by envisionmg | Mar 8, 2016 | Michelle Reviews, Non-fiction
There was a bit of a line in Jennifer Senior’s New York Times review of The Man With the Golden Typewriter that drew my eye back to read it again, because, I suppose, I was trying to imagine what a giant stalk of catnip might look like, if it would be...
by envisionmg | Jan 21, 2016 | Michelle Reviews, Non-fiction
Who invented the flapper? Was it one of the equally infamous Fitzgerald’s? F. Scott so often gets the credit, whereas Zelda had her fingers on the pulse of what it was to be a flapper more intimately than her husband ever could. But, all right, if not one of the...
by envisionmg | Nov 30, 2015 | History, Michelle Reviews, Non-fiction, Staff Review
The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of the Vietnam War – Dan Hampton The Hunter Killers’ prologue reads a bit like a combined manufacturer’s manual for a...
by envisionmg | May 26, 2015 | Michelle Reviews, Non-fiction, Staff Picks, Staff Review
When talking about books (or films, or music) I do my level best to steer clear of certain adjectives that–since the dawn of time and/or the creation of the word–have been repeatedly beaten against a very sharp, very large rock. Any nuance these...
by envisionmg | Feb 18, 2015 | Fantasy, Fiction, Michelle Reviews, Romance, Staff Review
James Hookbridge has been cursed to an eternity of waging war against sharp-toothed boys in the Neverland. Wholly weary of it, he has but one desire left to him, and that is for Death to find and take him at His earliest convenience. For a permanent ceasefire; the...
by envisionmg | Feb 9, 2015 | Michelle Reviews, Non-fiction, Staff Reading
We all have in mind a sense of fairy tale: that story type and what it’s composed of, along with favorite examples. Certain names no doubt spring immediately to mind: Grimm, Anderson, Disney. You’ll encounter those familiar stories, names, and more in...
