Hello everyone, Happy New Year. Hope there were fireworks. I'm wrapping up a really busy 2025, so we have a lot to talk about there. Most of it I've already touched on during earlier posts this week, but I want everything in one post for those who have missed last week's announcements. I've got some …
Tag: reading challenge
Jayde’s Book Bingo Challenge 2026
The moment you've all been waiting for is here, behold, my 2026 Book Bingo Card. This was generated with my randomized Book Bingo Generator, which every year I fire up so it's always a surprise what I'll have to do. I've already shown off the design, but now here it is with the challenges all …
2025 Book Bingo Wrap Up
Welcome to the wrap up of my 2025 Book Bingo Challenge. I will try to keep the preamble short, because I have a lot of books to review here. First, let's see what my card looks like now that the year is done. I did really well this year, with the only two tiles missing …
My 2025 Wrap-Up
2025 is almost over, and I managed to get a lot done. Not as much as I would have liked, but there's been some downs this year, so that's to be expected. At the start of the year I set myself a few goals, so now it's time to see how I went. These were …
2025 Book Bingo Reviews #4
Got another book bingo. So time for another set of reviews. We've got a bunch of really good stories here... plus one I hated. But talking about books I didn't like is sort of fun. Anyway, can't waste too much time on an intro; I still have six squares to fill and I'm running out …
2025 Book Bingo Reviews #3
I got another bingo on my Book Bingo Card, so now it's time for some reviews. I'm making a lot of progress on this card. Not sure if I'll be able to finish it, but for now I have five good books to talk about. This was a very horror focused line, which is not …
2025 Book Bingo Reviews #2
After taking eight months to get my first Book Bingo, the 2nd one is ready right away. Hopefully the rest of the card fills up quickly. For now though, let's get to the best part of the Book Bingo challenge; talking about the books I've read. If you want to know all the details of …
Welcome to 2024
First week of 2024, and now that I'm all settled in it's time to talk about my plans for the year. Mostly reading and gaming plans, since writing plans are pretty much 'keep on doing what I'm doing'. Book Bingo Card First things first, I have a new Book Bingo Card for 2024. I've just …
2023 Wrap Up
Hello everyone. With 2023 coming to an end, now seems like a good time to wrap up my year in reading and writing. This is a bit of a hard thing to do, because I feel that the last three years have been one massive blur. It was surprise to me to starting writing about …
Hello 2023 – Updates and New Bingo Card
Hello everyone, welcome to 2023. I haven't been very active on my blog lately, but there is still a lot happening behind the scenes that I think you might find interesting. First let's talk about 2022. I published two stories this year for the weekly Reedsy Writing Prompts contest, Paula's Refuge in October and A …
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