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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: margot (DOT) peck (AT) gmail (DOT) com.

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A = Exellent Book . . . . B = Very good story . . . C = Good/Average. . . . D = Poor . . . . . . . . . . . F = So poor I couldn’t finish it

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Book Review: The Perfect Christmas

by Debbie Macomber
MIRA Books, 2009
My Rating: B
I think I’ve read almost all of Debbie Macomber’s stories. I get her newsletter and follow her website (especially the knitting section). So I guess you could call me a fan. It was a real treat when her publicist sent this Christmas book. Debbie always writes a Christmas story [...]

November 23rd, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, B Books, Book Challenges, Books, Read and Review Book Challenge | 7 comments

Book Review and Giveaway: The Christmas Clock

Kat Martin
Vanguard Press, 2009
My Rating: B
Kat Martin has written over forty novels – historicals, contemporaries, and romantic suspense. I’ve read her romantic suspense and loved them. When I had the chance to preview her new Christmas novel I was happy to say yes.
Ms. Martin has put together a nice little community of individual adults in [...]

November 2nd, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, B Books, Book Challenges, Books, Read and Review Book Challenge | 8 comments

Book Review: The Blue Heron Ranch Cookbook

by Nadia Natali
Illustrated by Marica Natali Thompson
North Atlantic Books, 2009
My Rating: B
In addition to recipes, The Blue Heron Ranch Cookbook is a story about the creation of the Blue Heron Ranch and Zen Retreat Center. It’s the story of how the Natali family bought forty acres near Ojai, California and built it into a meditation [...]

October 26th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, B Books, Book Challenges, Books, Books About Food, Read and Review Book Challenge, Spice of Life Challenge | 7 comments

Book Review: The Big Four

The Big Four
Agatha Christie
Dodd, Mead and Co., 1927
My Rating: B
Hercule Poirot is the star of this novel with his friend Captain Hastings as the narrator. The whole story starts with a strange man tumbling into Poirot’s rooms. He is barely able to communicate “The Big Four” before he dies mysteriously. Of course, our master sleuth [...]

October 12th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, Agatha Christie Challenge, B Books, Book Challenges, Books, R.I.P.Challenge, Read and Review Book Challenge | 8 comments

Book Review: Between Me and the River

Meet Carrie Host. She’s a young woman in her forties, happily married, with three children. She lives in Boulder, Colorado. The last thing she expected at this point in life was a diagnosis of cancer. But there she was, with her youngest child of ten months in her arms, down on the floor with a [...]

September 28th, 2009 | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, B Books, Book Challenges, Books, Read and Review Book Challenge | 11 comments

Blog Tour: Laced With Magic

Laced With Magic
Barbara Bretton
Penguin Books,2009
My Rating: B
Most of you know I don’t normally read books about anything paranormal. You will be surprised that I read this book plus really like it. There are two reasons why I said I’d participate in this Blog Tour: One is that I’ve been a Barbara Bretton fan for quite [...]

September 16th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, B Books, Book Challenges, Books, R.I.P.Challenge, Read and Review Book Challenge | 9 comments

Book Review: Under This Unbroken Sky

UNDER THIS UNBROKEN SKY
by Shandi Mitchell
Harper Collins, September 2009
My Rating: B

Teodor is an immigrant farmer in Canada in 1938. He was swindled out of his homestead and put in prison for attempting to steal his own grain. Being confined to a small prison cell nearly drove Teodor mad. He’s an outdoor man, used to working [...]

September 3rd, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, B Books, Book Challenges, Books, Read and Review Book Challenge | 10 comments