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Oracle reviewer Gus Monet reviews “Lost in a Good Book” by Jasper Fforde, part of the Thursday Next series

This genre-bending novel book features an action/adventure plot that merrily forays into the realms of fantasy and science fiction.  “Special guests” coming into the story include the Red Queen and the Cheshire Cat from that inspiration for so much juvenile literature, Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland”.  Also making an appearance is Edgar Allan Poe and his famous poem “The Raven”

With a mesmorizing cast of characters and sassy humour,”Lost in a Good Book” is a great cliffhanger of a novel for ages 12 and up. (more…)

The fourth annual Stone Soup Café fundraising event was held earlier this month at Connaught school, and through it the school and community raised $1500.oo for a charity promoting safe sleeping for children in developing countries.

The legend of the Stone Soup is all about the spirit of sharing, and parent council member Jackie Scheffel has been part of the cooperative effort since it was launched 4 years ago.

Check the audio link below to hear Jackie talk about how the event links the Connaught community to children around the world, and click on the image to see a photoset taken at this year’s Stone Soup event.

 

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Third Wall’s Theatre’s production of Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen plays the studio theatre of the Irving Greenbertg Theatre Centre until March 21. Contact GCTC box office 613.236.5196 for tickets and showtimes.

Review by Lesley Buxton

The first time I ever heard of Peer Gynt was in the film Educating Rita when Rita, the main character suggests, rather too honestly the best way to avoid the pitfalls of mounting the production was to “Do it on the radio.” I was seventeen at the time and like Rita, desperate to learn about the arts. Today as I contemplated my review I found myself thinking about that film and what it has to say about education and the arts. I believe the main function of theatre is to entertain as well as to elicit feeling for the characters and that really great theatre has a universality that appeals to audiences of all classes. (more…)

by Anita Lahey

You’re no sidewalk. No hardwood floor. No loon-inhabited

lake. I bisect you corner-to-corner, dodging bumpers

and windshield glare. You’re a flake of night sky with spit,

gum and oil sprinkled over you like refugees

among the constellations. You lie between me and good

coffee, home and the 86 bus.  (more…)

On February 26, 2009 at the GCTC, the award winning play “The Drawer Boy” by Michael Healey opened, and time went back to the 1970’s. The play begins with revealing the everyday life of Morgan and Angus, two long time friends and bachelors who, since the end of World War ll, have lived together on a farm in rural Ontario. The scene starts with Angus quietly and carefully making the first of many sandwiches which will be made during the play. (more…)