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Ghost Stories
I recently made the mistake of asking my friends on Facebook if they had any personal spooky stories to share. My feed quickly filled up with stories of ghosts and other paranormal activities. Among...
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Sea Adventure Anyone?
There isn’t a book lover out there who doesn’t agree that we can live thousands of lives in the pages of a novel. Many of us have an adventurous spirit, but mainstream lives – jobs, homes and family....
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How Motherhood Changed my Reading Habits
Ever since I became a mother, I can’t read books that have anything to do with the harming a child. No kidnappings, murders, dead babies. Just can’t go there. In general, sad books are off the list,...
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Is The Book Always Better?
If a book becomes a bestseller these days, it’s often made into a movie. I don’t know about you, but I find that the movie versions never quite live up to the book. Part of it, for me, is that the...
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Introducing Old and Dear Friends
Last summer I was vacationing with my daughters, ages 9 and 12. After lunch one day, we stumbled into a little bookstore. I was feeling generous, happy and relaxed in that way vacations can make one,...
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Shelves and shelves of books…
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who loved books. When she grew up, she developed a little problem. She could not stop buying books, until they filled shelves and shelves in her home office....
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There are few of us lucky enough to make our living as writers, and an even smaller number who are making it from their fiction alone. Most of us piece together an income from freelance writing, both...
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Some Of My Favorite Things
Several years ago I was invited to a Christmas party where we were supposed to bring one of “our favorite things” for the gift exchange. This was a group of ladies, all fashionable and beauty...
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How do you find the books you fall in love with?
I’m fascinated by how people find books in the modern age. Despite that fact that our lives are inundated with technology, we still seem to find books by word-of-mouth. Granted, the word-of-mouth may...
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The Librarians
I grew up in a small town. We had one stoplight, eight churches, five bars, a grocery store, barber, and a feed store. But best of all, we had a library. For a poor kid like me who loved to read, it...
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Theme and Aging. How do they go together?
My oldest daughter just finished reading “To Kill A Mockingbird”. I’d given it to her as a gift last August, telling her it was one of my favorite books of all time, and I would love for her to read...
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A Book Under the Tree
When I was a kid my mother always got me at least one book as a present to open on Christmas morning. She knew books were what I loved best. After the baby dolls were tucked in and the Easy-Bake-Oven...
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7 of the Best Books in Literature & Fiction for 2015
2015 is rapidly closing upon us and everyone at Runaway Goodness wanted to reflect back on some of the top books from the year. Today’s list is complied from the “Best Books of 2015: Literature &...
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