2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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Book Review: If You Read ONE New Book This Year, Make it “The Summer That Melted Everything”…

I know, I know – it sounds like hyperbole or marketing or that I’m being paid or that the book was written by me or my best friend. None of those are true. What IS true is that The Summer That Melted Everything is an incredible book by an immensely talented author, and that it […]

So Pinterest…

I kind of love it. Not the way, say, The Husband does – he has scads of boards and actually follows through on the things he finds to build or buy, whereas I’m more of a “hey, cool, I like X and don’t know what to do with that information besides add it to […]

Special Treat: A Bit of Short Fiction Courtesy of the Talented Jim Callan

So today I have a special treat for you – a very fun piece of short fiction by the talented author James Callan. He sent this tidbit around to those of us on his email list (if you’re not one of said lucky readers, you should definitely do something about that post haste – you […]

Yet Another Cool GoodReads Feature – Now You Can See What I Read (if you care)!

How cool is this – it’s a statistical compilation of my GoodReads reading since 2011!

If you click on any of the orange bars (or the “details” tab) you can see the expanded version showing all the books in each given ranking category in each given year. And you can see each and every single […]

BOOK REVIEW: Prison of Souls by Xander Grey

Today we’re going to delve into seriously creepy land, via Prison of Souls by Xander Grey. My review copy was graciously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.

Book summary available from Amazon ; book trailer available here. Apparently, I’m the last person in the world to learn that most books have […]