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

Saying It Well

Justice

Forever

The Sense of an Ending

Wish You Were Here

A Moveable Feast

Clarissa

The Odyssey

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 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 [...]

Book Review: The South Lawn Plot

Author: Ray O’Hanlon Publisher: GemmaMedia, 2011 My Rating: A Summary from the publisher: Nick Bailey considers himself a hardboiled reporter for London’s hungriest tabloid. But even Bailey is left reaching for answers when he gets a midnight assignment to investigate a body hanging from the infamous Blackfriars Bridge. Someone, it seems, is killing priests. It’s [...]

Book Review and Giveaway: Radio Shangri-La

Author: Lisa Napoli Publisher: Crown Publishing, 2011 Genre: Memoir/Travelouque Format: Hardcover Source: From the publisher for a TLC Book Tour My Rating: A Radio Shangri-La is the uplifting story of a journey, one that is both physical and internal. Lisa Napoli, a well-known public radio journalist (Market Place) takes us along with her as she [...]