Welcome

Hi! My name is Margot. My blog is about the things I love to do. That could be what I'm reading, places we visit, my family, food, or whatever else is happening. I hope you'll stay and visit a while. Contact me by email: joyfullyretired (at) gmail (dot) com.

What I’m Reading

Gods In Alabama

Sizzle

Poems by Emily Dickinson

Read-A-Longs

Clarissa

My Book Rating System

A = Excellent in every way
B = Very good story
C  = Good/Average
D = Poor
F = So Bad I couldn't finish it

Archives

Book Review: The Big Sky

Author: A.B. Guthrie Publisher: William Sloane Associates, 1947 Genre: Western My Rating: A Two years ago I read The Way West by A.B. Guthrie. It was a moving historical fiction about one of the first treks of settlers over the Oregon Trail. (My review is HERE.) That book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in [...]

Books Review: Guilt By Association

Rachel Knight is a Deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles. She’s in the elite Special Trials Unit where they handle sensitive cases. Her two best friends are Toni, another Deputy DA in Special Trials and Bailey, a LAPD Detective. All three seem to be in their mid to late thirties and are pretty hip (Does [...]

Book Review and Book Chat: Hotel On the Corner Of Bitter and Sweet

Tomorrow night we’ll be having our special chat about a book many of us have been reading this past month: Hotel On the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. This debut novel by Jamie Ford is a look at a set of circumstances many of us are ignorant about – the evacuation of Japanese Americans in [...]

Book Tour: The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted by Bridget Asher

“Every good love story has another love hiding within it.” Brokenhearted and still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi travels with Abbott, her obsessive-compulsive seven-year-old son, and Charlotte, her jaded sixteen-year-old niece, to the small village of Puyloubier in the south of France, where a crumbling stone house may be responsible for mending hearts [...]

Book Review: Every Last One

Author: Anna Quindlen Publisher: My Rating: A I wanted to read this book because of the author. I read her newspaper and magazine columns for years and I feel as if I know her. I also think she knows me. Her writing tells me that she has either been inside my head or has had [...]