by envisionmg | Oct 15, 2014 | Fantasy, Jim Reviews
Have you ever thought, “Why can’t there be more dragons in literature? Everything’s better with dragons”? Well, Naomi Novik’s His Majesty’s Dragon (first book in the Temeraire series) proves that to be true. Imagine a Patrick...
by envisionmg | Oct 8, 2014 | Fiction, Staff Reading, What I'm Reading Now, YA Fiction
Michelle here, former Book Monogamist. See, these days I have any number of fairly wildly different* books in progress at roundabout the same time, so, occasionally I’ll post an annotated list here on Read This. (And if you’re pages-deep in the middle of...
by envisionmg | Oct 6, 2014 | Discovery List, Non-fiction, Reading Lists
Because you know you have always wanted one. Ok maybe not but if you are into either European, African or Middle Eastern history you should really check them out. They started out as a tribe of Turkish horsemen wandering around in Anatolia. While still basically a...
by envisionmg | Oct 3, 2014 | Fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by Rachel One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is one of those books that I think everyone’s at least heard of – if not read themselves. It’s a familiar story, with both substantial literary themes and characters that have transcended the confines of the novel....
by envisionmg | Sep 29, 2014 | Historical Fiction, Jim Reviews
So I have a thing for History, Historical Fiction and Spies which means I’m always looking for books on a particular time period that combine those things. Over the past couple of years I’ve been reading a lot of non-fiction dealing with Elizabethan spies....
