by envisionmg | Feb 27, 2015 | Jim Reviews, Non-fiction
I don’t normally read books with “A Natural History” in the title; for all that I love the natural world and history, I have a hard time getting excited about the life and times of, say, a Western Blue Throated Snow Toad (which I totally made up just...
by envisionmg | Feb 25, 2015 | Books to Movies, Discovery List, Fiction, Non-fiction, Reading Lists, YA Fiction
“A spy organization recruits an unrefined, but promising street kid into the agency’s ultra-competitive training program, just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.” So you’ve seen Kingsman: The Secret Service and have been...
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...
by envisionmg | Feb 4, 2015 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Today In History
I normally do four events for the Today in History reading list but I just couldn’t choose this time so I did five. Check out a day full of Emperors and presidents, Samurai and various kinds of rebels. We give you one non-fiction and one fictional work to go...
by envisionmg | Jan 23, 2015 | Biography, Discovery List, Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Reading Lists
SONS OF LIBERTY, the three-night, six-hour event, follows a defiant and radical group of young men–Sam Adams, John Adams, Paul Revere, John Hancock and Dr. Joseph Warren–as they band together in secrecy to change the course of history and make America a nation. [Text...
by envisionmg | Dec 22, 2014 | Non-fiction, Rachel Reviews, Staff Review
I’ve been accidentally reading quite a bit of non-fiction in the past couple of months, so here are some thoughts on four newish real-life releases (and one not-so-new at all). Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl’s Guide to Why It Often...
