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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Guest Post: How to Find Rare Books

Today’s guest post is targeted at the hunter-gatherer in all of us obsessive book collectors. Enjoy!

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How to Find Rare Books

For lovers of old books, finding surviving copies from simpler times can be a daunting task. As publishers move beyond paperbacks and hardcovers in favor of the digital medium, ancient texts are quickly […]

Homework Assignment Ten: Extra Credit!

Well, here we are, finally finishing the series of writing exercises inspired by Susan Breen’s The Fiction Class. Today’s assignment – extra credit! For more information on the book and this series of posts, please check out the original book review here.

Extra Credit: Write a short story (just a few paragraphs*) with this […]

Homework Assignment Nine: Revision

Continuing the series of writing exercises inspired by Susan Breen’s The Fiction Class, today we are moving on to revision. For more information on the book and this series of posts, please check out the original book review here.

Revision: This is an exercise in learning to find creative solutions or how to write […]

Be Careful What You Wish For, or a Book Review of The Voice – and a Giveaway!

Today’s Book Review Tuesday post is a seriously creepy, deliciously dark, sinfully sharp whip-crack of a novel. Voice, by Joseph Garraty, is the story of Johnny Tango (a.k.a. John Tsiboukas), troubled soul and lead singer of the band Ragman. And he owes thanks for both descriptors to the mysterious man he meets at the crossroads. […]

Homework Assignment Eight: Theme

Continuing the series of writing exercises inspired by Susan Breen’s The Fiction Class, today we are moving on to theme. For more information on the book and this series of posts, please check out the original book review here.

Theme: Choose a novel or short story that you like and try to discover its theme. […]