Bury Your Dead
Looking For Me
Cottage at Glass BeachAuthor: Sonia Sotomayor Publisher: Knopf, January 2013/Ramdom House Audio Format: Audiobook, Read by Rita Moreno Genre: Memoir My Rating: A+ Some of us believe that the people who sit in positions of power are born with a silver spoon in their mouths. They are wrong. Sonia Sotomayor’s life proves that there are outstanding exceptions to [...]
|
|
||
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.
|
Author: Louise Penny Publisher: Genre: Mystery My Rating: A+ Twenty minutes ago I finished reading The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny. I should probably wait to tell you my thoughts because they aren’t very coherent. I’m at a WOW! phase. I feel as if I should do nothing but tell you to just go read [...] Author: Heather Lende Publisher: Algonquin Books, 2006 My Rating: A+ One of the best things about traveling, for me at least, is to try to absorb what it’s like to live in the place where I’m visiting. That’s why I like to linger at local diners, shop at local stores, and so forth. Engaging [...] Author: Harper Lee Publisher: J.B. Lippincott, 1960 Genre: Literary Fiction My Rating: A+ To Kill a Mockingbird was a unanimous choice by the members of my book club. It was a reread for all of us. As I suspected, the meeting was nothing but a love-fest in tribute to the book and author. All eight [...] Two of my favorite A+ books that I’ve read the past few years are both by the same author: Erica Bauermeister. Her last book, Joy for Beginners, is one I thoroughly loved. My eldest daughter and I have recommended it to a good percentage of the population. An even greater percentage of the population read [...] Author: Kelly O’Connor McNees Publisher: Berkley Trade, October, 2012 Genre: Literary Fiction/Historical Fiction My Rating: A+ Kelly O’Connor McNees is a superb writer. She proved it to me in her debut novel, The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott. (Click the title for my review.) In that book she made me want to go back and [...] Author: Louise Penny Publisher: Minotaur, 2011 Genre: Mystery My Rating: A+ Summary: In the Quebec village of Three Pines, it’s the month of April. Residents are hiding eggs and preparing for seasonal parties. But, there’s also something unusual: there is a real witch staying at the B and B. Just for fun, some of the [...] Author: Willa Cather Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1918 Genre: Classic Fiction My Rating: A+ Jim Burden was a ten year old Virginia boy whose parents died within a year of each other. As the story opened Jim was on a train with Jake, a hired hands. They were on their way to Nebraska to live with [...] Author: Gary D. Schmidt Publisher: Clarion Books, 2011 Genre: YA Historical Fiction My Rating: A+ I first wanted to listen to this boA+ok when I learned it won The Odyssey Award. That’s an award for the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults. It was so good I decided to read the hardcopy. Honestly, [...] Agatha Christie created a challenge for both herself and her readers in writing this, her first “nursery rhyme” mystery. Ten strangers (eight guests and two servants) are lured in various ways to a remote island off the coast of Devon by a Mr. and Mrs. U.N. Owen. There seems to be no one else on [...] |
Goal: 28/93
What's In a Name?6 Goal: 1/6
Goal: 7/50  |
|
Copyright © 2013 Joyfully Retired - All Rights Reserved |
||
