by envisionmg | Dec 16, 2015 | Fiction, Rachel Reviews
If it weren’t for the big-budget movie starring Matt Damon that just came out*, I don’t think Andy Weir’s The Martian would be flying off the shelves as much as it has – but that’s kind of a shame, really, because it’s super (ridiculously) good. And not just good in a...
by envisionmg | Dec 14, 2015 | Biography, Non-fiction, What I'm Reading Now
If only letters – written, sent with a stamp cornered at a crooked angle – were still a thing. As they are sadly not, instead of out of mailboxes, I’ve been pulling off of shelves piles of books crammed with page after page of posthumously published...
by envisionmg | Dec 10, 2015 | Fiction, Non-fiction, Reading Lists
You’ve already read Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whale Ship Essex, you’re this-close to making plans to see the film (starring Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy and Ben Whishaw), and the whole thing has provoked a...
by envisionmg | Dec 7, 2015 | History, Jim Reviews
People have been writing books about the Battle of Guadalcanal basically from the moment the island was secured. As the first US land offensive of World War II, this battle has attained almost mythical statues. Hornfischer in Neptune’s Inferno tries to edit some...
by envisionmg | Nov 30, 2015 | History, Michelle Reviews, Non-fiction, Staff Review
The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of the Vietnam War – Dan Hampton The Hunter Killers’ prologue reads a bit like a combined manufacturer’s manual for a...
