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

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

Archives

Another Cookbook Treat

Last Saturday I told you I’d received two great cookbooks within one week. The first one was The Book Club Cookbook. (Click title for my review.) I thoroughly enjoyed that book; am still enjoying it. The second book was also enjoyable. It was such a treat that I stopped doing anything else for two days. [...]

Book Review: The Book Club Cookbook

by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp Published by Penguin, March 2012 Last week I received two unsolicited cookbooks. They both gave me hours and hours of happy reading. Today I’d like to tell you about the first one and next week I’ll tell you about the second. The Book Club Cookbook is a revised [...]

Book Review: The Body in the Library

Author: Agatha Christie Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1942 Genre: Mystery My Rating: A+ I have been faithfully reading Agatha Christie’s novels in publication order. I’ve worked my way up to the late 1930s. Then I started to get bogged down. The stories were beginning to feel dark and sad. I know this time period [...]

Book Review: Come and Find Me

Author: Hallie Ephron Publisher: William Morrow, February 28, 2012 Summary: Diana has become a recluse ever since her boyfriend died a little over a year ago. She is vey tech-savvy and spends all of her time in cyberspace. She’s a former hacker, but now she is a partner in an online security business. All of [...]

Book Review: Just Tacos by Shelley Wiseman

I enjoy eating tacos and they have been one of my go-to meals for a very long time. When my children were young all I had to say was “Taco Night” and their sweet little faces would light up. Some things have changed since those days. For one thing, I no longer deep-fat fry the [...]