by envisionmg | Sep 11, 2020 | Fiction, Staff Review
While showing off in a petty contest, power-hungry aspiring wizard Ged accidentally unleashes a shadow upon the world. It maims him, haunts him, and hunts him wherever he goes. Ged must master his wizardry skills and make right in the world. Using words of power and...
by envisionmg | Aug 13, 2020 | Fiction, Staff Review
Lydia is a bookstore owner in Acapulco. After she befriends a customer with similar reading tastes, she learns he is the head of a Mexican cartel. Even when her journalist husband writes an expose on this cartel, she does not believe her life is in danger. When...
by envisionmg | Aug 4, 2020 | Fiction, Staff Review
The author of THE ORPHAN TRAIN has written an exceptional novel based on the real life of the title subject of Andrew Wyeth’s painting Christina’s World. With alternating timeline chapters she has painted an historically accurate portrait of Christina’s family life...
by envisionmg | May 28, 2020 | Fiction, Staff Review
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is a captivating, exploratory speculative fiction novel set in a pandemic-ravaged United States. The narrative follows the entwined stories of several people across time, all connected to an actor who dies the night the pandemic...
by envisionmg | Apr 27, 2020 | Historical Fiction, Staff Review
Having just finished The Nightingale, a wonderful novel by Kristin Hannah, I was so excited to read it’s in production to become a movie, with an expected release date of December 2020! I’m not surprised The Nightingale was Goodreads Best Historical fiction...
by envisionmg | Apr 15, 2020 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
The Art of Resistance by Justus Rosenberg is a wonderful memoir. The book, which reads like a novel, begins with the author’s childhood in Danzig (present-day Gdansk, Poland), and spans the years of WWII, detailing an extraordinary life. As a young man,...
