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...
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 | 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 | Oct 6, 2014 | Discovery List, Non-fiction, Reading Lists
Because you know you have always wanted one. Ok maybe not but if you are into either European, African or Middle Eastern history you should really check them out. They started out as a tribe of Turkish horsemen wandering around in Anatolia. While still basically a...
