by envisionmg | Mar 30, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by Chris Much like the 100th anniversary of the Titanic in 2012 inundated us with retrospectives and movie rereleases, expect a flood of books on the Lusitania for its centenary coming up in May. You may remember the Lusitania from the footnotes of your high...
by envisionmg | Mar 23, 2015 | Fiction, Rachel Reviews, Staff Review
Since seeing all three Swedish adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest) as well as David Fincher’s Oscar-winning adaptation, I’ve felt no real need to...
by envisionmg | Mar 16, 2015 | Historical Fiction, Staff Review
Living in the soot-stained darkness that was Pittsburgh in 1941, John is keen to enlist after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He doesn’t view it as a choice or an option; it’s something he has to do. There is one problem, one impediment to enlisting: his age....
by envisionmg | Feb 18, 2015 | Fantasy, Fiction, Michelle Reviews, Romance, Staff Review
James Hookbridge has been cursed to an eternity of waging war against sharp-toothed boys in the Neverland. Wholly weary of it, he has but one desire left to him, and that is for Death to find and take him at His earliest convenience. For a permanent ceasefire; the...
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...
by envisionmg | Oct 24, 2014 | Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Staff Review
By Jim In Toby Barlow’s second novel, Babayaga, he moves from the werewolves of his first book, Sharp Teeth, to extremely touchy witches, bumbling spies and 1950s Paris. I found the book fascinating for its mixture of qualities; it is humorous with dark...
