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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
