by Kristine Madera | Feb 27, 2024 | Blog, Book Review, Building Protopia
A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys Book Review by Kristine Madera I picked up this book because speculative writer Ruthanna Emrys organized some of her future Earth around watershed communities, an idea I find interesting in terms of living in a more...
by Kristine Madera | Feb 20, 2024 | Blog, Book Review
An Impossible Thing to Say by Arya Shahi Book Review by Kristine Madera An Impossible Thing to Say is the kind of YA book I would have loved back in the day—and thoroughly enjoyed as an adult. Omid is an Iranian-American teenage boy crushing on a girl from...
by Kristine Madera | Feb 6, 2024 | Blog, Book Review, Building Protopia
Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz Book Review by Kristine Madera Part pop science, part muse for science fiction and other speculative writers, this gem of a book was a quick breeze through the various...
by Kristine Madera | Jan 23, 2024 | Blog, Book Review
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow Book Review by Kristine Madera I read Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism after seeing an interview in which Rachel Maddow said that rises in anti-semitism, other blaming-isms, and political...
by Kristine Madera | Jan 16, 2024 | Blog, Book Review, Building Protopia, New Earth Solutions
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Book Review by Kristine Madera Not quite on the run, Rosemary Harper flees her family’s infamy in the human colony on Mars by joining the crew of the Wayfarer, a jalopy of a ship that tunnels wormholes through...
by Kristine Madera | Jan 9, 2024 | Blog, Book Review, Building Protopia
Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed for You by Jenara Nerenberg Book Review by Kristine Madera What is normal and who gets to define it are the central questions in Jenara Nerenberg’s Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t...
