by Kristine Madera | Jun 18, 2024 | Blog, Book Review
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood Book Review by Kristine Madera I needed this bookend to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, which has haunted me since I first read it not long after it came out, and especially after seeing the first season of Hulu’s The...
by Kristine Madera | Jun 11, 2024 | Blog, Book Review
The London Séance Society by Sarah Penner Book Review by Kristine Madera A historical mystery with a dash of magical realism, Sarah Penner’s The London Séance Society pulls the reader into a fascinating world of European 1870’s mediumship—specifically speaking to the...
by Kristine Madera | Jun 4, 2024 | Blog, Book Review
Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender Book Review by Kristine Madera The Infinity Alchemist is fundamentally about love—romantic, interpersonal, universal, and love for humanity. Like all good books, this thread is woven through characters and story, focusing on a...
by Kristine Madera | May 28, 2024 | Blog, Book Review
The Status Game: On Social Position and How We Use It by Will Storr Book Review by Kristine Madera Will Storr’s The Status Game posits that regardless of culture the core of human nature is a drive for status in the groups we are part of, and that success,...
by Kristine Madera | May 21, 2024 | Blog, Book Review
Winter World by A.G. Riddle Book Review by Kristine Madera With our own world focused on global heating, the premise of an earth that was not only cooling but rapidly freezing was a refreshing idea on a hot summer’s day. The world turned out to be freezing because an...
by Kristine Madera | May 14, 2024 | Blog, Book Review
The Future by Naomi Alderman Book Review by Kristine Madera In a not-so-unimaginable future world, three tech billionaires have bought (and kept for themselves) a proprietary sentient AI program named AUGR designed to predict civilization-collapsing events days...
