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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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My husband and I are reading the book, Jubal Sackett, together. It’s a historical fiction from the 1700′s. Jubal Sackett is a young man traveling across America from South Carolina to Colorado. At the time, of course, those weren’t states. This was raw country populated by Indian tribes and wild animals. A long time I [...]
I haven’t played Teaser Tuesday in quite a while but I felt like participating today. I’m reading a nice cozy murder mystery and want to share it with you. It centers around a group of friends who have decided to take cooking lessons. The book is Chile Con Corpses by J.B. Stanley. Here are a [...]
I’m on the stage singing the blues and jazz as well as acting. I’m also on Broadway and in movies. I’m a part of the great Harlem Renaissance of the 1920′s and ’30s but my career stretched way beyond that period. I’m reading His Eye Is On The Sparrow by Ethel Waters for this month’s [...]
I’m in Boston hanging out with Charlotte McNally, an award-winning investigative TV journalist. She’s under pressure to come up with a blockbuster story for the upcoming “sweeps” at the TV station. Charlie suspects there is something strange and dangerous behind a series of email spam, she’s been getting. But is there a good story there? [...]
The Herdmans were absolutely the worst kids in the history of the world. They lied and stole and smoked cigars (even the girls) and talked dirty and hit little kids and cussed their teachers and took the name of the Lord in vain and set fire to Fred Shoemaker’s old broken-down toolhouse. Those sentences are [...]
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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
2012 Book Challenge I’m Hosting  Click the button to sign up
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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. 
