MADreads Reviews

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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,

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 

Cal Hooper is a retired Chicago police detective who is recently divorced. Those two major life changes have prompted him to make a third. He's bought a rundown farmhouse (from an online posting) in a rural part of Ireland and is determined to live there bothering no one and bothered by none. His first weeks in his new home live up to that ideal. He heads to the local village when he needs supplies or to stop in the pub for a drink, but otherwise is keeping to himself. His solitude is disrupted one day when he realizes someone is watching him.

I LOVE baseball!  When I was a kid it was my dream to be the first girl to play major league baseball.

Clark introduces readers to a new fantasy world in this latest novella and I'm so here for it.

Eveen is a an undead assassin. When she died she was offered a chance at an undead life - though she has no memory of how that came to be or why she would have made such a choice. As part of her deal she owes her goddess years of service as an assassin. As the goddess's assassin she has to follow 3 rules:

And that conclusion is death.

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

Stuntboy by Jason Reynolds is the story of Portico and Zola and their new friend Herbert, who used to be

Karen Brooks gives Chaucer's Wife of Bath a chance to tell her side of the story in this vivid and absorbing tale of how a woman could gain agency in her own life in a time when she legally had none.

Crinolines, at first glance, are towards the more ridiculous end of fashion inflicted on ladies of the mid-Victorian period.

A little girl using a power wheelchair does not want to get bundled up in a heavy coat, itchy hat, and stiff boots to go out into the cold and wind.  She does not like going to new places, but her mother assures her it will be all right.  They head to a park where an ice sculpture event takes place.  The artists are drilling, sawing, chiseling, and more to create something out of ice.  The girl and her mother talk about why someone might spend so much time creating something that will melt and are not in agreement about whether it's worth it or not.  

The big book news for June circles around one day and one book: June 3, the day that Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel