up in the post-Vietnam War generation. I always had a feeling, as a child, that I wasn’t supposed to ask questions about the war. Prior to college my only knowledge of the war was a) we lost and b) it was bad. When I took classes on the war in college, I...
