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10.5 for 2025

At what point do back-to-back failures turn into an achievement? Yes, I do mean the Goodreads Reading Challenge – again. I set a goal of fifteen books...

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S.E. Palmer
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Drifting onto Audible

You might recall that I once tried to launch an audiobook through Google Play, using their charmingly robotic automatic voiceover. If you missed out on that audiobook...

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S.E. Palmer
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11 in 2024

I set a lofty reading goal in 2024. I was going to read twenty-five books. Devour them like a Dominos pizza. Read all twenty-five and carry on...

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S.E. Palmer
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Reality vs Fantasy

When it comes to fiction, we’re all looking for an escape. If we didn’t want to escape, we’d read non-fiction, right? As simple as it seems on...

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S.E. Palmer
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The Social Tide

You may recall I once wrote about social media and it’s many pitfalls – Are you the user or the used? The post followed my latest attempt...

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S.E. Palmer