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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I’ve Been Saying it for YEARS…

Reading makes you live longer.

This is no great surprise to me, but apparently it was to many other people (like The Husband)… Fortunately, a new study, reported in The Washington Post the other day, confirmed it.

“A recent study by Yale University researchers, published online in the journal Social Science & Medicine, […]

Today’s Quote of the Day, Courtesy of Uncertain Voyage by Dorothy Gilman

So I think I’m going to make this a regular feature, since I’ve been finding so many memorable quotes in the books I’m reading lately… They’re not always (or, so far, even often) reflective of where I am or what’s going on, mind you, they just happen to be snippets that are (for whatever reason) […]

If You’re Tired of Not Seeing the Books You Liked on Prize-Winning Lists… VOTE!

I often find the lists of nominees and winners for book prizes like the Booker or Pulitzer to be somewhat mystifying – much like Oscar or Golden Globe lists… I read rather a lot, and am always amazed at the difficulty I have identifying the vast majority of titles on said lists. I often wonder […]

Book Review: Far Rockaway by Charlie Fletcher, or Merciful Heavens, but this was a GREAT BOOK…

So I just finished Far Rockaway by Charlie Fletcher. As I mentioned recently, I think Fletcher is a vastly underrated author. His Oversight trilogy (two of the three are currently available) was incredible and based on them, I picked this one up. I was hooked by the description as much as my enjoyment of the […]

Thought for Today…

I don’t have anything real to say, but just saw this in my most amazing new book – Far Rockaway by the under-appreciated Charlie Fletcher – and though it bore repeating… Happy Tuesday!

The one stone truth about being indecisive is you end up somewhere you never chose to be, and who wants to be […]