by envisionmg | Jul 11, 2014 | Feature Series, Fiction
Every summer has it’s anthem: that song (or two) you play over and over; a song that, when cooler weather settles in, brings back memories of bright and cloudless skies, warm nights, or maybe chocolate ice cream dripping down the sides of a waffle cone. The same...
by envisionmg | Jul 7, 2014 | Fiction, Graphic Novels, Michelle Recommends, YA
Notes from the Internet Apocalypse – Wayne GladstoneHave you ever guffawed while reading? I mean, out of the blue: a burst of laughter, startling in the relative quiet. I did, with this book, not once or twice but so many times I lost count. This too-slim*...
by envisionmg | Jul 2, 2014 | Fiction, Patron Review
Reviewed by KimGage Dekker, who has lost his wife and young son in a car accident, meets Anna Miller, who has also lost a child at a grief group, and marry within the year. After a miscarriage, Anna can’t bear to try again so they decide to adopt. Conveniently...
by envisionmg | Jun 30, 2014 | Fiction, Jen Recommends
Gone With a Handsomer Man – Michael Lee WestBetrayed, arrested for assault with a dangerous Georgia peach, and framed for her fiance’s murder, Teeny Templeton’s battle to clear her name features a host of oddballs, Southern charm and poisonous...
by envisionmg | Jun 19, 2014 | Fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by Carol4.5 Stars. Remarkable historical fiction about a Southern family’s views on slavery pre-Civil War, and the relationship between one of the daughters, Sarah Grimké, and her slave, Handful. Grimké and her sister, Angelina, become passionate about...
by envisionmg | May 30, 2014 | Fiction, Patron Review
Reviewed by KimFrom the first line of Chapter One, “I am not the sort of person about whom stories are told,” this book absolutely captivated me. It is told in the first person from the perspective of Elise Dalriss, a peasant girl who after losing almost...
