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What would you do?
Being a reader from a young age, I learned about the Holocaust before most of my classmates due to my mom’s encouragement to read her heroine, Corrie Ten Boom’s book, “The Hiding Place,” a novel about her family’s experience in Germany under Adolf Hitler’s rule. From the moment I read…
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All I want for Christmas… Is not to hear this song again!
Because I don’t mind dating myself from time to time, I will tell you I have been listening to Mariah Carey’s “All I want for Christmas Is You” holiday juggernaut since it first came out, way back when I was a young girl in middle school.
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Don’t be chronically ill without an extra $1 mil
James Van Der Beek announced this week he is selling off his Dawson’s Creek memorabilia. If you are a nineties alumnus such as myself, you understand why hearing the opportunity to own a piece of a beloved show had my nostalgic ears tuning in. Then I heard he is in…
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Do you know the house that stands on chicken legs?
The story of Baba Yaga is old and one I have been familiar with since an elementary school book fair impulse buy of “Bony Legs” by Joanna Cole based entirely on its cover, which featured a crazy looking house standing on a foundation of chicken feet with an evil looking…
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Ghost Tour? Yes, please!
The first ghost tour I ever went on was in Charleston as a young teen on vacation with my family. I wanted to go to a mystery dinner, but I was overruled and because I have a strong interest in the spooky and unexplained, I was mostly fine with this…
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Chubby rain
Clouds grew dark and the soft pitter-patter of what the people of Oakville, Washington believed to be rain could be heard tapping against windows and dancing across rooftops. A summer storm was underway, and no one thought much of it… at first.
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Would you live forever?
Occasionally, I will introduce a topic of conversation that most assuredly will be received with questioning looks because I often forget everyone is not as nerdy as me and therefore not as apt to randomly research obscure subjects as myself. For instance, one such topic is the story of the…
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Move over Dracula, the Blood Countess has entered the castle!
I first heard Countess Elizabeth Bathory’s story when I read a book involving her and immediately became intrigued. For those who are not familiar with the Blood Countess or “Lady Dracula” as she is often named, Bathory was a 16-century born noble woman of Hungary who for some inexplicable reason…
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Hauntingly good reads
The chill of autumn was finally in the air, however briefly, and it got me thinking about my favorite spooky books to read. Last year, I wrote about some of my favorite scary movies, so this year, I decided to compile a list of a few of my favorite books…
