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: The Spellman Files

Author: Lisa Lutz Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2007 Genre: Mystery My Rating: B+ Summary (from the author’s website): Isabel Spellman, the uncompromising—okay, obstinate—twenty-eight year-old San Francisco private eye in Lisa Lutz’s riotous debut novel, THE SPELLMAN FILES has her share of problems. And those problems all happen to be named Spellman.Her parents, Albert and Olivia, [...]

Book Review: Last Night at the Lobster

Author: Stewart O’Nan Publisher: Penguin, 2008 Format: Audiobook, Narrated by Jonathan Davis My Rating: A Summary (from the publisher): The Red Lobster perched in the far corner of a run-down New England mall hasn’t been making its numbers and headquarters has pulled the plug. But manager Manny DeLeon still needs to navigate a tricky last shift [...]

Book Review: Bossypants

Author: Tina Fey Publisher: Hachette Audio, 2011 Narrator: Tina Fey Genre: Memoir My Rating: A     Summary from the publisher: Before Liz Lemon, before “Weekend Update,” before “Sarah Palin,” Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her [...]

Book Review: The Fifth Witness

As I’ve mentioned before, I like Mickey Haller. He’s Michael Connelly‘s favorite defense attorney. He might be just a notch above slimy but he’s smart and knows how to fight and manipulate a legal case in favor of his clients. Plus, he’s fun to follow. In The Fifth Witness, we find that Mickey has been [...]

Book Review: Not My Daughter

Author: Barbara Delinshy Publisher: Doubleday, 2010 Genre: Women’s Fiction Format:  Audiobook / Narrated by Cassandra Campbell Source: Public Library My Rating: B+ Susan is a successful high school principal in a small town in New England, although it hasn’t always been easy. She was kicked out of home at seventeen when she was pregnant and [...]