2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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The Time Has Come…

They say all good things must end, and the oh-so-wise “they” are right… It is with no small regret that I have decided that it is time to roll up my online sidewalks and call it a day. As of January 1, 2026, Jill-Elizabeth.com will be no more. This has been an absolute delight for […]

Book Review AND Excerpt: How to Grieve Like a Victorian by Amy Carol Reeves

About the Book

Katherine Center meets REALLY GOOD, ACTUALLY in a clever and poignant novel about an English Professor who grieves the sudden loss of her husband the Victorian way, by wearing widow’s weeds and escaping to London, where she unexpectedly discovers there’s still love, life, and burlesque to be had.

Dr. Lizzie Wells, a […]

Excerpt: The Time Hop Coffee Shop by Phaedra Patrick

About the Book

Greta Perks was once the shining star of the iconic Maple Gold coffee commercials, everyone’s favorite TV wife and mom. Now fame has faded, that once-glittering career a distant memory. Her marriage is on the rocks, her teenage daughter is distant, and she can’t even book any acting jobs.

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Book Review: The Witch’s Journey by Keith Miller

About the Book

A key may unlock more than just a door.

In a town beset by demons, from which the children are disappearing, redheaded Mira grows up wild and willful. When she’s around, soups boil over and flowers catch fire, and one night in her sleep she unwittingly turns her house around.

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Excerpt: The Dead Come to Stay by Brandy Schillace

About the Book

A delightful new cozy crime novel from the award-winning author of the “twisty, engaging, and thoroughly unexpected” (Deanna Raybourne) The Framed Women of Ardemore House

An amateur autistic sleuth. A wry English detective. A murder case that thrusts them both into the wealthy world of the rare artifacts trade…

Jo Jones can’t […]