by envisionmg | Dec 1, 2016 | Jim Recommends
Getting tired of the interminable wait for Rogue One to be released? Yeah me too. Here are some tie in books (some more so than others) to help get you through. Ahsoka I’m not normally a fan of books that are all Jedi all the time. I’ve always found the...
by envisionmg | Jul 6, 2016 | Jim Recommends
I have this fear (some might say pathological fear) of going somewhere and not having something to read. With libraries, bookstores, and of course ebooks that really isn’t a problem. However, I went on vacation last week, and that brought about a further problem...
by envisionmg | May 11, 2016 | Fantasy, History, Jim Recommends
Once again my bedside table has gotten so full of books that my eyeglasses case and alarm clock are threatening to move to some other bedside table. Lets see what’s on there. 1916: A Global History by Keith Jeffery When I picked up this book originally I...
by envisionmg | Jan 5, 2015 | History, Jim Recommends
Doing a Russian spy themed Jim Recommends today. All of the books I’m recommend are perspective on espionage from the perspective of the Soviet Union. Spymaster -Tennent H. Bagley Spymaster is a unique book. It is the biography of Sergey A. Kondrashev, a major...
by envisionmg | Sep 8, 2014 | Fiction, Jim Recommends
Baudolino – Umberto Eco This is easily my favorite work by Umberto Eco and pretty high on my list of favorite works of historical fiction in general. The story is set in the late 12th century and early 13th century. The main character is Baudolino a boy...
by envisionmg | Jun 16, 2014 | Jim Recommends
The House of Medici: It’s Rise and Fall – Christopher HibbertThe Medici have been getting a lot of notoriety lately, both in fiction (for example The Medici Boy by John L’Heureux, and a whole slew of novels featuring Catherine De Medici) and in...
