Caroline Miller’s Write Away Blog
Mar 22, 2011
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=-lSLzYKVd2s%3Ffs%3D1%26hl%3Den_US (from “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.” Demonstrates the kind of personality traits needed to propel a book from keyboard to reader.) (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
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Mar 22, 2011
THE ECCLESIASTES OF FREEDOM I confess it; I have taken sides with the rebels in Libya as most westerners would. I have no idea what ideology will prevail if they succeed as I understand there are a number of competing tribes in their culture. But I cannot remain indifferent when I see
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Mar 20, 2011
PRINT ON DEMAND (POD) AND THE PECKING ORDER Wherever humans gather a pecking order will emerge. A few of us may be lucky enough to stand at the top of that order but most of us will land somewhere in the middle or at the bottom. This phenomenon is important to remember as we struggle
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Mar 17, 2011
DON’T SEND IN THE CLONES, PLEASE Frankly, I’m tired of reading book reviews that compare yet another thriller to Dan Brown’s “Da Vinci Code.” The truth is, there is only one Dan Brown and thank heaven for that because while his work is gripping it is also relentles
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Mar 16, 2011
PAPER, PAPER EVERYWHERE AND NOT A STOP TO THINK Benjamin Braddock from the book and film “The Graduate” is an anti-hero who faces no ruthless enemy. His nemesis is summed up by the single word, “plastics” — a word which denotes not evil but a life lived at its mo
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Mar 15, 2011
JOINING THE BORG Sara Paretsky, best-selling crime novelist whose fictional private investigator V.I Warshawski has made it to the movie screen, recently gave an interview to AARP Magazine (March/ April 2011). In it she said, “I’m on Facebook and Twitter because my publishers insi
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Mar 14, 2011
WHAT THE MARKET WILL BEAR I wrote a blog earlier about the author Haruki Murakami and his novel “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” which impressed me as being unique among the books (Blog: 1/28/2011). As its tale continued to haunt me, I went to the used bookstore the other day
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Mar 13, 2011
SERIOUS THOUGHTS OF LIFE AND DEATH Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese novelist who has received a good deal of recognition in this country and at least two of his works have become films: “The Remains of the Day” and “Never Let Me Go.” I have read none of his writing
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March 10, 2011 “THE DEEPER THAT SORROW CARVES INTO YOUR BEING THE MORE JOY CAN BE CONTAINED” – Kahlil Gibran A friend paid me an oblique compliment the other day. We were talking about my blog of March 8 and the rude publisher I’d encountered. “Well one thing about y
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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.
Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015
Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens. She also published the story Gustav Pavel, a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.
Caroline has published five novels
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