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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: joyfullyretired (at) gmail (dot) com.
What I’m Reading Justice
Forever
The Sense of an Ending
Wish You Were Here
A Moveable Feast
Clarissa
The Odyssey
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
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Agatha Christie Makes a Mistake Agatha Christie is well known for her “locked door” mysteries. Death In the Air is a version of the locked door. Passengers are in the air flying from France to England. During that flight a woman is murdered and everyone on the plane is a suspect, includine Hercule Poirot. The [...]
Author: Agatha Christie Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1935 Genre: Cozy Mystery My Rating: C+ Murder In Three Acts (or Three Act Tragedy) is considered one of Hercule Poirot’s stories but I think it’s quite a different role for him. He’s always been the keenest observer of little details, but that’s to be his major [...]
Author: Agatha Christie Publisher: Originally published by Odhams Press in 1933 in the UK. Published in the US by HarperCollins in 1964. Genre: Mystery Format: Hardcover Source: Library Short Synopsis: This is a book of twelve short stories all written in the 1920′s and published in magazines in England. What is unique about these stories [...]
Last year I had the privilege of interviewing Miss Marple. (You can read my interview HERE.) Since that time we’ve become good friends. We have a lot in common: we both love to knit something useful with soft, luxurious yarn; we both love the garden, although we can’t do anything heavy anymore; and we both [...]
by Agatha Christie Dodd, Mead and Company, 1930 My Rating: B+ Mr. Satterthwaite and Mr. Quin are two men featured in the twelve stories compiled into The Mysterious Mr. Quin. The stories were originally published in magazines in England the 1920′s. Each one of the stories is subtle detective work for Mr. Satterthwaite. Not a lot [...]
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What You’ll Find On My Blog: *Book Reviews Click the button to go to my 2012 Book List
2012 CHALLENGES:
- Library books: 3/30
- Agatha Christie: 29/87
- American Battle of Prizes: 0/3
- British Battle of Prizes: 0/3
- European Challengwe: 0/5
- Foodies Read 2: 1/20
- What’s In A Name 5: 0/6
- Classics: 0/6
- Persephone: 0/3
- Virago: 0/3
Total books read: 8
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