2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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A Book Spine Poem for Your Viewing Pleasure

Going in a slightly different direction today… This is a book spine poem. The idea is not mine – it came from my local library’s adult summer reading program (brilliant program, btw). Their rules: arrange the spines of any number of books of your choosing so that the titles comprise a poem/tell a story. Then […]

Book Review: I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag

We’re back in the land of the memoir, and this one is a doozy. My review copy of I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag was provided courtesy of LuxuryReading.com, which also hosted the original (shorter) post of this book review on June 30, 2012 (available here).

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I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag

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HOOOOOOOOOORAY! or The Sweetness of It All…

So I know it’s gauche to do, but I’m going to congratulate myself anyway. HOOOORAY FOR ME! I had a huge day on Friday. If you follow me on Twitter or Google+ you may have seen a few cryptic remarks and a lot of capital letters and exclamation points. The reason: I finally resolved my […]

What a Lovely Thursday…

And not a thought in my head about a post topic. Sigh. Also, not a minute to spare because it’s almost noon already and I have only just now sat down to write. Even bigger sigh. *Real* writing wins out over blog writing, every time, so I’m afraid there isn’t going to be anything to […]

A Small Paean to Libraries and a Book Review Tuesday Update Redux

Last week I made the grand pronouncement that I wouldn’t be doing book reviews every Tuesday anymore. I will be sprinkling them in when I have them, but am not going to be making a habit of forcing reviews onto the blog (or my writing life). I did come up with an alterna-idea that keeps […]