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...
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...
