by envisionmg | Nov 14, 2016 | Graphic Novels, Rachel Reviews
So… I really wanted to like this. After loving Chadwick Boseman’s portrayal of T-Challa in Captain America: Civil War and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s memoir Between the World and Me, my senses prickled at the thought of two amazing things coming together. Except A Nation Under...
by envisionmg | Nov 9, 2016 | Reading Lists
The Noir Headhunters Nesbo, Jo Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and he’s a master of his profession. But one career simply can’t support his luxurious lifestyle and his wife’s fledgling art gallery. At an art opening one night he meets Clas Greve, who is not...
by envisionmg | Nov 4, 2016 | Fiction, Patron Recommendations
Our patron called this “the best, funniest book.” About the book: “Dell Haley’s mama always told her there were two things a man couldn’t get enough of: good cookin’ and good lovin’. Dell has the cooking down pat — the...
by envisionmg | Nov 2, 2016 | Graphic Novels, Patrick Reviews
From the minds behind Hellboy comes a dark retelling of the DC Universe. The Doom That Came to Gotham blends the worlds of Batman, and H.P. Lovecraft. This alternate look at the Caped Crusader touches on the noir, steampunk, and cosmic horror genres. Aficionados of...
by envisionmg | Oct 31, 2016 | Lit Links
“At the scary, broken heart of each of these three novels stands a woman of tremendous courage. It’s a quality she—each of these three very different “shes”—will need in order to face the horrors bent on destroying her. Also marking each heroine is a possibly...
