2024 Reading Challenge

2024 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 1 book toward her goal of 285 books.
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2023 Reading Challenge

2023 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 5 books toward her goal of 265 books.
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On the Curious Nature of the Mind or “What Alice Forgot”

Happy Book Review Tuesday! So I just finished the most amazing book – What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty. Wow. What a story. It is beautifully written, touching, hysterical (in both laughing and crying senses of the word), clever, and full of carefully developed characters that you cannot help but identify with, and, quite simply, […]

Guest Post: How to Break Through Writer’s Block

Today’s guest post is a bit of a help to me personally, and hopefully will either motivate or inspire (or I guess possibly even prevent!) others who may occasionally find themselves in the same “the words won’t come!!” boat… 🙂

How to Break Through Writer’s Block Writer’s block is the scourge of anyone that has […]

Aw, COME ON! or How To Irritate Me After First Vastly Entertaining Me (teehee)

So I just finished a most amazing book – A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. Most Amazing Indeed, she said. It had all the things I love – great characters, a strong heroine (who dramatically underestimates her own strength but pulls it out whenever she needs it), a new and interesting spin on supernaturalness, […]

Top Tens: Time Travel or Why I Like Stories Set Somewhen as Well as Somewhere

I am obsessed with the idea of time travel. That and dreams/dreaming are the two themes that are guaranteed to pull me in to a story. I don’t know why this is exactly – I don’t know if it is the idea of getting lost, the possibilities of mysterious adventure, or what, but I am […]

On the Curious Nature of Ideas or Where the Heck do You Come Up With this Stuff?

Today I’m going to offer you a rare bit of insight into my head.

I know, I know – scary stuff indeed. And it is, believe me. My head is a rather bizarre and off-beat place much of the time. But still – shedding light on bizarre and off-beat can be kind of interesting sometimes, […]