by Kristine Madera | May 28, 2024 | Blog, Book Review
The Status Game: On Social Position and How We Use It by Will Storr Book Review by Kristine Madera Will Storr’s The Status Game posits that regardless of culture the core of human nature is a drive for status in the groups we are part of, and that success,...
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 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 | 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...
