by envisionmg | Sep 3, 2014 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by Jim I’ve been reading a lot of history lately so I decided to take a break and indulge one of my other interests: cooking. Part of the reason Sous Chef: 24 Hours On The Line caught my eye (besides being bright red and having a knife on the cover) was...
by envisionmg | Aug 25, 2014 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed By Jim As part of my preparation for the post on the 100th Anniversary of World War I: Reading List I had been doing a lot of reading about the start of the war and the early days of the war. One thing that struck me was repeated mention of the fact that the...
by envisionmg | Aug 20, 2014 | Adventure, Historical Fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by Michelle and Jim This is the story of how Jim came to read Traitor’s Blade: Michelle, after one chapter: Dude, this is basically Three Musketeers fanfiction! Jim: Oh? Are there swords? Michelle: Yes! And magic! Okay, that’s not very Three...
by envisionmg | Jul 18, 2014 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by JimEric Jager’s Blood Royal may not take place at the time of Dumas’ The Three Musketeers (in fact, it takes place 200 years before in 1407) but it would be a good choice for anyone who likes Dumas or French history. It has street fights,...
by envisionmg | Jul 4, 2014 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by JulieAbout the book: “Out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times – the improbable, intimate account of nine working-class boys from the American West who at the...
by envisionmg | Jun 25, 2014 | Children's Literature, Staff Review
Reviewed by RachelBy all accounts, Neil Gaiman’s children’s book Coraline is a strange and creepy piece of fiction. It features another set of parents for its protagonist, Coraline Jones, who live through the hallway behind the door that goes nowhere. Copies of her...
