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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Book Review: I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag

We’re back in the land of the memoir, and this one is a doozy. My review copy of I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag was provided courtesy of LuxuryReading.com, which also hosted the original (shorter) post of this book review on June 30, 2012 (available here).

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I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag

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HOOOOOOOOOORAY! or The Sweetness of It All…

So I know it’s gauche to do, but I’m going to congratulate myself anyway. HOOOORAY FOR ME! I had a huge day on Friday. If you follow me on Twitter or Google+ you may have seen a few cryptic remarks and a lot of capital letters and exclamation points. The reason: I finally resolved my […]

What a Lovely Thursday…

And not a thought in my head about a post topic. Sigh. Also, not a minute to spare because it’s almost noon already and I have only just now sat down to write. Even bigger sigh. *Real* writing wins out over blog writing, every time, so I’m afraid there isn’t going to be anything to […]

A Small Paean to Libraries and a Book Review Tuesday Update Redux

Last week I made the grand pronouncement that I wouldn’t be doing book reviews every Tuesday anymore. I will be sprinkling them in when I have them, but am not going to be making a habit of forcing reviews onto the blog (or my writing life). I did come up with an alterna-idea that keeps […]

Eek: A Status Report

So an update is due, I think, on Jill-Elizabeth Progress. Here goes:

As I alluded last week, I have been spending pretty much all of my writing time working on cleaning up short stories lately. I’ve been surprised at how much I’m enjoying going back over things I’ve written – and how humbling it […]