by envisionmg | May 30, 2022 | Jim Recommends
30I have always loved birds of prey: hawks, falcons or eagles. Whether it was as child watching Red Tailed Hawks circle in the thermals over my grandfather’s farm or a cooper’s hawk crashing through the hedges of my backyard trying to chase down it’s...
by envisionmg | Mar 16, 2022 | Jim Recommends
The Irish Assassins by Julie Kavanagh One sunlit evening, May 6 l882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were funded...
by envisionmg | Mar 4, 2022 | Jim Recommends
Some of the books that I have setting on my nightstand waiting to be read The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo the Transformation of Western Civilization by Paul Strathern Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something happened that...
by envisionmg | Jan 28, 2022 | Jim Recommends, Jim Reviews
The Voyagers. The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed...
by envisionmg | Jan 7, 2022 | Jim Recommends
I stumbled on this series when I was reading Seeking Truths Through: Historians on Writing Historical Genre Fiction in Perspectives On History. Laury Silvers is a scholar in the medieval Islamic world. She had moved from academia to writing historical fiction because...
by envisionmg | Sep 23, 2021 | Jim Recommends
As you might expect from a librarian I am fascinated by how books are made throughout history and recently I have been reading a lot about how they were produced in the middle ages before the invention of the printing press. This is an off shoot of my last...
