by envisionmg | May 6, 2014 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by Chris An engrossing biography of one of the most powerful American politicians of the 20th century. Despite never holding elected office, Moses weilded absolute power over urban planning and development in New York City from the 1920s – 1960s....
by envisionmg | May 2, 2014 | Non-fiction, Rachel Reviews, Staff Review
Reviewed by Rachel Fast Food Nation, a journalistic exploration into fast food – or what author Eric Schlosser terms the “dark side of the all-american meal” – turned 13 this year… and its age is showing. There’s no doubt in my mind...
by envisionmg | Apr 22, 2014 | Fantasy, Staff Review
Reviewed by Drew Let’s face it, magic schools where callow youth learn to be wizards and accidentally end up saving the world a few times are the bacon of fantasy literature – delicious but overused. We’ve Potter’d around Hogwarts, can Kwothe the University’s...
by envisionmg | Apr 9, 2014 | Staff Review
As someone who loves the swashbuckling fiction of authors like Alexander Dumas, Rafael Sabatini and Arturo Pérez-Reverte it seemed like reading a non-fiction work on war in the period the books are set in would be a good idea. That is what brought me to Lauro...
by envisionmg | Mar 27, 2014 | Staff Review
Under the Wide and Starry Sky is dual historical fiction biography of Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Osbourne. The story begins with Fanny arriving in Antwerp with her children fleeing her philandering husband in America. A lot of time is spent with Fanny before...
by envisionmg | Jan 4, 2014 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Like many people, my to-read pile of books sets on my dresser next to my bed (unlike most people, I hope, the finished books are on a pile on the floor next to my bed) and seems to be growing faster than I can read. In this pile are a wide range of things: fantasy,...
