2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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Book Review: Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin

I enjoyed this one and found the concept of memory removal fascinating. I have read some things on this topic before, although the take here was novel and very engaging.

I enjoyed this one and found the concept of memory removal fascinating. I have read some things on this topic […]

Book Review: They Called Us Girls by Kathleen Courtenay Stone

I love reading about cutting-edge, ahead-of-their-time personalities, and Kathleen Courtenay Stone’s collection of tales of women throughout the decades of the 20th century who managed to step up and into careers, purposes, and advancements that the world around them believed they couldn’t – or shouldn’t be able to – handle because they were female is […]

Book Review: The Night Shift by Alex Finlay

It’s official: I really dig Alex Finlay. This is the second novel I’ve read and the second five star review I’ve given. He has a knack for writing drama that should by all rights veer into the land of the melodramatic and yet somehow never does. He walks the line between too-much and just-right perfectly […]

Book Review Blurb: The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart

Do NOT let the short review fool you – this may be the best book I’ve read in the past year…

Oh my goodness but I loved the story! The constructs, the world building, the characters, and the plot all blended together perfectly to create an exciting action-packed tale full of science and […]

Book Review: Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor

I was really excited about the promise of this one, but to my mind it didn’t deliver quite what I was hoping to find. Rather than a reimagining, or recasting of characters, large swaths of this were more properly described as a retelling of Gatsby, in plainer and less metaphorical (and thereby […]