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

Happy Valentines Day Everyone

Every reader has their own opinion about what should be read to celebrate this day devoted to love. Many people like poetry. I favor standing in a Hallmark store reading card after card. But then I also love a good book filled with the tension that comes with new love. I’ve always been a Nora [...]

Book Review: Savor The Moment

by Nora Roberts Berkley Books, 2010 My Rating: A Laurel McBane is the pastry chef at Vows, the wedding planning company she co-owns with her three best friends. The four friends have been close since childhood. In fact, one of their favorite childhood games was playing Wedding Day. Now, as adults, they manage to execute [...]

Book Review: Bed of Roses

by Nora Roberts Berkley Books, 2009 My Rating: B+ This is Book Two in the Bride Quartet. My review of Book One is here. Book Three, Savor the Moment, is coming next week and I wanted to finish this one before number three arrived. It’s not absolutely necessary to read them in order, but it [...]

Book Review: Vision In White

by Nora Roberts Berkley Books, 2009 My Rating: B+ Several decades ago I picked up a Nora Roberts romance book and kept on reading every time she wrote a new one. Then she started trying out new twist to her stories. When she started with the paranormal stuff, I stopped reading her. Now she has [...]

Book Review: Blue Smoke by Nora Roberts

“Catarina Hale’s childhood ended on a steamy August night a few hours after the Orioles demolished the Rangers at Memorial Stadium, kicking their Texas butts — as her dad said — nine to one.” Reena (Catarina) was eleven-years-old that night when she witnessed the horror of the fire that was deliberately set in her family’s [...]