2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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Book Review: Upgrade by Blake Crouch

I enjoy Blake Crouch’s science fiction. Both the science and the fiction are always well-developed and well-executed. That was the case here, don’t get me wrong, but this time around I found the balance to be much more uneven than in previous books, and that’s where I had some issues…

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Excerpt: The Binding Room by Nadine Matheson

About the Book

When Detective Anjelica Henley is called to investigate the murder of popular preacher in his own church, she discovers a second victim, tortured and tied to a bed in an upstairs room. He is alive, but barely, and his body show signs of a dark religious ritual.

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Excerpt: Out of Her Depth by Lizzy Barber

About the Book

Rachel lands her dream summer job at a luxurious Tuscan villa. She’s quickly drawn into a new group of rich and beautiful sophisticates and their world of partying, toxic relationships, and even more toxic substances. They’ve never faced consequences, are used to getting everything. But then someone goes too far. Someone dies. […]

Excerpt: Winter’s Reckoning by Adele Holmes, MD

About the Book

Forty-six-year-old Madeline Fairbanks has no use for ideas like “separation of the races” or “men as the superior sex.” There are many in her dying Southern Appalachian town who are upset by her socially progressive views, but for years—partly due to her late husband’s still-powerful influence, and partly due to her […]

Book Review Blurb: What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

I just love the way T. Kingfisher tells a story! I also really enjoy the spins she puts on classic tales, and this latest is no exception. I must confess I have not read The Fall of the House of Usher, although I am familiar with the concept generally. That did not at all stop […]