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 | Dec 20, 2012 | Fiction
‘Tis the season for Charlie Brown Christmas specials, but was anyone besides me unaware that there are more than 40 animated specials starring the good old Peanuts gang?! Bring the joy of these animated specials to a special someone’s coffee table this...
by envisionmg | Dec 17, 2012 | Fiction, Romance, Staff Review
I am not a voracious fiction reader – romantic fiction especially. But I was taken by the cover (the muted tones, the Grace Kelly look-a-like, the English back drop) as well as the title which added a touch of melancholy. It is London, 1960. When Jennifer Stirling...
by envisionmg | Nov 10, 2012 | Fiction
About the Book: After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season...
by envisionmg | Nov 1, 2012 | Fiction
If you’ve finished Fifty Shades of Grey and you’re looking for something similar to read, check out this booklist. We also have several other new booklists here.
by envisionmg | Oct 25, 2012 | Fiction, Historical Fiction
About the Book: Born in the squalid Irish slums of Brooklyn, in the first year of the twentieth century, Willie Sutton came of age at a time when banks were out of control. If they weren’t taking brazen risks, causing millions to lose their jobs and homes, they...
