by envisionmg | Feb 25, 2016 | Graphic Novels
Thanks to Lumberjanes and Ms. Marvel NOW! – which I tore through in hours – my love of graphic novels has exploded tenfold. Below are some of the current releases (and also some classics) that I’ve added to my TBR* pile within the last year. – Rachel Amazing...
by envisionmg | Feb 23, 2016 | Non-fiction, What I'm Reading Now, YA
I met Franz Kafka over the body of a giant insect. It was, years upon years ago, an inauspicious introduction. And first impressions being what they are–misleading, mostly–I veered away from a second encounter, slipping quickly past the K’s (or the...
by envisionmg | Feb 19, 2016 | Historical Fiction, History
You know how it is, you are finishing up reading a book and it hits you: “What am I going to read next?!” And it’s not that you don’t have other things to read, it’s that you have too much to read. Maybe you have piles of books on the...
by envisionmg | Feb 17, 2016 | History, Jim Reviews
If you have seen any of the flyers, you know the library has a new History Book Group that meets every third Wednesday of the month at 7:00pm. Massie’s Catherine the Great is this month’s book (which we will be discussing this evening; all are welcome)....
by envisionmg | Feb 15, 2016 | Non-fiction, Reading Intersections
After many years spent traveling and reporting on the considerable number of life-altering events of her era, Martha Gellhorn, war correspondent, passed away on this day in 1998, at the age of 89. Gellhorn began as a novelist before turning to journalism, had the...
