by envisionmg | Jan 16, 2013 | Fiction, Mystery
Film enthusiast, Ludovic, purchases a number of films at an estate sale. One of the films is unmarked and Ludovic hopes that it will be a rare find. After watching the film in his home theater, Ludovic finds that he has gone blind. He grabs his phone and calls the...
by envisionmg | Jan 9, 2013 | Fiction
Reviewed by Alan In the graphic novel “Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City,” Quebecois cartoonist Guy Delisle offers us a graphic (anti-travel) travel book. No, this is not Fodor’s -Delisle is a cartoonist, not a travel writer. And he was not just visiting...
by envisionmg | Jan 7, 2013 | Anticipated Fiction
Paring down the list of 2013 titles I’m highly anticipating was difficult and managed with much indecision regarding what to include here. Here’s what I came up with: The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman (June) “It began for our...
by envisionmg | Jan 2, 2013 | Biography, Non-fiction, Staff Review
“I hope we’re as good friends when you finish your book as we are now,” Ben Bradlee, the legendary former executive editor of The Washington Post, told Jeff Himmelman in March 2010. “But I don’t give a [expletive deleted] what you write about me.” No author could make...
by envisionmg | Dec 22, 2012 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
I first took notice of this book when I saw the author, actor Frank Langella interviewed on The Tavis Smiley Show to discuss his memoir of the remarkable people encountered over his fifty year career. He presents them, not as they might have described themselves, but...