2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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Well, Jim Butcher, You’ve Done It Again!

So I just finished Ghost Story, the latest installment in the Dresden Files – probably my favorite sci-fi/fantasy series of all time. And I have to say: wow. Yet again, wow. How on earth Butcher manages to keep coming up with long, involved, original, interconnected-yet-never-derivate plots is utterly beyond me.

For those of you who […]

Guest Post: Why Do I Like to Write Horror Stories?

Today’s guest post offers great insight into why writers write in general, as well as why Paul Dail, today’s gust post author, writes in his particular genre: horror. Thanks so much to Paul for offering us a trip into his head… ***

If you’ll notice, there are really three questions in the title to this […]

Another Jill-Elizabeth List Makes Its Mark on the World!

Just a quick heads up that I have had another top ten list posted on AllYouNeedIsLists.com. You can check it out here. It is a compilation of ten non-fiction stories that read like fiction. Enjoy!

 

An Homage to Bookplates or What do You Know, Jill-Elizabeth is Oddly Old-Fashioned

I have a bizarre love of bookplates. Yes, I know, you are shocked that I, Jill-Elizabeth, love something book-related. And you are shocked that I, Jill-Elizabeth, love something anachronistic. And something that marks books as mine, mine, all mine.

It’s true.

I love bookplates. Ever since I was a little girl and received my first […]

I Wanted to Like Them, I Swear I Did!

It has happened again. I read a synopsis of a book that sounded fascinating, ordered, received and read said book, and… (wait for it) … I hated it. Sigh. This doesn’t happen all the time, mind you, but it has happened often enough to frustrate me (and to scare me to death – what if […]