by envisionmg | Aug 19, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Picks
Recommended by Jen “Two decades after the end of the Cold War, an average American guy in his twenties helped to bring down a top Russian spy. With no formal training, everything he knew about spying he’d learned from books, movies, video games, and TV....
by envisionmg | Aug 17, 2015 | Rachel Reviews, Staff Review, YA Fiction
Staff review by Rachel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a book that has been lingering on my tbr list for years, and I finally read it as my #ReadHarder pick for an independently published book. Unfortunately, it was kind of meh once I’d...
by envisionmg | Aug 14, 2015 | History, Jim Reviews
by Jim Abulafia’s The Great Sea has been on my bedside table for what seems like years. Actually it has been years. It is just exactly what it says it is a history of the Mediterranean from prehistory to 2010. The thing that has been stopping me is that, minus...
by envisionmg | Aug 10, 2015 | Fiction, Rachel Reviews, Staff Review
Staff review by Rachel Here’s the thing: I really loved Station Eleven (to the point where my review notes included such helpful phrases as “ZOMG” and “more, please”). After being completely underwhelmed by another post-apocalyptic foray...
by envisionmg | Aug 5, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Staff review by Rachel I don’t remember when “feminist” became such a buzz word in the pop culture strata during the last 3-5 years, but I do know that I started noticing it in my vocabulary a lot just last year. I may not have all my beliefs in...
