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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.

Currently Reading

The Art of Racing In the Rain

Peril At End House

Eternal On The Water

My Book Rating System

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: Vision In White

by Nora Roberts
Berkley Books, 2009
My Rating: B+
Several decades ago I picked up a Nora Roberts romance book and kept on reading every time she wrote a new one. Then she started trying out new twist to her stories. When she started with the paranormal stuff, I stopped reading her. Now she has a new series [...]

March 2nd, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, B Plus Book, Book Challenges, Books | 6 comments

Screenplay: The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep
Screenplay by William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furthman
Based on the book (same name) by Raymond Chandler
Directed by Howard Hawks
Released in 1946/Filmed in 1944, pre-release in 1945 but never in theatres
My Rating: B+
This month’s assignment for the Words Behind The Pictures Challenge was to pick one of three Humphrey Bogart film, read the [...]

November 30th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, B Plus Book, Book Challenges, Books, Movies, Read and Review Book Challenge, Words Behind the Pictures | 8 comments

Book Review: Spinning Forward

Terri DuLong
Kensington Books, 2009
My Rating: B+
Ever since Sydney married she has lived the good life in Boston with her doctor husband. She has not been employed outside the home since her wedding day twenty-eight years earlier. Now she finds herself a widow with no home, no money and no job. A good friend since their [...]

November 16th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, B Plus Book, Book Challenges, Books, Read and Review Book Challenge | 8 comments

Book Review: The Mystery of the Blue Train

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by Agatha Christie
Berkley Books, 1928
My Rating: B+
“. . . I had changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don’t want to, don’t much like what you are writing, and aren’t writing particularly well. I have always hated The Mystery of the [...]

November 9th, 2009 | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, Agatha Christie Challenge, B Plus Book, Book Challenges, Books, Read and Review Book Challenge | 11 comments