by envisionmg | Apr 3, 2023 | Alissa Reviews, Ari Reviews, Max Reviews, Noelle Reviews, Poetry, Poetry Collections, Shilpa Reviews
National Poetry Month was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996 to celebrate the integral role of poets and poetry in our culture. One of the ways we are celebrating National Poetry Month at the Peabody Institute Library of Danvers is through this...
by envisionmg | Mar 30, 2023 | Alissa Reviews, Fiction, Suspense
Suspense novels and psychological fiction are not my go-to genres, but sometimes I am not in the mood for a lovely, uplifting book and I want a book that I cannot put down. Amanda Pellegrino’s The Social Climber was the perfect choice, and I was so totally engrossed...
by envisionmg | Jan 9, 2023 | 2022 In Review, Alissa Reviews
We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine NewmanAs Edith, her best friend of forty-two years who is dying of ovarian cancer, spends her last days at a hospice near her, Ashley, stumbling around into heartbreak, helps Edith celebrate her life as they reminisce, hold...
by envisionmg | Dec 15, 2022 | Alissa Reviews, Fiction, Literary Fiction
I am not going to look back through my previous reviews to see how many books I have declared are the “best book I have read all year,” or “all-time top ten favorite,” but as I am prone to hyperbole, I think a lot of books share this “honor.” And when I declare it, I...
by envisionmg | Dec 8, 2022 | Alissa Reviews, Fiction
Here is a book that jumped up to the top of my favorite-books-of-2022 list, and I doubt that I will read another book this year that will nudge it out of first place. The story has small-town, heartwarming appeal and has multiple narrators/perspectives; my favorite...
by envisionmg | Dec 5, 2022 | Alissa Reviews, Fiction
Meena Dave, the main character in Namrata Patel’s novel The Candid Life of Meena Dave, is a photojournalist and traveler. Meena allows her photography to lead her in her journeys, and prefers to live without a home base, without roots, and with no long-term...
