2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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The Freebie (Fiction) – Part IV

I swear I am not dragging this out on purpose, to get out of having to write new blog posts… 🙂 Callie just keeps wanting me to tell you more and more, and what can I do but acquiesce? I promise there will only be one more day after this… For the beginning, start here. […]

Congratulations – We Have Ourselves a Winner!

My second giveaway is complete and the winner has been randomly courtesy of the kind folks at Random.org… And so with no further ado, congrats to Marjorie, the winner of the “My Korean Deli” memoir giveaway!!

Thanks again to everyone who entered – I rather love doing the giveaways, so keep watching for them… I […]

Guest Post: Best Books for Last-Minute Summer Reading With Kids

Today’s guest post, brought to you courtesy of Kelly Wilson, offers some advice on how to interest kids in books during the summer. I, of course, never had this problem – my parents would have needed the opposite post: how to get your kid to do something besides squirrel herself away in her room reading… […]

Why I Love to be Scared or My Top Ten Creepy Scary Freaky Stories

Happy Book Review Tuesday! For those of you reading daily, I promise there will be more of The Freebie, but not until Thursday. For today, well, tradition is tradition – BRT it is, and therefore book review/recommendations there must be! And tomorrow I have an excellent guest post lined up. So you shall have to […]

Hooray for Me, She Said or I WON!

I am pleased to report my first official writing contest winnings – I was chosen as the winner of the Spotlight Poetry Contest hosted by LenaSledgeBlog.com!!

If you’d like to see my poem, it is available here.

Thank you so much to everyone who voted for me, and also to Lena Sledge for […]