by envisionmg | Aug 10, 2022 | Michelle Recommends, Non-fiction
“Five hundred and thirty years ago, a young woman sat before a Grecian-nosed artist known as Leonardo da Vinci. Her name was Cecilia Gallerani, and she was the young mistress of Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan. Sforza was a brutal and clever man who was mindful...
by envisionmg | Aug 8, 2022 | Alissa Reviews
This book kept me guessing until the end, even when I was sure that I knew what was going on. Honestly, it is not hard to keep my guessing; I am terrible at predicting what will happen in a story and I do not spend much time trying to figure out plotlines and...
by envisionmg | Aug 5, 2022 | Michelle Recommends, Non-fiction
“When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O’Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier....
by envisionmg | Aug 3, 2022 | Alissa Reviews
Counterfeit, a fictional fraud-novel by Kirstin Chen, is a fast-paced story that delves deeper than you might expect. The novel is initially narrated by Ava Wong, a Chinese-American Stanford graduate who is taking time away from her corporate law career. At first...
by envisionmg | Aug 1, 2022 | Max Reviews
Rivers Solomon’s short novel The Deep is a riveting folkloric, afrofuturist novel that imagines a society of water-dwelling beings who descended from pregnant African women who were thrown overboard slave ships. This is by far the most interesting mermaid narrative I...
