Following are five novels that, in pre-Twitter, YouTube, Facebook times, went viral (or at least had readers gasping and gossiping) in a printable sort of way.
Over time, my writing has become less and less about me. What I have discovered is that the further I move from myself, the richer my writing has become.
Whether you fell asleep at night clutching a copy of Ramona Quimby or Gone With The Wind, the books we read as kids shape the women we become -- sometimes in complicated ways.
The Catholic church and the camp classic "Valley of the Dolls" aren't frequently mentioned in the same sentence, but those two diverse subjects formed...