by envisionmg | Jul 16, 2014 | Biography, Discovery List, Fiction, Non-fiction, Reading Lists
“BBC AMERICA’s new co-production drama series, The Musketeers, is set on the streets of seventeenth century Paris, where law and order is an idea more than a reality. In addition to being King Louis XIII’s personal bodyguards, Athos, Aramis and Porthos stand...
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 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 2, 2014 | Fiction, Patron Review
Reviewed by KimGage Dekker, who has lost his wife and young son in a car accident, meets Anna Miller, who has also lost a child at a grief group, and marry within the year. After a miscarriage, Anna can’t bear to try again so they decide to adopt. Conveniently...
by envisionmg | Jun 30, 2014 | Fiction, Jen Recommends
Gone With a Handsomer Man – Michael Lee WestBetrayed, arrested for assault with a dangerous Georgia peach, and framed for her fiance’s murder, Teeny Templeton’s battle to clear her name features a host of oddballs, Southern charm and poisonous...
by envisionmg | Jun 19, 2014 | Fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by Carol4.5 Stars. Remarkable historical fiction about a Southern family’s views on slavery pre-Civil War, and the relationship between one of the daughters, Sarah Grimké, and her slave, Handful. Grimké and her sister, Angelina, become passionate about...
