by envisionmg | Mar 28, 2016 | Non-fiction, Rachel Reviews
Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion....
by envisionmg | Mar 21, 2016 | Fiction, Rachel Reviews, Staff Review
City on Fire is a behemoth of a novel – clocking in at over 900 pages – but it feels overwrought and excessive, as if author Garth Risk Hallberg simply wanted the world to know that he was capable of writing such an opus. The core action – which spans about seven...
by envisionmg | Feb 1, 2016 | Rachel Reviews
Book Riot does this great feature called “Buy, Borrow, Bypass” and I like it, so I’m going to do that here. You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) Don’t recognize the name Felicia Day? Don’t worry – you’re not alone. You might be familiar with her face from such...
by envisionmg | Dec 28, 2015 | Fiction, Rachel Reviews, Staff Review
When Miri was fifteen, and in love for the first time, a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving a community reeling. Against this backdrop of actual events that Judy Blume experienced in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and...
by envisionmg | Dec 16, 2015 | Fiction, Rachel Reviews
If it weren’t for the big-budget movie starring Matt Damon that just came out*, I don’t think Andy Weir’s The Martian would be flying off the shelves as much as it has – but that’s kind of a shame, really, because it’s super (ridiculously) good. And not just good in a...
by envisionmg | Nov 4, 2015 | Graphic Novels, Rachel Reviews, Staff Review
Reviewed by Rachel Lumberjanes, vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson and Grace Ellis “Friendship to the max! At Miss Quinzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s camp for hardcore lady-types, things are not what they seem. Three-eyed...
