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

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

Archives

Two Childhood Favorites

This year  I’m going back and reading some of the favorite books I loved as a child. I shared them with my children and now I’m starting on the grandchildren. Today I am going to share two books with you by the same author, Robert McCloskey. The stories are different but the writing style is [...]

There’s A Bird On Your Head

 There Is a Bird on Your Head    by Mo Willems   Hyperion Books for Children, 2007    ISBN- 10: 1423106765   How great to have books for children that makes them laugh out loud. Mo Willems is the genius behind the Pigeon series of books that I’m familiar with. My three-year-old granddaughter, Lou, and I are [...]

Favourite Books From My Childhood

  I have a passion for children’s books. It is especially nice if I can read them to children. But, if none are available, I will read them to myself. So, I am especially pleased to join Lynda at The Holistic Knitter as she sponsors a six-month Childhood Favourite Book Challenge.  The challenge is to [...]

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday is when bloggers reveal just a couple sentences of a book they’re reading. This is hosted by the blogger at Should Be Reading. Here are the rules/guidelines: Grab the book you are currently reading. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share two “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines [...]

A Children’s Book for Christmas

  Prairie Night Before Christmas  ***Now in print as Cowboys Night Before Christmas  Written and Illustrated by James Rice Pelican Publishing Company, 1986 I’m showcasing this book for all you cowboys and cowboy lovers. It’s the story of “two lonely cowboys”  - the old cowhand and the youngster, who remind me of Dusty and Lefty [...]