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Take me out to the ball game
A review of The Code by Ross Bernstein

 Well it's World Series time, so that means time for some baseball books. While I don't watch a lot of baseball, I really enjoy the incredible amount of strategy that goes into each pitch: where to place your fielders, where to place your pitch, and how all that changes when you have runners on base, etc., etc. Add to that all of the unwritten rules of baseball – like when do you bean a guy, and conversely, when does one charge the mound? Then add to that all of the different ways you can cheat ...read more

Reviewed by Gregg - Sequoya on October 20, 2008 | 1 comment

Wisconsin Book Festival: Sunday, October 18
A review of Facing Fear by Judith Strasser

 Join us for this Wisconsin Book Festival event held at your Madison Public Library! Carol Chase Bjerke, Judith Strasser, & Richard Quinney: Writing Between Illness and Wellness 4:00 p.m. at the Central Branch  With dark humor, irony, compassion, and keen sense of self, Carol Chase Bjerke navigates through the different personas of a rectal cancer survivor, medical patient, healer, and most importantly, artist, to ...read more

Reviewed by Library Staff on October 19, 2008 | 0 comments

Wisconsin Book Festival: Friday, October 17


Join us for this Wisconsin Book Festival event held at your Madison Public Library! Porter Shreve & Casey Nagy: Fiction Stranger Than Politics 5:00 p.m. at the Central Branch Sometimes, people trying to change the world say by any means necessary. But how much is too much? What if the wrong people get hurt?  ...read more

Reviewed by Library Staff on October 17, 2008 | 0 comments

Wisconsin Book Festival: Thursday, October 16


Join us for these Wisconsin Book Festival events held at your Madison Public Library! Henry Drewal and Baba Wague Diakite: Meet Mami Wata 5:00 p.m. at the Central Branch Commonly known as a water spirit, Mami Wata is a west African mythical figure steeped in much mystery and charm. For centuries, traditional and now contemporary art has been created to celebrate Mami Wata, thus demonstrating the pervasiveness of the water ...read more

Reviewed by Library Staff on October 16, 2008 | 0 comments

Wisconsin Book Festival: Wednesday, October 15


Join us for these Wisconsin Book Festival events held at your Madison Public Library! Kashmira Sheth: Monsoon Afternoon 6:30 p.m. at the Alicia Ashman Branch Author Kashmira Sheth presents an affectionate, sensitive story which provides a look into Indian ...read more

Reviewed by Library Staff on October 15, 2008 | 0 comments

Between Blume books last week...
A review of The Darkness Under the Water by Beth Kanell

 I read Beth Kanell's debut YA historical fiction book The Darkness Under the Water. Why re-read good old Judy?  Both Blume and Kanell will be part of this week's Wisconsin Book Festival and I intend to see them both ...read more

Reviewed by Katharine - Sequoya on October 14, 2008 | 2 comments

Turnaround

A review of Turnaround by George Pelecanos

 As an audiobook reviewer for Library Journal, I am often given books to review that I would not normally pick up on my own. The Turnaround by  ...read more

Reviewed by Mary K. - Central on October 13, 2008 | 0 comments

Drop out for the techno-impaired
A review of See You in a Hundred Years by Logan Ward

 My cell phone battery just died, and it made better financial sense to buy a new phone than to replace the battery.  Of course, my new phone came with a whole slew of new techno bells and whistles, and being a techno-tard, it was just a matter of minutes before I wanted to hurl my phone out the window. I can't figure these things out. You can imagine then, that a good 'drop out' book would be the perfect thing for me to read this year. And I found it in Logan Ward's ...read more

Reviewed by Lisa - Central on October 10, 2008 | 1 comment

These young first time novelists continue to amaze
A review of The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block

 The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block is one such novel. It follows two threads, one ...read more

Reviewed by Liz - Central Library on October 9, 2008 | 0 comments

Letting Go
A review of Lisa's Story: The Other Shoe by Tom Batiuk

 Earlier this year Tom Batiuk was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his Funky Winkerbean comic strip. And, more specifically, for the story arc that concerned character Lisa Moore. In her story, she was originally diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999, suffered a recurrence and recently died. The first part of the story was collected in the book ...read more

Reviewed by Dennis - Central on October 8, 2008 | 0 comments
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