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Gone Fishing

May 01, 2025
by Caroline Miller
"Just Read It", Anniversary dates for blog and video show, Righ Away, Willy Vlautin
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boy relaxing under a tree
May 2025 marks two important anniversaries. This blog, Write Away, began May 19, 2010.   We’ve been around for 15 years.  Thank you readers for your loyalty and support. Just Read It, our YouTube book talk show first aired May 27, 2014, making this month its 10th  anniversar
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Another Year!

May 09, 2024
by Caroline Miller
"Just Read It", caroline miller, Write Away Blog
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Boy, dog, lounging under a tree
Gone fishing for the day.  Celebrating 13 years of blogging and 12 years of Just Read It video book interviews. I’m back next week.  Thank you, readers!
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A Note From The Underground

March 07, 2024
by Caroline Miller
"Just Read It", fiction v. non-fiction, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Hannibal and the elephants, imagination and fact, John Keats, Rhys Bowen
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A friend sent me the name of a woman she thought would make a wonderful guest for my book Vlog, Just Read It. A historian with a new volume published about the lives of notable women, her appearance on the program seemed apt, so, I extended an invitation for her to appear in an upcomi
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Penny Wise, and Pound Foolish

January 25, 2024
by Caroline Miller
"Just Read It", Bernie Sanders, Big publishing houses struggle with Amazon, book reviews on Amazon, community standards on Amazon, death of small bookstores, Fifty Shades of Grey, Getting Lost to Find Home, Karl Marlantes, oligarchs of power in publishing, Sage Adair mystery series, Susan Stoner
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Like the boy who cried wolf, U. S. Senator Bernie Sanders has long blamed oligarchs for weakening our democracy. Of late, his prognostications ring true.  Vast fortunes concentrated in the hands of large corporations and a few individuals have weakened the middle class, leading the
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No Substitute For A Hug

May 11, 2023
by Caroline Miller
"Just Read It", Alzheimer's disease, Avvy Mar, Between the Covers, Brandon Slocum, Covid lockdown, Deep River, Getting Lost to Find Home, importance of touch, Karl Marlantes, serendipty, Singapore, Th Violin Conspiracy, Zoom
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The email came as a disappointment.  My friend had come down with Covid. That meant a reading of his short stories, both a public and Zoom event, was canceled. For two decades, I’d encouraged his writing, so I was looking forward to the occasion.  Twelve years my junior, I knew my
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Gone Fishing Once Again

May 04, 2023
by Caroline Miller
"Getting Lost to Find Home"e, "Just Read It", Craig Stewart, memoir, WriteAway blog
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May marks the 12th anniversary of publishing this blog.  Thank you, readers, for staying with me.  It also marks 11 years of producing the book talk show, Just Read It.  Who knew that together we had such staying power?  In June, look for the unveiling of the book cover for my mem
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When Culture Seems Alien

July 14, 2022
by Caroline Miller
"Just Read It", Colm Toibin, Data Is Plural, Freedom of Information Act, Marshall McLuhan, Paul Ford, right to primacy, Roswell incident, Suisse Secrets, Thomas Mann, UFO, Virginia Heffernan
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The older I get, the more I fall behind the modern culture.  For example, while taping a Just Read It segment on Colm Toibin’s fictionalized biography of Thomas Mann, I was stunned to learn that one of my young guests knew little about one of the twentieth century’s greatest
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The Lincoln Highway

May 26, 2022
by Caroline Miller
"An American Tragedy, "Just Read It", A Gentleman in Moscow, review of The Lincoln Highway, Theodore Dreiser, Towles' American Tragedy
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A discussion of The Lincoln Highway, a novel by Amor Towles, will air this fall on Just Read It. It’s part of the 10th anniversary of the book talk show.  Two local writers will be with me to celebrate and review the novel. Earlier, they joined me for a discussion of Towles’, A G
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Joy In A Little Dissatisfaction

March 08, 2022
by Caroline Miller
"Just Read It", aging, Erik Maza, Osvaldo Farrés., Phillip Margolin, Rita Moreno, Rutherford Classics, Town & Country, Write Away Blog
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“I still don’t have what I want,” says Rita Moreno, star of stage, screen, and television and also a winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an Oscar, and a Kennedy Center Honor recipient. (“The Queen,” by Erik Maza, Town&Country, March 2022, pg. 84.) I understood w
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Thoughts On The Admiring Bog

January 25, 2022
by Caroline Miller
"Just Read It", Adam Johnson, being a nobody, book burning, Emily Dickenson, Lily Tomlin, Phillip Margolin, The Orphan Master's Son, Walter de la Mare
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Lily Tomlin once said, “I always wanted to be someone, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” I know the feeling.  Nearly ten years have passed since writer Susan Stoner and I began the book talk show, Just Read It. I had dreams of becoming the next Bill Moyers. How
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