Do you have Arlene Sachitano,Sally Goldenbaum,and Teri Thayer, they are good also.Arlen S wrote chip and die and quilt as desired.
S G Murder of taste,Murder on a stormy night, TT wrote Wild Goose chase. I am looking for some of these. Jo

I have heard of some of these authors but have not read any of there work. I will look for some of these books....you know....we should start a book swap.....
It would be like a long-distance library or book club!!

I just got Winding Ways from the library but haven't started it...I'm trying to finish another book first and there's not much time for reading!

A side comment...did anyone see the movie 'P.S...I Love You' AND read the book? I know better but I really wanted to see the scenes of Ireland in the movie. I understand they need to change things to make a movie work but I'm estimating that only about 10% of the book was in the movie. Oh well.

I have not read or even seen PS I love you....I want to. Usually, book is better.

Here's one I read a few years ago before I became a quilter, and just this week remembered that it had a quilting theme: THE ART OF MENDING by Elizabeth Berg.

The narrator of the tale is a quilt artist, making commissioned quilts. The story is about her reconnection to her estranged sister when she learns that her sister isn't crazy, but recovering from child abuse, that she (the protagonist) was completely unaware of in their shared childhood.

At one point in the story, the sister tells the narrator that her (the narrator's) life isn't so great, that what she believes is art is really just taking whole cloth and cutting it into tiny broken bits and simply mending them together and that her whole life has been about mending things she doesn't understand.

Something to read and think about over and over as I work on my art of quilting, or is it mending? We're all trying to mend something in our lives all the time, or is it just me?

Willow

Willow,
Nice comments on what sounds like a good story. I think I would like to read that book.

Thanks for suggesting it.

Jessica

Thanks for the heads up on the web site stop your killin me, I love to read when I'm not quilting.
Diana

Here's an older book with a quilt and an interesting quilt quote: THE HANGMAN'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER by Sharon McCrumb. I was attracted to read the book because it is set in the mountains of Appalachia. I was hooked from the moment it began: "Nora Bonesteel was the first one to know about the Underhill family. Death was no stranger to Dark Hollow, Tennessee, but Nora Bonesteel was the onlyone who could see it coming."

The quote about quilting is really funny and only a tiny sidenote to the story, maybe an illustration to the culture or a reference to the place superstition has in our lives, Nora says: "I put the last stitch in a Lone Star quilt and doomed myself to spinsterhood."

Sharon McCrumb did an excellent job of weaving the mountain culture into the very essence of this story, this story could only happen here. This book should be a murder mystery, but instead it is a story of breavement and how people cope with loss. Every character in the story is well developed, I feel like these are people I could meet at church, that I've known all my life, I know them so well.

The quilting: Nora does alot of handwork, knitting, sewing, quilting. Her "sight" is a presence in her life that forces her to make things other than what she expects. Her friend, Laura, is expecting and asks Nora to knit something for her baby. Nora's reply is "I'll make something for the child you'll have in April." Laura doesn't have a baby in April, instead she is unexpectedly fostering a three-year old and the sweater Nora gives her in December fits the toddler perfectly. Nora's gifts cause her to make a quilt that is a landscape scene with a cemetery on it, little coffins marking new graves, this is foretelling a murder in the neighborhood.

This isn't a story about quilting, it's about survival, physical and emotional.

I'm not sure I've conveyed to you how much I liked this book and hope you will too. Best wishes, Willow

Willow,
I will be putting that book on my list. It sounds intriguing. I really do enjoy reading different authors. Each one has a different style and take on things.

Jessica

Willow,
I was looking up the authors that you suggested. Sharyn Mccrumb wrote the book Song Catcher. That was made into a movie. I hadn't realized that it was a book first....I saw the movie and loved it...
Now I will read the book and will certainly read more of her writings...I like the things she writes about.

Jessica