by envisionmg | Aug 21, 2017 | Michelle Recommends, Non-fiction
“To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf’s river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history...
by envisionmg | Jun 19, 2017 | Fantasy, Michelle Recommends
Every Heart a Doorway – Seanan McGuire “Children have always disappeared from Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and...
by envisionmg | Apr 26, 2017 | Michelle Recommends, Poetry Collections
National Poetry Month is drawing to a close, but there are many more days left in the year to appreciate and celebrate poetry. Here are two collections that I’ve recently read and thought were knockouts: Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky With Exit Wounds “In...
by envisionmg | Jan 7, 2016 | Michelle Recommends, Non-fiction, Reading Intersections
This particular reading intersections topic is near and dear to my heart. You see, a few months ago I fell down this very rabbit hole, amassing a towering pile of non-fiction espionage titles, mostly those pinned to the heart of the Cold War. I have yet to see the...
by envisionmg | Jul 28, 2014 | Michelle Recommends
Peter Pan Must Die – John VerdonDave Gurney may be a retired police detective living in the Catskill mountains, but once a cop, always a cop, especially when a debt has been incurred to a former colleague, who shortly comes to collect. The investigation Gurney...
by envisionmg | Jul 7, 2014 | Fiction, Graphic Novels, Michelle Recommends, YA
Notes from the Internet Apocalypse – Wayne GladstoneHave you ever guffawed while reading? I mean, out of the blue: a burst of laughter, startling in the relative quiet. I did, with this book, not once or twice but so many times I lost count. This too-slim*...
