2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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A Slightly Odd Homage to Fathers Or “Hey, She’s Doing it Again!”

So some of you may recall that I did a few posts for Mother’s Day, featuring a bit o’ poetry, a free e-book and reviews of books featuring great mothers, and reviews of books featuring horrid mothers. Well, there seemed to be some decently positive responses to those, so I’m going to mimic them for […]

I Think I Am Going to Have to Do It or “Sigh,” She Said

Well, it’s official. I Think I Am Going To Have To Do It. Buy an e-reader, that is. Sigh, she said. I have been a fairly vocal opponent of this trend so far, and stand behind the basis for my primary complaints, which are as follows:

I love the feel of a book in […]

Banned Books – Seriously

I recently stumbled upon an article from American Libraries Magazine (courtesy of The Fiancee – who thought it would make a good post and was right, as usual), about challenged/banned books. From there, I found the American Library Association’s (ALA) webpage about challenged/banned books – including lists of the most commonly challenged/banned books by year […]

Book Review: The Corruptible

So here we are again on Book Review Tuesday. Today’s reviewed book: The Corruptible: A Ray Quinn Mystery by Mark Mynheir. I received The Corruptible for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review, conducted on behalf of Blogging for Books. This was my first official Advanced Reading Copy – ARC – review, which […]

Poetry For a Grey Saturday (that’s not actually a Saturday anymore)

Yes, yes – I know it says “for a grey SATURDAY” and today is, in fact, Monday. I wrote this Saturday and intended to post it then, but then was notified about my Major Award, so this post got bumped…

So here we are, a grey, soon-to-be-rainy Saturday, and I’m feeling a tish inspiration-less, […]