by envisionmg | Apr 1, 2016 | Reading Lists, Staff Reading
Very rarely do I place library holds on new releases – either because I can’t predict when a book will find its way to me (when I’m in the middle of something else??) or because there just isn’t anything I absolutely have to read right away....
by envisionmg | Mar 30, 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. 598 Avars Lift the Siege of Tomis Part of the larger Balkan Campaign of Byzantine...
by envisionmg | Mar 28, 2016 | Non-fiction, Rachel Reviews
Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion....
by envisionmg | Mar 24, 2016 | Fiction, Jim Reviews
Trinity Six is a modern spy novel that hangs on the search for the fabled Sixth Man. In the 1930s, the NKVD (the predecessor to the KGB) recruited five spies at Trinity College, Cambridge. Now known as the Cambridge Five, these individuals– Kim Philby, Donald...
by envisionmg | Mar 21, 2016 | Fiction, Rachel Reviews, Staff Review
City on Fire is a behemoth of a novel – clocking in at over 900 pages – but it feels overwrought and excessive, as if author Garth Risk Hallberg simply wanted the world to know that he was capable of writing such an opus. The core action – which spans about seven...
