2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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Book Review: The Remembering Tree by H.R. Mason

About the Book

Still trying to pick up the pieces after the sudden death of her husband, Gemma Clayborn takes her fifteen-year-old daughter, Opal, and heads for Beacon Shores, a tiny coastal town in the state of Washington. Her daughter is angry at the world, and Gemma is simply trying to survive. She plans to […]

Book Review: It Starts with a Fish by Emily Kemme

About the Book

After ten years of blogging, Emily Kemme began to notice a change in her posts. Voicing her individuality had evolved from what some people labeled a troublesome personality trait into self-assurance, which she now applies daily to a variety of situations. Whether it’s managing wayward collies, home remodeling, cooking dinner, or raising […]

Book Review: How to Kill Men and Get Away with It by Katy Brent

About the Book

Meet Kitty Collins. FRIEND. LOVER. KILLER.

Have you ever walked home at night, keys in hand, ready to throw a punch in self-defence? That’s how it all started. The killing spree, I mean.

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Excerpt: Summer Lightning by Roberta Silman

About the Book

In this sweeping, multi-generational novel Roberta Silman explores the meaning of Alexander Herzen’s observation: Art, and the summer lightning of individual happiness: these are the only real goods we have. After a casual encounter at Lindbergh’s flight from Roosevelt Field in 1927, Belle and Isaac find each other again, and thus begins […]

Book Review: The Shadow Murders by Jussi Adler-Olsen

About the Book

On her sixtieth birthday, a woman takes her own life. When the case lands on Detective Carl Mørck’s desk, he can’t imagine what this has to do with Department Q, Copenhagen’s cold cases division since the cause of death seems apparent. However, his superior, Marcus Jacobsen, is convinced that this is related […]