2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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Book Review: Joshua of Gaia

Holy cow – Tuesday again, seriously?? I’ve been doing so well with *real* writing lately that I haven’t been finding myself with “force yourself to write today, Jill-Elizabeth” time, so I haven’t been booking blog posts in advance. As a result, I keep scrambling to find new topics and get my thrice-weekly posts written. Fortunately, […]

My First Meme – and a Taste of the WIP (cue intro music here)…

Well, it’s official. I’ve arrived. I’ve been tagged in my first meme. Teehee. This one is called The Lucky 7 Meme, and I was invited by the fabulous Tracy Brown (author and person extraordinaire) my writing buddy and, more importantly, my writing friend. (And no, I’m not just saying that because she called me awesome […]

On the Randomness of Writing…

So things have been going swimmingly lately (to borrow one of Step-Daughter’s favorite words and the only adverb she or her brother ever use when we play Mad Libs), writing-wise. Hooray for me. Seriously. I finally seem to have hit some sort of stride – I am focusing on ONE concept, although, teehee, the short-attention-span […]

Book Review: Tastes Like Human by The Shark Guys

Happy Book Review Tuesday! Today’s review book was accepted against my better judgment – teehee, I have a DEATHLY ridiculous phobia about sharks, and usually avoid any reference to them in any context like I would avoid a plague sandwich – and I’m oh-so-glad I was able to look past the title (and the gnawed-off […]

The New Classics, Jill-Elizabeth Style

So a lot of fuss is made about “classic” literature. Must-reads, top-whatever lists, library-must-haves – everyone has their own opinion, and everyone touts their opinion as definitive. I’m not going to list the traditional classics here – I’m going to talk about contemporary fiction. And I’m going to talk about them in the context of […]