2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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Magic, or You Can Be Six Again

Outside the window The pure white mountain Is calling to us. I hurry into my coat. “Come on, Daddy!” Up the hill we climb – Sled in tow; My daddy and I, Ready to race down The mountain of snow. Afterwards We run inside, Rosy-cheeked And laughing, Sipping hot chocolate And planning another run. ***

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Not Just for Kids Anymore….

So it is Book Review Tuesday again (already – honestly, time really does fly!), and today’s topic is inspired a bit by last week’s comments about children’s book series and mostly by the books I saw sitting at the Franclehouse last night. I love the titles and cover art on children’s books. There are so […]

On Book Snobbery or Does It Matter What You Read or Only If You Read?

At the end of my last post, I mentioned “fluff” books – the trashy, non-literary, dirty-little-secret kind of mass market paperbacks found in grocery stores and airports that many (if not all) readers occasionally succumb to and most (if not all) of us enjoy (even if only secretly). I made a joke about not mentioning […]

Uneven Stevens

So it’s Book Review Tuesday, and I was trying to figure out what to write about. I didn’t really want to write about the book I finished today (Shadowfever, final book in the Fever Series by Karen Marie Moning) because while it was a very cool series (not exactly high literature but fun and interesting […]

What’s New

So I thought I’d use today’s post as an opportunity to mention the cool new stuff that is available through the website/blog. So, in no particular order, here’s what’s new:

My Annual Reading Lists – For a number of years now I have be compiling annual reading lists, including ratings of the books I read. […]