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: Clara and Mr. Tiffany

Good morning friends and family. I’m back – maybe not full force with typing skills – but recovering nicely from the carpal tunnel surgery. It has been a strange few weeks, trying to do everything with just my left hand. I now have a new appreciation for these wonderful appendages. I still can’t type for [...]

Book Review: Come and Find Me

Author: Hallie Ephron Publisher: William Morrow, February 28, 2012 Summary: Diana has become a recluse ever since her boyfriend died a little over a year ago. She is vey tech-savvy and spends all of her time in cyberspace. She’s a former hacker, but now she is a partner in an online security business. All of [...]

Book Review: Our Man In the Dark

  Author: Rashad Harrison Publisher: Atria Books, 2011 Genre: Historical Fiction My Rating: B Summary (from the publisher): A stunning debut historical noir novel about a worker in the civil rights movement who became an informant for the FBI during the months leading up to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Feeling unappreciated and [...]

Book Review: The Christmas List

Author: Richard Paul Evans Publisher: Genre: Christmas Tale Format: Audiobook, Narrated by John Dossett Source: Public Library My Rating: B I’m sure you are familiar with Scrooge, the star of Dicken’s A hristmas Carol. He was a ruthless, hateful man until he met the Ghosts of Christmas’ Past, Present, and Future. His meeting with the ghosts [...]

Book Review: Dumb Witness

Author: Agatha Christie Publisher: Harper Collins Original Copyright Date: 1937 Genre: Mystery My Rating: B Dumb Witness starts out like many other classic novels. It’s set in a small village, in one of the old family houses. The story is concerned with the last remaining family member, Emily Arundell, a wealthy woman in her seventies, [...]