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Voynich Manuscript

October 1, 2023 // 0 Comments

A fifteenth-century codex (“A manuscript volume, complete or fragmentary, as of a classic work or the sacred Scriptures”), discovered in 1912 by rare books dealer [...]

‘A Christmas Carol’ @ Ventfort Hall

December 5, 2021 // 0 Comments

We took a two-and-one-half-hour drive from Boston (on the coast) to Lenox (in the Berkshires) to attend a one-person performance of the Charles Dickens story, “A [...]

An Unlikely Story Event: GRACELING

November 28, 2021 // 0 Comments

There is a wonderful, delightful, human-owned, independent book store in Plainville, Massachusetts called An Unlikely Story. Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and [...]

Lynx Edicions: All the Birds of the World

January 17, 2021 // 1 Comment

All the Birds of the World We have looked at books from Lynx Edicions before and every volume has exceeded expectations. So while the title of this one was a pretty bold [...]

How To Draw Cool Stuff

March 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

The RainyDayInterns love it when we review creative gear, whether the gear be for drawing, painting, or designing new user interfaces. It is true that we have been more [...]

A Triumph of Genius

April 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

The RainyDayMagazine folks attended an excellent talk/book reading given by the Ronald Fierstein at the New England Mobile Book Fair. Mr. Fierstein was one of the lawyers [...]

Flummery and Trivet

December 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

We believe it takes a special person to write books for children. Children are not mini-adults. They see the world in a very different way from adults. Because children [...]
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