by envisionmg | Jun 5, 2017 | Non-fiction, Reading Lists
A quarterly roundup of the latest updates to our science collection with a spotlight on: Nature The Earth The Ground Beneath Us: From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness, What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are (March 2017) How many of us have given much...
by envisionmg | May 17, 2017 | Historical Fiction, Non-fiction, The Literary World
Jane is a household name in the literary world, owing in no small part to Eyre and Austen. Indulge your love for both ladies with these forthcoming titles. The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn (Available in July) “Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this...
by envisionmg | Jan 23, 2017 | Michelle Reviews, Non-fiction
The full title of Sobel’s latest is The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars. What the book contains is what it says on the tin, mostly. I would add emphasis to one word in the subtitle: How. I would...
by envisionmg | Jul 15, 2016 | Non-fiction
An out-of-the-corner-of-my-eye glance at a line-up of books focused quickly when one in particular – it’s cover full of two animated faces, the title writ large, a particularly urgent newspaper headline – caught my attention. I thought it was a...
by envisionmg | Apr 13, 2016 | Non-fiction, Reading Intersections
Bakewell’s new book on Sartre, Beauvoir, and Company blinked onto my radar several months ago and stayed there, but it wasn’t until I read The Bookseller’s interview with the author, and then a Beauvoir-centric excerpt, that the book went from under...
by envisionmg | Mar 28, 2016 | Non-fiction, Rachel Reviews
Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion....
