2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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Don’t You Love it When You Do Something Good and Get a Reward You Didn’t Expect?

First off, let me say that I never win sweepstakes, drawings, raffles, door prizes, lotteries, or anything of that ilk. Never. Nada. Zip, zero, zilch. I do not have that luck. Now don’t get me wrong, I have plenty of other luck – I get that, and I’m not trying to be greedy, believe me. […]

Guest Post: The Future of the Book

Today’s guest post is provided by the Amazing People Club. I love hearing various people’s take on the “What five famous people would you invite to dinner” question. It is a common feature in writing exercises and as a “getting to know me” question, and I think it is intriguing to see who people choose. […]

Rapunzel’s Daughters or After the Ever After

Today’s Book Review Tuesday post is a review of Rapunzel’s Daughters, a collection of short stories that take common (and not-so-common) fairy tales beyond their common “happily ever after” endings. A review copy of the book was provided free of charge by Pink Narcissus Press.

Let me start by saying that I love fairy tales. […]

On Spending “One Day” (Well, Part of One, Anyway) with David Nicholls

Some days this whole writer/book blogger gig is simply too fun – and last week I had one of those days. Thanks to the fabulous connections (and reputation) of LuxuryReading.com, I was fortunate enough to spend an hour on the telephone with author David Nicholls, author of last year’s rather-big-commercial-deal love story “One Day.” The […]

The Freebie (Fiction) – Part the Last

At VERY long last, the end is nigh! For the beginning, start here.)

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The Freebie (continued)

And on, and on, pausing only to send the obligatory emails to Nick St. James. Emails in which she tried to capture exactly how she was feeling – even when she wasn’t entirely sure of that herself. Who […]