by envisionmg | Jan 21, 2016 | Michelle Reviews, Non-fiction
Who invented the flapper? Was it one of the equally infamous Fitzgerald’s? F. Scott so often gets the credit, whereas Zelda had her fingers on the pulse of what it was to be a flapper more intimately than her husband ever could. But, all right, if not one of the...
by envisionmg | Jan 19, 2016 | Reading Intersections
PBS has a new drama for lovers of history in general and Civil War buffs specifically. Start Here I’ll admit I’m not that into the Civil War when it comes to history but I’m intrigued by this not often seen side of the war. “This is not your...
by envisionmg | Jan 13, 2016 | Historical Fiction, Jim Reviews
Those who have read Downing’s Jack of Spies (check out a review of that one here) will be happy to hear that the next book in the series One Man’s Flag is just as good. It is now 1915, and as Europe goes up in flames in the second year of World War I, Jack...
by envisionmg | Jan 7, 2016 | Michelle Recommends, Non-fiction, Reading Intersections
This particular reading intersections topic is near and dear to my heart. You see, a few months ago I fell down this very rabbit hole, amassing a towering pile of non-fiction espionage titles, mostly those pinned to the heart of the Cold War. I have yet to see the...
by envisionmg | Dec 28, 2015 | Fiction, Rachel Reviews, Staff Review
When Miri was fifteen, and in love for the first time, a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving a community reeling. Against this backdrop of actual events that Judy Blume experienced in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and...
