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

Graphic Novel: The Plain Janes

by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg With lettering by Jared K. Fletcher Published by DC Comics, 2007 Cerrin and I read this graphic novel during the late hours of the 24 Hour Read-A-Thon. We knew we needed a change of pace from our regular reading to keep us going. It was short, quick, engaging and, [...]

Book Review: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Dial Press/Random House, 2009 My Rating: A+ Last Thursday I closed the last page of this book and I was eager to tell you about it. The problem was, I couldn’t. It touched me on so many levels that I didn’t have words to explain it. It took [...]

Reading Together: Jubal Sackett by Louis L’Amour

My husband, Jay, and I read this book together – he with his eyes and I with my ears. Jay is a Louis L’Amour fan. He owns all 105 of the books and has read all of them at least three or four times. He’s even met the author twice and has done lots of [...]

Book Group Read: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain Originally published in 1876 Synopsis: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a classic American tale of childhood in the mid-1800s. Tom Sawyer is mischievous, wily, he skips school and he sneaks out of the house at night. The story follows Tom and his friends through one adventure after another. The most serious [...]

The Secret Adversary – Agatha Christie

The Secret Adversary Agatha Christie Dodd, Mead & Company, 1922 This is my second book in the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge and thus her second book published. (I’m reading them all in order of publication.) This is the first novel in which Tommy and Tuppence are introduced. Here’s a brief synopsis of the story: Asked [...]