by envisionmg | Mar 17, 2016 | History, Reading Lists
Over the past year or so I’ve noticed an uptick in books being published about Irish history. It only occurred to me last week that the reason for this uptick was probably the up coming hundredth anniversary of the Easter Rising (April 24-29). Given the holiday...
by envisionmg | Mar 14, 2016 | Michelle Reviews, Non-fiction, YA
You’re on the hunt for a lighthearted or uplifting book to read while winter wanes; your eager eye has wandered here, to this title by National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson, but I must tell you: Symphony for the City of the Dead is neither lighthearted, nor...
by envisionmg | Mar 10, 2016 | History, Jim Reviews
The History Book Group will be discussing Basilica by R. A. Scotti on March 16 at 7:00. Join us every third Wednesday of the month for great history discussions. Scotti’s Basilica is the story of a brilliant piece of architecture and the trials and tribulations...
by envisionmg | Mar 8, 2016 | Michelle Reviews, Non-fiction
There was a bit of a line in Jennifer Senior’s New York Times review of The Man With the Golden Typewriter that drew my eye back to read it again, because, I suppose, I was trying to imagine what a giant stalk of catnip might look like, if it would be...
by envisionmg | Mar 3, 2016 | History, Reading Lists
Perhaps you’ve seen Hamilton: An American Musical? Or read Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton, the biographical seed of inspiration that grew into the musical? Or perhaps the buzz has simply piqued your interest? From biographies of people like Burr, Lafayette,...
