by envisionmg | Jul 14, 2014 | Feature Series
What better way to kick-off Read This’ Musketeers week than with D’Artagnan’s introduction in Dumas’ The Three Musketeers, followed by his video intro from BBC America’s new series, The Musketeers (which, honestly, is the whole reason...
by envisionmg | Jul 11, 2014 | Feature Series, Fiction
Every summer has it’s anthem: that song (or two) you play over and over; a song that, when cooler weather settles in, brings back memories of bright and cloudless skies, warm nights, or maybe chocolate ice cream dripping down the sides of a waffle cone. The same...
by envisionmg | Jul 9, 2014 | Discovery List, Non-fiction, Reading Lists
A mysterious drifter and an ardent Japanese warrior both arrive in a town terrorized by criminals. Guided by The Bartender at the Horseless Horseman Saloon, the two join forces to bring down the corrupt reign of Nicola and his lady Alexandra.Remember Ethan Chandler...
by envisionmg | Jul 7, 2014 | Fiction, Graphic Novels, Michelle Recommends, YA
Notes from the Internet Apocalypse – Wayne GladstoneHave you ever guffawed while reading? I mean, out of the blue: a burst of laughter, startling in the relative quiet. I did, with this book, not once or twice but so many times I lost count. This too-slim*...
by envisionmg | Jul 4, 2014 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by JulieAbout the book: “Out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times – the improbable, intimate account of nine working-class boys from the American West who at the...