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 | 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 | 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 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 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...
