by envisionmg | Dec 10, 2015 | Fiction, Non-fiction, Reading Lists
You’ve already read Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whale Ship Essex, you’re this-close to making plans to see the film (starring Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy and Ben Whishaw), and the whole thing has provoked a...
by envisionmg | Nov 12, 2015 | Reading Lists
A selection of these and other titles on France can be found on display just beyond the New Book Room. Fiction: Murder in the Marais (An Aimee Leduc Investigation) by Cara Black “Private investigator Aimée Leduc must decrypt a digitized photo from the 1940s. But...
by envisionmg | Sep 14, 2015 | Reading Intersections, Reading Lists
When we first conceived of the Reading Intersections feature, one of the first books that came to mind was Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. The thing was, I didn’t want to use the too-broad theme of private schools when selecting other titles to pair with...
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 | Jul 15, 2015 | Reading Intersections, Reading Lists
Fall down the rabbit hole with us! In our Reading Intersections series, we’ll give you a place to start and where to go next, piling titles on until you’re neck-deep in books, graphic novels and movies on a similar theme. Hold onto your hats and holsters,...
by envisionmg | Apr 1, 2015 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Reading Lists
May 7 will be the 100 anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania (see Chris’s review of Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy and the End of the Edwardian Age) by German U-20 off the Irish coast. Like a lot of anniversaries of major historical events this one has spawned...
