by envisionmg | Jul 16, 2021 | Staff Reading
My current TBR stack is a little unusual for me – two non-fiction and only one fiction. I love mysteries, and I have Donna Leon’s latest, Transient Desires, right at the top of my stack. About the book: “In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti...
by envisionmg | Jul 2, 2021 | Non-fiction, Staff Reading
1774 The Long Year of Revolution – Mary Beth Norton “In this masterly work of history, the culmination of more than four decades of research and thought, Mary Beth Norton looks at the sixteen months leading up to the clashes at Lexington and Concord in...
by envisionmg | May 14, 2021 | Staff Reading
Fifty Words for Rain – Asha Lemmie Sue’s comment: I really liked this! “Kyoto, Japan, 1948. “Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist.” Such is eight-year-old Noriko “Nori” Kamiza’s first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned...
by envisionmg | May 12, 2021 | Staff Reading
The Yellow Wife – Sedeqa Johnson Lorraine’s thoughts: I liked it but was wishing for a little more historical information. Perhaps I didn’t care for the author’s writing style? I would like to try another of her books. “Born on a...
by envisionmg | May 3, 2021 | Fiction, Staff Reading, Video Game
Next up on Chris’ to be read list: Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders “February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile,...
by envisionmg | Apr 30, 2021 | Non-fiction, Staff Reading
Abe : Abraham Lincoln in His Times – David Reynolds “From one of the great historians of nineteenth-century America, a revelatory and enthralling new biography of Lincoln, many years in the making, that brings him to life within his turbulent age. David...
