I am NOT doing any official reading challenges this year.  I've said no to them all, even ones that sounded brilliant and easy to accomplish.  It's a matter of principle (and not making myself feel like a fail). However, I have been doing my own personal Sherlock Holmes "challenge."  Really the challenge is to stop reading before 3 am.  It's not a challenge to read any of these books.  I've been working my way through The Complete...

Death Benefits is the second book in Becton’s Southern Fraud Thriller series  I read the first book, Absolute Liability and loved it so I’ve been waiting impatiently for the follow up.  The Southern Fraud series centers on Special Investigator Julia Jackson who works for the Georgia Department of Insurance, and just like in Absolute Liability I found it easy to identify with Julia.  She’s smart and capable, but she doesn’t try to be...

What's the Self-Published Reading Challenge you ask?  Good question!  See my post about it here.  I've committed to the "Paragraph Level" which means I will be reading 10 books by self-published authors. I've made a decent dent in my goal this month by reading three.  Two reviews were for Indie Jane, and one I reviewed just for my blog.   First up is Dear Miss Darcy by Laura Briggs and Sarah Burgess.  I reviewed Dear Miss...

The lovely Rebecca at A Word's Worth has alerted me to another reading challenge that I absolutely have to participate in this year.  I realize this only brings me up to two challenges (both of which I blame on Rebecca, er, I mean thank Rebecca for), but it kind of feels more challenging when added on top of my insane writing schedule!  I can't say no to this one though!  I am so excited to be participating in the 2012 Fairy Tale Challenge on...

My entire life is running about a week behind at the moment.  Last week was completely consumed by an evil virus that made it's way through my house with no mercy.  Losing seven days in the middle of December is just fabulous.  Especially when you've left all your Christmas prep for the last minute.  Planning Fail.   But I digress.  Another thing that's been left to the last moment is goals/challenges for the coming year.  Here...