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

Book Review: Fatal Grace by Louise Penny

Last November I read Louise Penny’s first novel, Still Life. I loved it and knew I wanted to read her second novel, Fatal Grace. She didn’t disappoint me at all. Fatal Grace was the Agatha Award Winner for Best Novel of 2007. That should tell you that lots of people, including me, really liked book [...]

Agatha Christie: Death In the Air

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 [...]

Book Review: Sweet Revenge

Author: Diane Mott Davidson Publisher: HarperCollins, 2007 Genre: Cozy Mystery Form: Audio {Barbara Rosenblatt, narrator] Sweet Revenge is book #14 in Diane Mott Davidson’s Goldy’s Catering Series. I’ve been reading them one at a time for at least a decade. I like Goldy and her family and friends and her nice Colorado community. But – [...]

Book Review: Murder In Three Acts

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 [...]

Book Review: Dead Politician Society: A Clare Vengel Undercover Novel

Author: Robin Spano Publisher: ECW Press, 2010 Genre: Mystery Format: Kindle I’ve been in the mood to read good mysteries. After reading Burying the Hatchet by Chris Well (my review is here), where the main character was an amateur sleuth, I was looking for a mystery with a bit more action, a bit more spice. I [...]