by envisionmg | Mar 16, 2015 | Historical Fiction, Staff Review
Living in the soot-stained darkness that was Pittsburgh in 1941, John is keen to enlist after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He doesn’t view it as a choice or an option; it’s something he has to do. There is one problem, one impediment to enlisting: his age....
by envisionmg | Mar 11, 2015 | Historical Fiction, Jim Reviews
By Jim David Flusfeder’s novel John the Pupil has been repeatedly compared to Umberto Eco’s fiction. The similarity is definitely there. The story is about John, a young Franciscan monk in 1267 Oxford studying under the English philosopher Roger Bacon...
by envisionmg | Mar 6, 2015 | History, Jim Reviews
I read a lot of history; I review a lot of history books; I read a lot of history book reviews; and I read a lot of book catalogs selling history books so not a lot slips by me. However this is a case of that happening, and I am simultaneously embarrassed (for missing...
by envisionmg | Feb 27, 2015 | Jim Reviews, Non-fiction
I don’t normally read books with “A Natural History” in the title; for all that I love the natural world and history, I have a hard time getting excited about the life and times of, say, a Western Blue Throated Snow Toad (which I totally made up just...
by envisionmg | Feb 25, 2015 | Books to Movies, Discovery List, Fiction, Non-fiction, Reading Lists, YA Fiction
“A spy organization recruits an unrefined, but promising street kid into the agency’s ultra-competitive training program, just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.” So you’ve seen Kingsman: The Secret Service and have been...
