by envisionmg | Nov 21, 2017 | Jim Recommends, What I'm Reading Now
I fell down a bit of a Holy Roman Empire reading rabbit hole (as one does). It started with an obligatory read of a Martin Luther biography and went from there. Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet by Lyndal Roper. Ok technically I’ve already read this book. This...
by envisionmg | Aug 17, 2016 | What I'm Reading Now
Add Robert Macfarlane’s Landmarks to the pantheon of books that are best read slowly so that every word, every image, every bit of new knowledge might be savored to the fullest. In the grand scheme of categories and genres and other restrictive labels, Landmarks...
by envisionmg | Jul 8, 2016 | What I'm Reading Now
The title of this post is declarative, when in fact it should appear a bit more harried: italicized, containing a completely capitalized word, punctuated by both a question mark and an exclamation point. What am I NOT reading right now?! is more representative of the...
by envisionmg | Feb 23, 2016 | Non-fiction, What I'm Reading Now, YA
I met Franz Kafka over the body of a giant insect. It was, years upon years ago, an inauspicious introduction. And first impressions being what they are–misleading, mostly–I veered away from a second encounter, slipping quickly past the K’s (or the...
by envisionmg | Dec 14, 2015 | Biography, Non-fiction, What I'm Reading Now
If only letters – written, sent with a stamp cornered at a crooked angle – were still a thing. As they are sadly not, instead of out of mailboxes, I’ve been pulling off of shelves piles of books crammed with page after page of posthumously published...
by envisionmg | Dec 19, 2014 | Biography, Non-fiction, What I'm Reading Now
The name William Marshal was not wholly unknown to me going into Asbridge’s The Greatest Knight, but the details of Marshal’s life, those were very sketchy indeed. I’ve only just started the second section of the biography, which opens in 1166,...
