by Kristine Madera | May 7, 2024 | Blog, Book Review, Building Protopia
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai Book Review by Kristine Madera I read this on a recommendation without any idea what it was about, which is a lot of fun if you haven’t done it, a sort of literary adventure of discovery. Anyway, The Great Believers turned...
by Kristine Madera | Apr 30, 2024 | Blog, Book Review, Building Protopia
The Premonition by Michael Lewis Book Review by Kristine Madera First, I’m an outbreak geek. The Hot Zone is a perennial favorite and public health and epidemiology fascinate me, so I pounced on Michael Lewis’s The Premonition, which dissects pandemic...
by Kristine Madera | Apr 23, 2024 | Blog, Book Review
The Cloisters by Katy Hays Book Review by Kristine Madera In what seems a serendipitous job offer when her summer associateship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art falls through, Ann Stiltwell finds herself working at The Cloisters, a center for medieval art, and with a...
by Kristine Madera | Apr 16, 2024 | Blog, Book Review
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together By Heather McGhee Book Review by Kristine Madera The core message of this well-researched book is that the often invisible, race-centered policies of the US government, state/local...
by Kristine Madera | Apr 9, 2024 | Blog, Book Review
Dust Child: A Novel by Que Mai Phan Nguyen Book Review by Kristine Madera Set in both wartime and 2016 Vietnam, Dust Child by Que Mai Phan Nguyen brings readers into an immediately captivating tapestry both heart-wrenching and hopeful of the experience of women...
by Kristine Madera | Mar 26, 2024 | Blog, Book Review
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner Book Review by Kristine Madera Sarah Penner’s debut novel The Lost Apothecary is a wonderfully original story with compelling characters and plot twists, set in two different time periods. Modern-day aspiring historian...
