2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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Wicked, Evil, and Downright Mean: A (Slightly Unusual) Homage to Mother’s Day

Well, it’s obviously not Book Review Tuesday. Nonetheless, I have decided that a break with tradition is utterly acceptable and therefore today shall henceforth be known as Temporary Book Review Friday. The theme is Mother’s Day – but with a twist.

See, I’ve been thinking a lot about mothers lately. Not only is Mother’s Day […]

Top Ten Lists: Classics You Should Read That You Will Actually Enjoy

So I have decided to start crafting and posting my own personal “Top Ten” lists. I figure, people often ask me for recommendations or for my “favorite” books, and this is the quickest and easiest way I can think of to respond to those types of questions. You see, I have always had a hard […]

Non-Fiction Redux or When Truth Really IS Stranger than Fiction

When we last saw our Fearless Writer and the Tuesday Book Review, she was discussing the miracles of non-fiction (see “On Non-Fiction or When a Story is Not a ‘Story’”) and promising a follow-up post featuring reviews of some of her favorite non-fiction books. So here we are, one week later, and I am all […]

Flash, Bang, Zip (Fiction)

More fiction today – a little dark, but it WAS a pretty grey and depressing day today…

*** Flash, Bang, Zip

First, there was dark. And then, in an instant, light: over-bright, cliché light. The kind described in every Liftetime Made-for-TV Movie, every sappy love story. I was blinded by it until, in an instant, […]

Whistle While You Work or The Importance of Background Music

So my sister has come to visit for Easter (hi Mamy!), and she brought me a new copy of a CD mix she had burned for me years ago as well as some new music to listen to, and that got me to thinking about music and when I listen to it…

I have always […]