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...
by envisionmg | Feb 18, 2015 | Fantasy, Fiction, Michelle Reviews, Romance, Staff Review
James Hookbridge has been cursed to an eternity of waging war against sharp-toothed boys in the Neverland. Wholly weary of it, he has but one desire left to him, and that is for Death to find and take him at His earliest convenience. For a permanent ceasefire; the...
