by envisionmg | Jul 10, 2023 | Discovery List, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Reading Lists, Sci - Fi
Last week, I made a post about the literary career of Octavia E. Butler in celebration of her receiving the inaugural Infinity Award, which is meant to honor authors who have passed but whose legacies live on. To celebrate not just her career, but also her legacy, I...
by envisionmg | Jul 3, 2023 | Biography, Children's Literature, Discovery List, Essays, Fiction, For Kids, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Reading Lists, Romance, Sci - Fi, Self-Help
July is known as Disability Pride Month! Disability Pride initially started as a day of celebration in 1990—the year that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law. That same year, Boston held the first Disability Pride Day. This month is meant to...
by envisionmg | Jun 26, 2023 | Fiction, Max Reviews, Suspense, Thriller, YA, YA Fiction
Eight hours. Six friends. Five survive. That’s the tagline for Holly Jackson’s Five Survive, a teen thriller that kept me on the edge of my seat the whole read. What starts off as a road trip from Philadelphia to a warm spring break destination turns into a tense...
by envisionmg | Jun 19, 2023 | All Kinds of Lives, Anticipated Fiction, Documentary Review, DVD/Movie, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Local Experiences, Memoir, Movie Review, Music Review, Non-fiction, Sci - Fi, Streaming
All Kinds of Lives (June 2023) by Shilpa Jacobie and Max McConnell
by envisionmg | Jun 12, 2023 | Biography, Children's Literature, Discovery List, Essays, Fiction, For Kids, Middle Grade Fiction, Non-fiction, Reading Lists, YA
This Bookshelf does not existThe Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, but it could not be implemented in places still under Confederate control. As a result, in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas, enslaved people would not be free until much later. Freedom finally came on...
by envisionmg | Jun 8, 2023 | Angelina Reviews, DVD/Movie, Fiction, Sci - Fi
Station Eleven NovelStation Eleven is a novel written and published by Emily St. John Mandel in 2014. It’s a story that takes place in the great lakes region before and after a fictional flu pandemic that has killed off most of the population. As a sub-plot the...
