by envisionmg | Mar 14, 2016 | Michelle Reviews, Non-fiction, YA
You’re on the hunt for a lighthearted or uplifting book to read while winter wanes; your eager eye has wandered here, to this title by National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson, but I must tell you: Symphony for the City of the Dead is neither lighthearted, nor...
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 | Feb 23, 2016 | Non-fiction, What I'm Reading Now, YA
I met Franz Kafka over the body of a giant insect. It was, years upon years ago, an inauspicious introduction. And first impressions being what they are–misleading, mostly–I veered away from a second encounter, slipping quickly past the K’s (or the...
by envisionmg | Feb 15, 2016 | Non-fiction, Reading Intersections
After many years spent traveling and reporting on the considerable number of life-altering events of her era, Martha Gellhorn, war correspondent, passed away on this day in 1998, at the age of 89. Gellhorn began as a novelist before turning to journalism, had the...
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 | 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...
