2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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Frozen (Fiction)

A little bit o’ fiction for your Monday morning enjoyment. I’m starting to wonder a little bit about myself, by the way. I’m starting to notice a decided tone/direction to my short fiction pieces… (teehee) Enjoy! ***

Frozen Finally, it’s lunchtime. Best time of the day. Time to see the wife.

I get up and […]

Moody Blues or The Surprising Way a Book Can Affect My Day

So I am reading The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers. For those of you who are unfamiliar, it is a story about a twelve year-old girl who is rather out of sorts with the world because her brother is getting married (and also one suspects because she is a twelve year-old girl – […]

Mr. Withersby (Fiction)

So on this Wednesday morning, I offer the following little bit of fiction for your reading pleasure. It owes its life to an idea from The Fiancee (teehee – I love how pretentious that word sounds!) – someone who has wild and intense story ideas but occasionally needs someone to translate them for him… 🙂 […]

Top Ten Lists: Biographies/Autobiographies or Why Is Everyone Else’s Life so Interesting?

So I know it’s Book Review Tuesday, but this week it’s going to be a combination book review/top ten list day. As I have mentioned previously, I am now doing book reviews for several publishers, writers, and/or book review websites. As I have also mentioned previously (in nearly every Tuesday post, as a matter of […]

Hooray for Me or I Made it to the Literary Spotlight!

So hooray for me indeed, she said! I recently submitted one of my flash fiction pieces (“Flash, Bang, Zip”), which I published here on the blog last month to another blog (Books Ahoy) for their Literary Spotlight (authors are invited to submit works of fiction or poetry and every week five are chosen for publication). […]