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Rachel’s Reading List: Nonfiction from Black and POC Authors

by envisionmg | Feb 10, 2017 | Rachel Reviews, Reading Lists

Michael Eric Dyson’s Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America came out last month and, let me just tell you, it is making me seriously think about my privilege as an upper-middle-class white lady, living in a liberal part of a liberal state. In an...

Reading List: Women in STEM

by envisionmg | Dec 5, 2016 | Rachel Reviews, Reading Lists

Reading List Curated by Rachel Although I picked up Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers who Changed the World for its charming illustrations, the content is fascinating and makes me want to seek out everything I can on even more rad women. Feel the same way? Here...

Rachel Reviews Graphic Novels: Lumberjanes, Vol. 4: Out of Time

by envisionmg | Nov 18, 2016 | Graphic Novels, Rachel Reviews

I was really not a fan of Lumberjanes, Vol. 3: A Terrible Plan, but volume four, Out of Time, gave me the same warm and fuzzy feelings as the series opener, Beware the Kitten Holy. Was it because Brooke Allen was back illustrating my favorite five-some after one issue...

Rachel Reviews Graphic Novels: Giant Days, Vol. 1

by envisionmg | Nov 16, 2016 | Graphic Novels, Rachel Reviews

Giant Days focuses on three friends as they navigate their first months at Sheffield University. Ostensibly, not much happens – but therein lies the beauty of John Allison’s creation. To focus such an exacting eye on the minutia of female teenagers experiencing...

Rachel Reviews Graphic Novels: Black Panther, Book 1

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...

Rachel on TV Shows That Should Be Books

by envisionmg | Sep 20, 2016 | Rachel Reviews

There are sooo many shows I watch (and with which I am OBSESSED) that would work really well as a stand-alone or multi-book series. Here are the ones at the top of my list! 12 Monkeys: This series has quickly become one of my favorite shows, and it makes me think of a...