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Come celebrate the start of summer and find new-to-you authors!.

Giulia Goes to War

Heat Rating:Sweet

by Joan Leotta

Genre: Historical

Blurb: Giulia leaves small town western PA to work in the Wilmington NC shipyard during World War II. She finds independence, romance, and stops a spy engaged in sabotoge.

 

Posting Difficulties

Not sure how I did it, but I posted the last item four times! Sorry about that.

Enjoy this review of Linda Goodman’s Newest CD

Bobby Pins

A CD by Linda Goodman

Available at www.lindagoodmantstoryteller.com or

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/lindagoodman

Review by Joan Leotta

            This is the chocolate fudge sundae of storytelling CDs, except that it is even better than my favorite forbidden treat. You can listen to it without guilt. No added fat, just food for thought.

Linda shares stories from her heart, and her western Virginia mountain roots.

            Three of these stories were new to me. “Pearl” is adapted from one of the stories in Linda’s book, Daughters of the Appalachians. The three personal tales delve deeply into Linda’s own childhood. She says they are recalled “through the dim smoky haze of my mind’s eye.”

“Nickels and Dimes” explores the relationship with a younger sister. Mustard Seed shows us the truth of the great powers of faith as Linda lived it in her childhood in the mountains. The last, “Bobby Pins” shows us Linda and her own mother in a relationship and leaves us on the positive thought of the positive effect that the little things we do have on others, especially those we love.

            Linda’s lilting presentation is flavored expertly with the cadence and laconic rhythms of her mountain origins. She delivers each tale through the ears directly to the listener’s soul. Linda is as fine a writer as she is a teller. The arc of each tale flawlessly rolls to a fully satisfying end bolstered by superb choices of word dialect and the use of classic literary devices such as repetition, and parallelism.

            Listen to it for the pure pleasure of the experience or use it to teach yourself about story, Appalachia, people, families, dialect. This tape is appropriate for all ages and for men as well as women. Use it in schools if you want to tell of life in Appalachia or just explore family relationships.

            At the finish, I was tempted to shake the CD case to see if more stories would fall out. I suppose I will have to wait for Linda to open more of her heart to us.

Joan Leotta is a published author and an accomplished storyteller in her own right. Her new ebook, Guilia Goes to War, will be available in July.

Pen and Performance

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Pen and Performance

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Pen and Performance

It seems that I am having trouble loading the adobe file. If anyone would like to read a copy of it, please send me a note through the comment section or email me at joanleotta@atmc.net and I will send you a copy of the adobe file.

Pen and Performance

It seems that I am having trouble loading the adobe file. If anyone would like to read a copy of it, please send me a note through the comment section or email me at joanleotta@atmc.net and I will send you a copy of the adobe file.

Fellow Storytellers

This past weekend at Wildacres as the lead for a group of seminars exploring the art of telling stories on paper and in performance was a wonderful experience. I made many new friends, shared my thoughts and experiences and learned from the knowledge and experience of others.

One of the things I wanted to share with them was the article I wrote in the 1995 issue of Storytelling Magazine.

I will enclose it here when I figure out how to do it!

 

 

So Much to DO!

It seems that my blog schedule is not getting off to a good start–Have a review of an article to do for Carmen, one to write for the SUn News and the handouts to craft for the seminar on story performance I am giving this weekend at Wildacres.

Please be patient with me.

Joan

My aim is to blog once weekly with something from me and something that will be of value to others.

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