2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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Book Review and GIVEAWAY: Aralen Dreams by Charles Thompson

Today’s book review is the best kind of fiction – it reads like an actual memoir. This is in large measure due to the fact that the author based his story on his own real-life experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in Panama. But I think it is also – in an even larger measure […]

Words Words Words

So I’ve been thinking about words a lot lately. I think in and about words all the time. I’m a total left-brainer, all about logic and reasoning (hello lawyer and philosophy major!), I’m a writer (I know, I know – little creative right-brain bits sneak in from time to time), a compulsive reader, and an […]

Guest Post: Heroes and Villains – 2 Faces of the Same Coin, by Melissa Goodwin – and a Giveaway!!

Today’s post is brought to you by the good people at WOW – Women on Writing – as a part of the blog tour promoting The Christmas Village by Melissa Goodwin. In this Christmas adventure story, Jamie is a twelve year-old boy who is having a difficult time. He wishes that he could live inside […]

Sorry Charlie…

You have to come back tomorrow – there will be no post today because I am hosting a stop on a blog tour tomorrow. So stop by to check out Melissa Goodwin and get your third-this-week dose of Jill-Elizabeth stuff! 🙂

Book Review: Once Upon a Decade: Tales of the Fifties by Clark Zlotchew

For today’s Book Review Tuesday post, we are going back in time… Once Upon a Decade: Tales of the Fifties is a collection of stories by Clark Zlotchew that take the reader on a journey back into the 1950s.

I met Clark on GoodReads; after trading a few messages about book reviews I had […]