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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  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
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I went looking for simple, classic short stories centered on the celebration of Christmas. I found a nice collection of them called Home For Christmas. Some of the stories from the collection are available for download at The Plough. One story in the collection is this one, a very old tale handed down through many [...]
Maureen, after thirty years of marriage, became a widow. Although Maureen believes no one else knows, she was abused from the very beginning of her marriage. Her husband abused her via severe pinching, threats, and abusive language. Even though he is gone, Maureen still feels his control, but she is slowly and quietly living her [...]
I read some Raymond Carver short stories back in the 1970s, I recall liking them. So when I went looking for them again, I learned there were a few stories published posthumously. I chose to read Kindling because it won the O’Henry Award for Short Stories in 1999. What I like about Raymond Carver’s stories [...]
Clark, a young man now studying in Boston, tells us about his Aunt Georgiana. The first half of Georgiana’s life centered around music. By her early twenties she was a music teacher trained better than most. Then she met X, fell in love and eloped. Because they had little money, they moved to Nebraska to [...]
The first story I reviewed for Short Story Monday, back in January 2010, was a very clever story by Susan Glaspell. It was A Jury of Her Peers. I still remember how the story carefully unfolded and how the truth was only known by two of the women in the story and, of course, the [...]
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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: 3/30
- Agatha Christie: 29/87
- American Battle of Prizes: 0/3
- British Battle of Prizes: 0/3
- European Challengwe: 0/5
- Foodies Read 2: 1/20
- What’s In A Name 5: 0/6
- Classics: 0/6
- Persephone: 0/3
- Virago: 0/3
Total books read: 6
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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. 
