AWESOME: Montana School Children Comfort Shelter Animals By Reading To Them

June 17, 2013 Subscribe · Forward School Children Reading To Shelter Animals A group of awesome school children from Hamilton, Mont., regularly pass up play time to bring a little comfort to animals at their local shelter. Once a week, students from the Keystone to Discovery Enrichment program, a nonprofit summer and after-school project for behaviorally or academically at-risk youth, head to Bitter Root Humane Association to read to shelter animals that are waiting for adoption. The program not only gives the kids a chance to work on their reading skills, but also helps soothe the animals. Continue reading... Best New Books Out This Week The Book We're Talking About This Week Oldest African-American Owned Bookstore In U.S. May Close Doors 9 Books That People Will Judge You For Reading 31 Most Invaluable Pieces Of Writing Advice From Famous Authors NSFW PHOTOS: 8 Sexual Curiosities From Ancient Greece LeVar Burton's Favorite Children's Books ANNE MARGARET DANIEL F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Is Being Rewritten by Its Characters A new memoir has begun in the Believer magazine, with the first installment just published. It's by Robert Atwan, writing as "Thomas Buchanan." Yes, that Tom Buchanan, Daisy's husband, Nick's Yale frenemy, Gatsby's nemesis. Continue reading... K.J. WETHERHOLT The Resurgence of the Short Story: The Smallest of Entryways and Cristen Hemingway Jaynes With the recent prevalence of Kindle, Nook, and other digital reading devices, short fiction has started to return as an acceptable, and salable form, in fact bringing back the form with a power and a popular respectability it has not had for some time. Continue reading... CHRIS KELLY Is Glenn Beck's New Book a Warning About the NSA? The bad guys inThe Eye of Moloch seem to be behind a huge domestic spy program to learn everything about everyone and take away their freedom. If Glenn Beck's against it, it can't be all bad. Continue reading... FOOD RIOT Accidental Food Writing: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Come for the story, stay for the food. Continue reading... JESSE KORNBLUTH Beach Read: 'The Widow Waltz' Is Slicker Than a Brazilian Wax Job I devoured this book. Inhaled it greedily, as if I'd found a diary on Central Park South. At first, my pleasure was mean-spirited: with every passing day, I have less sympathy for mega-lawyers and bankers and their wives. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003