by envisionmg | Nov 3, 2014 | History, Jim Reviews
I have to confess I used to hate the Italian Renaissance. This is largely because my only exposure to it was an art history class in which the teacher would (when not talking about the wonders of two point perspective) flash slides of paintings up on a wall and say...
by envisionmg | Oct 15, 2014 | Fantasy, Jim Reviews
Have you ever thought, “Why can’t there be more dragons in literature? Everything’s better with dragons”? Well, Naomi Novik’s His Majesty’s Dragon (first book in the Temeraire series) proves that to be true. Imagine a Patrick...
by envisionmg | Sep 29, 2014 | Historical Fiction, Jim Reviews
So I have a thing for History, Historical Fiction and Spies which means I’m always looking for books on a particular time period that combine those things. Over the past couple of years I’ve been reading a lot of non-fiction dealing with Elizabethan spies....
by envisionmg | Sep 15, 2014 | History, Jim Reviews
Like many people, I first read about the Hundred Years War in Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (which I got totally by accident because I mixed the title up with A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America which I was...
by envisionmg | Jun 6, 2014 | Historical Fiction, Jim Reviews
I’m normally terrible about staying on top of my favorite authors and genres. I’ll find out about a book months after it’s been released and be mystified as to how I could have missed it. But this time was different. David Downing’s (author of...
