2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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Excerpt: The Banned Books Club by Brenda Novak

About the Book

For fans of Elin Hilderbrand, a riveting exploration of family, sisterhood, and the transformative power of literature. When two sisters, one a free spirit at the helm of a rebellious book club, the other a conventional woman locked in the clutches of an unhappy marriage are forced into a reluctant reunion by […]

Excerpt: The Changing of Keys by Carolyn Jack

About the Book

With his father dead, a gifted, fourteen-year-old pianist finds himself sent away from his Caribbean home against his will, to study classical music in the U.S. with a family friend he’ s never met. His first angry, frightened step away from the controlling mother he’ s never been able to reach becomes […]

Excerpt: The Ghost Cat by Alex Howard

About the Book

For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and How to Stop Time, a charming novel by TikTok sensation Alex Howard that follows a cat through his nine lives in Edinburgh, moving through the ever-changing city and its inhabitants over centuries.

Early morning, 1902. In a gloomy Edinburgh tenement, Eilidh the charlady […]

Excerpt: The Backtrack by Erin La Rosa

About the Book

From the author of FOR BUTTER OR WORSE and PLOT TWIST comes a new speculative contemporary romance. One woman is sucked into the past—and shown glimpses of what her life could have been—as she listens to nostalgic hits on her old CD player. For fans of Rebecca Serle and Allison Winn Scotch.

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Looking for More Reviews and Recommendations?

Want more reviews? A lot of the blog posts these days are excerpts – which is great, if you’re looking for a taste of something new, but a change from my previous review-focused postings… Due to time constraints, I’m not posting as many reviews directly to the blog but I’m definitely still reading and reviewing, […]