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

The Confession

Gods In Alabama

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 Teaser From: A Separate Country

Tuesday is the day I throw out a few sentences and try to tempt you into reading one of the books I’m reading. This is sponsored by MizB at Should Be Reading. The children had been carted over to their grandmother’s apartment for the evening, and so the only sound I heard when I came back [...]

Teasers on Tuesday: The Recipe Club

It’s Tuesday  . . .  Where are you? I’m right here in the US snooping at the emails and letters of two women who have been friends since childhood.  Well, that is, until something came between them and they haven’t spoken in years.  The one thing they have that links them together is their own [...]

It’s Teaser Time: The Joy Luck Club

Teaser Tuesday is the day I throw out a few sentences and try to tempt you into reading one of the books I’m reading. And then we get to the room in the back, which was once shared by the three Hsu girls. We were all childhood friends. And now they’ve all grown and married [...]

It’s Tuesday: Time For Some Teasers!

Tuesday is the day I throw out a few sentences and try to tempt you into reading one of the books I’m reading. This feature is sponsored by MizB at Should Be Reading. STACY: It is. It’s very warm. I wonder how long it will last? RON: Are you really nineteen? STACY: Yes… I am really nineteen. [They continue making [...]

It’s Tuesday: Cooking School Murders

Tuesday is the day I throw out a few sentences and try to tempt you into reading one of the books I’m reading. This is sponsored by MizB at Should Be Reading. For more teasers click on the image on the right. The boys dropped their lines and let the gentle movement of the water [...]