2024 Reading Challenge

2024 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 1 book toward her goal of 285 books.
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2023 Reading Challenge

2023 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 5 books toward her goal of 265 books.
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Excerpt: The Day Tripper by James Goodhand

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It’s 1995, and twenty-year-old Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an amazing woman named Holly and all the time in the world ahead of him. That is until a brutal encounter with a ghost from his past sees him beaten, battered and almost drowning in the Thames. Continue reading Excerpt: The Day Tripper by James Goodhand

Book Review AND Excerpt: Murder Road by Simone St. James

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Excerpt: What Grows in the Dark by Jaq Evans

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This chilling tale of siblings, the emotional toll of the places you once called home, and the necessity of confronting and moving beyond past trauma brings together the psychological horror of The Babadook with the found footage and supernatural eeriness of The Blair Witch Project. Continue reading Excerpt: What Grows in the Dark by Jaq Evans

Excerpt: No More Empty Spaces by D.J. Green

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In No More Empty Spaces, Will Ross, a divorced American geologist, takes his three children to a remote, rugged part of Turkey where he has signed on to work on construction of a troubled dam. Once in Turkey, Will finds himself struggling for control—of his family, his work, the landscape the dam is to be built on, and ultimately, himself. Here, read what his oldest child, 15-year-old Kevin, thinks about the family’s arrival in Turkey—and finding a faithful companion, Buddy, an Anatolian shepherd puppy who is as lost as Kevin feels. Continue reading Excerpt: No More Empty Spaces by D.J. Green

Excerpt: Necessary Deeds by Mark Wish

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Matt Connell, a formerly successful literary agent who’ s been in prison for four years for a crime of passion— homicide by strangulation after learning his wife slept with a friend— receives an early release from Sing Sing to join an FBI undercover investigation of multiple murders in Manhattan. Killings continue to mount as Matt does his best to calm his “ Ferrari brain” — a condition in which his mind accelerates wildly into negative thoughts and worst-case scenarios— even as he falls in love with a suspect, then discovers disturbing truths about his past and hers. When he finds his own life in danger, can he stand up for the Bureau’ s heralded principles of Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity? Not to mention genuine love? Continue reading Excerpt: Necessary Deeds by Mark Wish