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

Currently Reading

Lonely Hearts Club

Lincoln Lawyer

My Book Rating System

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

Thanks For Commenting

  • rhapsodyi... (28)
  • Staci- Li... (27)
  • bermudaon... (23)
  • Stacy (23)
  • Beth F (19)
  • cerrin (18)
  • BooksPlease (14)
  • Molly (14)
  • Sallie (F... (12)
  • caite (10)
  • Barbara (9)
  • JoAnn (9)
  • Nan (8)
  • kaye (7)
  • Bumbles (6)
  • Tami and ... (6)
  • Belle (4)
  • candice (4)
  • carol (4)
  • Heather (4)

Agatha Christie: Peril At End House

Nick Buckley seems to be one of those young women I associate with the 1920’s who spent her time floating around with no real cares. She’s the mistress of a big old house, End House, in a beautiful resort town. Her friends visit quite often. No one seems to have a job.
The “world’s greatest detective,” [...]

Another Book By Agatha Christie

The Sittaford Mystery was published in the United States as The Murder at Hazelmoor. As I got into this book I realized that the two titles are very true of this story. There is both a murder to be solved at Hazelmoor and a mystery begging to be solved at Sittaford. Let me explain.
Sittaford House was [...]

Agatha Christie: Murder at the Vicarage

I’m in a challenge to read all the Agatha Christie mysteries in order of when they were published. In many cases these are re-reads for me. I’ve been a fan since my teens. I’ve read eleven books so far for the challenge, and not until Murder at the Vicarage did I meet Miss Marple. Finally [...]

Book Review: The Seven Dials Mystery

I just finished reading this tenth published novel of Agatha Christie. In it she brought back a familiar place and some familiar characters. The setting is the country estate, Chimneys, which was the setting for her sixth novel, The Secret at Chimneys (1925). Ms. Christie meant The Seven Dials Mystery to be a sequel [...]

Book Review: The Mystery of the Blue Train

`
`
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 [...]

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 [...]

Agatha Christie Week And BBAW

This week is both Agatha Christie Week and Book Bloggers Appreciation Week (BBAW). For me they go together. Today’s assignment for BBAW is this:
Talk about a book you read only because you discovered it on another book blog.
In my case it was more about the bookS and how I’m reading them. You see I’ve been reading Agatha [...]