2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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When Littler Actually is Bigger: On Flash Fiction (Includes “The Boys”)

So as I may have mentioned previously, I am trying to not only write a blog but to actually write stories (short and long). Well, turns out it is quite a bit easier to blog three-to-four times a week than to write either short stories or novels, and I’m starting to run into dangerous ground […]

Story Hour (Fiction)

So I wanted to post some more fiction since that is, after all, supposed to be the whole point of the blog – to get me to write more fiction. I wrote this today – it started as an attempt at “Flash Fiction” (i.e., very short pieces of less than 1000 words), but as with […]

Five Orange Stickers and a Dark Blue!

Today was the used book sale at the Richmond Memorial Library (the hometown library) and it was a Very Good Day there for me today – five orange stickers and a dark blue, which means that I got to leave with three hardcover and three soft-cover books for the beyond-a-bargain price of $2.75. Yup, less […]

On Aunt Ruth: Or Why I am Me

It’s book review Tuesday again (seriously, where does the week go?! Not that I mind writing book reviews again – I quite enjoy them – but eek already with how quickly seven days seem to go by!), and today’s topic is brought to you courtesy of Aunt Ruth. A lucky few of you will have […]

On Challenges and Obstacles

So I have taken on a reading challenge for 2011. Yes, I know, those of you who know me are thinking that this is nothing new, I read all the time, yadda yadda, blah blah blah. But this is a formal challenge – 111 in ’11 – which is a feature on another blog that […]