by envisionmg | Aug 13, 2018 | Michelle Recommends
“In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France’s Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Packing up his enormous, 35,000‑volume personal library, choosing which...
by envisionmg | Jul 9, 2018 | Fiction, Michelle Recommends
My first inclination was to have !!! stand-in for my thoughts on this book. Exclamation marks are about as coherent as I’m likely to get when it comes to Helen Oyeyemi’s work. (Have you read her? If not, I’ll gladly wait here while you place a hold...
by envisionmg | Jul 2, 2018 | Fiction, Michelle Recommends
Collections often contain one or two stories in particular (or more, that’s always a wonderful bit of luck) that linger with their reader; a story or two that simultaneously satisfies and leaves one wanting more. In the case of All the Names They Used for God,...
by envisionmg | Jun 18, 2018 | Fiction, Michelle Recommends
I have a vague recollection of watching the Academy Award-winning film adaptation of this novel, possibly on television, and possibly not all the way through, start to finish, but certainly a long time ago. Likely it was for the best that I did not seek out the novel...
by envisionmg | May 21, 2018 | Michelle Recommends, Non-fiction
“Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks “talk” to the Nahua people of Mexico? Will A.I. researchers ever produce true human-machine dialogue? In this mesmerizing collection of essays, Daniel Tammet answers these and many other questions about the...
by envisionmg | May 16, 2018 | Fiction, Literary Fiction, Michelle Recommends
“In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child–not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers...
