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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Book Blurb: Hell by Robert Olen Butler

This was my first foray into Robert Olen Butler’s world, back in the day; suffice to say I am now hooked and completely understand how he won a Pulitzer. How can you not love a book whose main character – the anchorman from Hell, literally – manages to be both hero and anti-hero at the […]

The Official, What-Else-Is-There, Blog Thought for Today…

Blogging is not writing. It is graffiti with punctuation.

from Contagion (2011, Steven Soderbergh)

Really, what more can I say??

(Notice, I ALWAYS use punctuation. A lot of it. I know my blogging…)

Not-Quite-A-Review: The Masked City by Genevieve Cogman

So here’s another one of those “I’m still reading but had to share” posts… This time about The Masked City, the second book in Genevieve Cogman’s superlative “Invisible Library” series. And hooray – it’s almost as good as the first in the trilogy! I say hooray and sound surprised because, in my experience, the middle […]

Book Review: The Human Superorganism by Dr. Rodney Dietert

My review copy of this interesting book was graciously provided by the publisher.

“What if the very basis of what a human is was radically different from what we were taught as children?”

Thus opens The Human Superorganism, Dr. Rodney Dietert’s exegesis on rethinking human biology and human health. It’s a provocative idea that leads […]

Not Quite A Review: Superheroes Anonymous by Lexie Dunn

I seem to find myself compelled to write these blurb things up more and more lately while I’m in the middle of the book – it’s mostly because I’m a beta-writer on BookBub’s new Buzz (if you haven’t seen it, check it out – it’s still join-by-invitation only, but I can invite you so let […]