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 and Book Review: Everyone is Watching by Heather Gudenkauf

About the Book

The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive.

Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the world. Completely secluded in an estate in Northern California, with strict instructions not to leave the property and zero contact with the outside world, the competitors start to feel a little too isolated. Continue reading Excerpt and Book Review: Everyone is Watching by Heather Gudenkauf

Excerpt: The Day Tripper by James Goodhand

About the Book

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

About the Book

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

About the Book

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