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

Saying It Well

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

Archives

Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Author: Louise Penny Publisher: Headline Book Publishing, 2005 Genre: Mystery/Police Procedural Source: I read this on my Kindle Short Synopsis: (from Amazon) Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montréal and yet [...]

Book Review: The Tapestry of Love

by Rosy Thornton Published by Headline Review, 2010 My Rating: A Last year I read and reviewed Rosy Thonton’s Crossed Wires. I thoroughly enjoyed that book, particularly the characters. I especially loved the three little girls. When she asked me if I’d like to read her new book, I didn’t hesitate to say yes. As [...]

Graphic Novel: The Arrival by Shaun Tan

I am so grateful to those of you who recommended I read a book by Shaun Tan and, in particular, The Arrival. I sat out under a tree for a couple of hours just absorbing this book. I read the whole book three times and some parts several more times. That’s a lot of reading [...]

Book Review: Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight

by Alexandra Fuller Random House, 2001 Rating: A It’s the 1970′s and Bobo (Alexandra) has been living in Rhodesia since she was two. She’s a young white girl, born to English parents. That’s her on the cover of the book. Don’t you love that expression on her face? She is curious, feisty while still being [...]