Posts Tagged ‘reading’
Amazing Grace – by Michael Fine
By Michael Fine, contributing writer © Michael Fine 2019 This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. The crisis of the…
Read MoreFair Warning – a book review by Jim Raftus
by Jim Raftus, book reviewer Contact: [email protected] Read more: whorlofwords.com A book review with an added twist! What happens when a best-selling novel tangentially becomes part of a real-life conflict? Does a reviewer just review the book, or should they explore the background which created the current controversy? Well, Jack McEvoy, the protagonist in Michael Connolly’s newest work,…
Read MoreThe Bull and Other Stories – a book review by Jim Raftus
by Jim Raftus, book reviewer and contributing writer The Bull and Other Stories Aspiring writers attending workshops and nervous college students struggling through Creative Writing 101 will inevitably discuss point of view. At some stage the instructor will scrawl POV across the blackboard, or whiteboard, and the elements of point of view will be dissected.…
Read MoreThings in Jars – a book review by Jim Raftus
by Jim Raftus, THINGS IN JARS by Jess Kidd Author Jess Kidd demands your total concentration, but rewards your effort. Her third novel, Things In Jars, is her most ambitious and complex work. Set in London the action flits back and forth between 1863 and 1841. In 1863 a strange six year old child, Christabel,…
Read MoreLucy’s Hearth, Reach Out & Read RI Receive Grants for Work on Aquidneck Island
Funds will support pediatric literacy efforts and programs that aid homeless families with children. Two local nonprofits have received a total of $6,000 in grants from Bank Rhode Island (BankRI) to support their work on Aquidneck Island. Lucy’s Hearth and Reach Out & Read RI each received $3,000 in funding. The grants are part of…
Read More8th Annual RI VIRTUAL Author Expo – TODAY!
Discover a Rhode Island Author Photo: Christine DePetrillo will speak about her book, Wolf Kiss The 8th Annual Rhode Island Author Expo will be a virtual experience this year. Multiple panels will be available so yo can meet some of your favorite authors for the comfort of your own home. The Association of Rhode Island…
Read MoreIn the Wake of the Willows…by David Brussat
Photo: Salt marshes along the Westport River, in Massachusetts. (Lauren Daley/Herald-News) by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There Nightly over several recent weeks – interrupted by a bout of Bell’s palsy – I read to my 11-year-old boy (and his mother) an enchanting children’s book called In the Wake of the Willows, by Frederick Gorham…
Read MoreDolly Parton’s Imagination Library gifting books to Newport County children
Dolly Parton’s surprise performance was a highlight of the 2019 Newport Folk Festival. Dolly has also been doing her video readings to children during the time of the coronavirus. Now, thanks to the generosity of the Bazarsky Family Foundation (BFF), Dolly Parton’s innovative book-gifting, Imagination Library, will be in residence for Newport County, at the…
Read MoreThe Best Medicine…by Jim Raftus
by Jim Raftus King James Bible Proverb 17:22, “A merry heart doth good like a medicine.” Seems to be a precursor to the modern, “Laughter is the best medicine.” Sitting at my desk on this 17th day of self-quarantine, I face the yawning gap of hours to fill. Based on the biblical advice, I decided…
Read MoreGood Night, Woonsocket…
That might be the next selection in the Good Night Woonsocket program. Enlisting local teachers, and maybe some upcoming celebrities, every Sunday night at 7pm a new video of a bedtime story goes live on the website Good Night Woonsocket (http://goodnightwoonsocket.weebly.com/). All the stories – five so far – remain on the website so families…
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