by envisionmg | Nov 20, 2015 | Jim Reviews, Non-fiction, Staff Review
One Soldier’s War is the memoir of Babchenko’s service as an infantryman in the Russian army during the First and Second Chechen Wars in the 1990s. Both these wars grew out of attempts by Chechnya to break away from the Russian Federation. Fresh out of college,...
by envisionmg | Nov 4, 2015 | Graphic Novels, Rachel Reviews, Staff Review
Reviewed by Rachel Lumberjanes, vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson and Grace Ellis “Friendship to the max! At Miss Quinzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s camp for hardcore lady-types, things are not what they seem. Three-eyed...
by envisionmg | Oct 22, 2015 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Jim Reviews, Staff Review
By Jim I admit I picked up this book because of the cover. I first saw it on the new book display by the circulation desk in the lobby (if you haven’t checked that display out you really should, there are a lot of gems there). And everything on the cover of The...
by envisionmg | Oct 7, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
By Jim Mezrich’s Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs is a hard book to categorize, which says to my mind that it will appeal to a wide variety of readers. It could be read as a history of Russia in the 1990s and early 2000s; it could be read as...
by envisionmg | Sep 30, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by Rachel At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it’s wildly different from...
by envisionmg | Sep 8, 2015 | Fiction, Staff Review
Staff review by Rachel Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies, but this one is unique even by Detroit’s standards: half-boy, half-deer, somehow fused. The cops nickname him “Bambi,” but as stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the...
