by envisionmg | Sep 30, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by Rachel At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it’s wildly different from...
by envisionmg | Sep 5, 2015 | Fiction, Non-fiction, Reading Lists
Words in Air: the Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell “Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that “you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend.” The feeling was mutual. Bishop said...
by envisionmg | Aug 19, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Picks
Recommended by Jen “Two decades after the end of the Cold War, an average American guy in his twenties helped to bring down a top Russian spy. With no formal training, everything he knew about spying he’d learned from books, movies, video games, and TV....
by envisionmg | Aug 5, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Staff review by Rachel I don’t remember when “feminist” became such a buzz word in the pop culture strata during the last 3-5 years, but I do know that I started noticing it in my vocabulary a lot just last year. I may not have all my beliefs in...
by envisionmg | Jul 17, 2015 | Jim Reviews, Non-fiction
by Jim If Marilyn Johnson’s name looks familiar you may, like me, remember her from her first book, This Book is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All. In fact, Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble basically...
by envisionmg | Jun 30, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by Rachel If you’re not a huge fan of either pop culture or history, microhistories can be a tough sell on their own; reading at length about the historical, political, economic, and cultural factors that both contributed to – and also occurred because of – a...
