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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Not-Quite-A-Review: The Masked City by Genevieve Cogman

So here’s another one of those “I’m still reading but had to share” posts… This time about The Masked City, the second book in Genevieve Cogman’s superlative “Invisible Library” series. And hooray – it’s almost as good as the first in the trilogy! I say hooray and sound surprised because, in my experience, the middle […]

Book Review: The Human Superorganism by Dr. Rodney Dietert

My review copy of this interesting book was graciously provided by the publisher.

“What if the very basis of what a human is was radically different from what we were taught as children?”

Thus opens The Human Superorganism, Dr. Rodney Dietert’s exegesis on rethinking human biology and human health. It’s a provocative idea that leads […]

Not Quite A Review: Superheroes Anonymous by Lexie Dunn

I seem to find myself compelled to write these blurb things up more and more lately while I’m in the middle of the book – it’s mostly because I’m a beta-writer on BookBub’s new Buzz (if you haven’t seen it, check it out – it’s still join-by-invitation only, but I can invite you so let […]

The Truth about Help, Courtesy of One of My Favorite New Series…

I came across this gem in the second book in Laurie R. King’s amazing Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series (A Mysterious Regiment of Women) and found it so incredibly spot-on that I thought it bore repeating…

” No, young man, you asked for my help, and as many have found, you must take it as it […]

Book Review: The Man Who Wasn’t There by Anil Ananthaswamy

I’ve commented before on my inexplicable interest in books about mental health and mental illnesses. So when I was contacted by the publisher and asked if I would be interested in taking a look at the paperback release of journalist and former New Scientist deputy editor Anil Ananthaswamy’s exploration into the nature of the self […]