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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 Gods In Alabama
Sizzle
Poems by Emily Dickinson
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
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by Nora Roberts Berkley Books, 2009 My Rating: B+ This is Book Two in the Bride Quartet. My review of Book One is here. Book Three, Savor the Moment, is coming next week and I wanted to finish this one before number three arrived. It’s not absolutely necessary to read them in order, but it [...]
A Literary Road Trip is a chance for me to look closely at the authors who claim Kansas as home. [For why I chose Kansas, visit this blog post.] There are so many wonderful authors from the state that it makes me proud to feature them. The name Max McCoy comes up quite often around [...]
Last week I had the pleasure of having lunch with a real live Kansas author, Grant Williams. Our friends, Steve and Marjorie Swaim introduced Jay and I to Grant and his wife Bernice. What fun we had, sitting there long after the restaurant’s patrons were gone. Grant is one of those people who has a [...]
This stop on the Literary Road Trip is taking us to Independence, Kansas. Back in the 1920′s Independence was said to have more millionaires per capita than any other city in the country. That fact is important because it meant the town had many more cultural events than a normal town. Big name shows and [...]
As you know my husband and I have been on a Road Trip since we retired. So a Literary Road Trip sounded like something right up my alley. The question of which state to choose was a little tough at first because I have lived in quite a few states in my long life. But [...]
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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: 13/30
- Agatha Christie: 31/87
- American Battle of Prizes: 2/3
- British Battle of Prizes: 2/3
- European Challengwe: 0/5
- Foodies Read 2: 5/20
- What’s In A Name 5: 0/6
- Classics: 3/50
- Persephone: 0/3
- Virago: 0/3
Total books read: 37
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