MADreads Reviews

Sometimes I read a book and it just makes me smile.  Touch the Sky by Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic is one of those books!

Vern loves the swings at the playground, he sits on the swing, lies stomach first on the swing, and spins and spins and spins, but he does not soar on a swing.  Why not?  Because he can't pump.  The other kids tease him, but he just can't get his legs to do it.  One day Gretchen comes by.  She asks Vern if he wants to learn.   

Vern doesn't actually know Gretchen.  He says he only knows her because of her mom.

The marketing for this title has it pitched as Crazy Rich Asians meets

This story nearly made me want to cry - and then it made me hungry.

But thanks to Taylor Jenkins Reid, I felt like one for a short while. I'm not a pilot or an aeronautical engineer. My eyesight is poor.

I've loved Sarah MacLean's historical romances, so I was eager, and a little nervous, to read her change-of-pace contemporary novel, These Summer Storms.

The soundtrack of America encompasses heartbreak, joy, revolution, and survival.

Every month Madison Public Library hosts a variety of book discussions and each of them warmly welcomes newcomers.

Stuart Turton once again blends genres in his latest novel with amazing results. The blend here is a near-future, post-apocalyptic setting with a murder mystery.

Did you know that books can be so much more than just stories to read? I love when a book also encourages me to play, too!

Every month there are new titles purchased for the Too Good to Miss collections at our libraries. If you're not familiar with TGTM (as we call it here in 

Brooke Shields does not have to take on aging in the modern world, but I am grateful she's doing it.

Want a taste of what it's like to be famous?

The tiniest of words can create the BIGGEST of feelings – or at least that’s true in Ten-Word Tiny Tales of Love by Joseph Coelho.

Summer reading is in full swing, and the publishing calendar is seemingly on cruise control. Not surprisingly, thrillers are abundant on the bestseller 

Wallbrook's debut mystery introduces junior professor Daphne Ouverture.

Maya is excited and nervous to share her Korean family's tradition of birthday soup, or miyeok guk, with her friends at her birthday party.

Robert Harris has established himself as a top-notch thriller writer, praised for his perceptive character work of

Chooch is the baby. Well, he's not really a baby anymore, but anytime Chooch makes a mess, everyone says, "He's just usdi. Let him help." To Sissy, it feels like Chooch can get away with anything. He helps Elisi paint a mural, Etsi sew moccasins, and Edutsi make grape dumplings. Anyone who has ever let a toddler "help" with something can imagine how this goes, and when he helps Sissy make a clay pot she finally loses patience.

In her wonderful (and much loved by me) follow-up to The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, author