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

The Red Pony

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

A Visit With Jane Marple

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 [...]

Book Review: The Mysterious Mr. Quin

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 [...]

My Progress In Reading Agatha Christie

Those of you who read my blog regularly know that I am attempting to read all of Agatha Christie’s published works in order of their publication date. Up to this point I’ve managed to plow right through books published up to 1934. I’ve read a total of 16. While doing some research on Three Act [...]

Agatha Christie: Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

I’ve been reading Agatha Christie’s books in publication order. This is the 17th book and one of the few that does not feature one of her famous detectives. There is no Hercule Poirot, no Miss Marple, nor Tommy and Tuppence. In Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? Ms. Christie introduced Bobby Jones and Lady Frances or [...]

Book and Movie: Murder On the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie Dodd, Mead and Company, 1934 My Rating: A+ Back in the 1970s the movie version of Murder On the Orient Express was a smash hit. After seeing the movie I read the book. I liked both book and movie then and I really liked them now, as you can see from my [...]