by envisionmg | Dec 22, 2014 | Non-fiction, Rachel Reviews, Staff Review
I’ve been accidentally reading quite a bit of non-fiction in the past couple of months, so here are some thoughts on four newish real-life releases (and one not-so-new at all). Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl’s Guide to Why It Often...
by envisionmg | Dec 19, 2014 | Biography, Non-fiction, What I'm Reading Now
The name William Marshal was not wholly unknown to me going into Asbridge’s The Greatest Knight, but the details of Marshal’s life, those were very sketchy indeed. I’ve only just started the second section of the biography, which opens in 1166,...
by envisionmg | Dec 17, 2014 | Non-fiction, Poetry Collections, Staff Picks
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Hector Tobar “A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist relates the experiences of the thirty-three men who endured entrapment beneath thousands of feet of...
by envisionmg | Dec 15, 2014 | Fiction
By Jim and Michelle We all do it (even though we’ve been admonished not to). Standing there looking at shelf after shelf of books we automatically are drawn to the covers. More importantly publishers know we do and create some really gorgeous covers to tempt us....
by envisionmg | Dec 8, 2014 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Today In History
We’ve got some music and musicians and big political events on this day in history. Enjoy a nice reading list with a work of fiction and a work of non-fiction commemorating them. 1813 The Premier of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony The Seventh Symphony was...
