by envisionmg | Mar 30, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by Chris Much like the 100th anniversary of the Titanic in 2012 inundated us with retrospectives and movie rereleases, expect a flood of books on the Lusitania for its centenary coming up in May. You may remember the Lusitania from the footnotes of your high...
by envisionmg | Mar 25, 2015 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Today In History
The Today In History Reading List is a list of books, fiction and non-fiction, to go along with some of the events that happened today. 421 Traditional Date Given for the Founding of Venice No one knows the actual founding date of Venice but it is traditionally held...
by envisionmg | Mar 23, 2015 | Fiction, Rachel Reviews, Staff Review
Since seeing all three Swedish adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest) as well as David Fincher’s Oscar-winning adaptation, I’ve felt no real need to...
by envisionmg | Mar 19, 2015 | Jen Recommends
I Capture the Castle – Dodi Smith “I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Honing her writing skills, she fills her notebooks with sharply...
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....
