by Kristine Madera | Mar 19, 2024 | Blog, Book Review, Building Protopia
Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson Banned Book Review by Kristine Madera Monday’s Not Coming is a YA novel that dives right into the murky question of what happens when a child, particularly a Black girl, disappears. When Claudia’s best friend...
by Kristine Madera | Mar 12, 2024 | Blog, Book Review
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt Book Review by Kristine Madera In The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt plunges into the modern...
by Kristine Madera | Mar 5, 2024 | Blog, Book Review
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy Book Review by Kristine Madera I listened to this book on a whim because a friend was traveling to a mixed-religious neighborhood in Ireland that had been a ground zero for The Troubles. Trespasses brought to life the conflict in...
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...
