Elm Creek Quilts Novel Series

Elm Creek Quilts Novel Series
By: Jennifer Chiaverini

1. The Quilter's Apprentice
2. Round Robin
3. Cross-Country Quilter's
4. The Runaway Quilt
5. The Quilter's Legacy
6.The Master Quilter
7.The Sugar Camp Quilt
8. The Christmas Quilt
9. Circle of Quilters
10. Quilter's Homecoming
11. New Year's Quilt
12. Winding Ways

The Runaway Quilt

The Runaway Quilt
by: Jennifer Chiaverini
An Elm Creek Quilts Novel, book four

You know I love themed series in my books, and I love to quilt, so this was a natural series for me to pick up. The series is by Jennifer Chiaverini and is centered around quiliting, along with life.

This book starts when Sylvia decides to look for the "proof" that her Aunt Lucindia always said was in the attic that the family was a station on the Underground Railround in the Civil War. Upon looking in the attic, Sylvia finds the trunk Aunt Lucindia told her was there, but the proof is not what she expected. In the trunk are three quilts and a journal.

Sylvia's quest to find this information was prompted by meeting a lady at a Quilt Conference who had a family quilt with a picture of Elm Creek stiched into the quilt, but she was from the south, and her family owned slaves, and Sylvia was sure her family helped slaves, so how could they be related or the picture the same place? These questions take Sylvia on a journey to find out about her history.

Along the way, Sylvia finds that all was not as it seemes, and that sometime people are not as noble and fearless ad we thought they were and sometimes the facts of history get confused in the retelling, but the family is still the same family and it doesn't change who people are of the fact that we love them.

This story is told almost as two seperate stories, you have what is going on with Sylvia in the present, which is effected by what she reads in the journal, and the journal is written as if the story if unfold before our eyes. It was amazing to read this story of what might or might not have happend in the Civil War regarding the Underground Railroad, and even in the bad parts, it was still a story worth telling.

Jennifer is am amazing storyteller, and in this book she told two stories that intertwined with each other and brought the reader to the present day, with a better understanding of the past and a hope for the future.
If you like quiliting, or just the rich history of quilts in America, this is a great read. If you are interested in history, and what might have been during the Civiil war, then this is a great read, and if you are just interested in something unquie and enjoyable, then this is a great read. I highly recommned this and the other books in the Elm Creek Series so far.

Brownie Outing

Just Us Girls - Mother/Daughter Brownie Outing
Belmont Girl Scout Camp Preserve
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 9am-noon

CANCELLED

Due to all the recent rains we have been having here, locally, the road out to the Girl Scout Camping Preserve is flooded over, and with the Flood watches still in effect and the flood stages still rising, the Council made the determination to go ahead and cancel the Just Us Girls Outing.
The road into camp is flooded over and, although I have not seen it, I was told that most cars would not be able to cross the water, and with the water still rising, it was just not safe to try.

I am sorry that we are going to have to miss this, but in the efforts to keep everyone safe, this is probably the best course of action.

I will update everyone on the Spring Mill trip as soon as I have some information.

Thanks!!

EBay Offerings

So, EBay is offerring a special price on listing fees for items that are listed at starting prices under $1.00.
So what did I do? Well.....I listed the three most recent books that I read, and reviewed here, for sell.

Mums the Word

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SOLD Undead and Unwed

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SOLD Slay It with Flowers

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So, if you have read the reviews and you are looking to read the book, here is your chance to get it cheap, and in good condition!

Slay It with Flowers

Slay It with Flowers
by: Kate Collins
A Flower Shop Mystery Series, book 2

So I told you about Mum's the Word the first book in the Flower Shop Mystery Series. Well, now the second book in the series, Slay It with Flowers.

Once again, the setting is the ficitional New Chapel, Indiana and this book is set probably a mere weeks after the first book. That alone draws you in, we see all the characters almost exactly as they were when the last book ended, so there is nothing that has gone on while we were gone that changes them in anyway so it is easy to pick up the story in this book and carry on.

Abby has agreeed to do the flowers for her cousin Jillian's upcoming wedding, which we heard about in Mum's the Word, but this is set around the bridesmaids and the groomsmen all being in town about three-four weeks before the wedding for fittings and to get to know each other, like they all don't already know each other already. The bridesmaids are all sorority sisters, except Abby, and they do tend to fit the steorotype, but what can you say, it's a novel. The groomsmen are all fraternity brothers, and the groom and his brother, Abby's ex-fiance, couldn't be more opposite if they tried! I loved it! What great character development!

Of course, we get to see more of what kind of a realtionship Marco and Abby might be developing and also feel out all the other characters. For all everyone says about not wanting Abby to get involved, or stick her nose into another murder investigation, it is the family and friends that end up encouraging her to get involved again this time! I loved reading the way each and everyone looks out for her, but at the same time wants her help for their own reasons, and that makes the story all the more real and human.

You know, I loved this book. It kept me guessing until the end, and I was pleased and surprised with the outcome. I loved the local flavor again of reading a book set in Indiana, and in fact I think the town and the local college, sound very much like the town in northern Indiana that my husband was raised in, so that makes it more enjoyable to read too.

I want to give you information about the book, and would love to encourage you to read it, because I think it was a fun, easy read, but I don't want to give away any of the details of the book. I just think that ruins the book. So I tried to give you enough to get you wanting to read the book, without ruining the whole story.

I hope you enjoy! And if you do read the book, let me know what you thought! Please!!

Undead and Unwed

Undead and Unwed
by: Mary Janice Davidson
Queen Betsy Series, book 1

So, Mary Janice Davidson has a new book series out, called the Queen Betsy series about a newly arisen vampire named Elizabeth Taylor, only don't call her that or Liz, Betsy is fine; and by the way, she's heard all the name jokes she would care to here. Only she isn't your typical vampire, none of the gloom and dome with her, she just wants to know where her shoes are.

When I read this book, I just kept picturing Sarah Jessica Parker from Sex in the City when I read Betsy. That is exactly how I would describe her, she is loyal to her shoes, and you need her on your side, a new pair of Ferragamos or Jimmy Choos and she is there!

It's written in a light-hearted manner and Betsy is more flippant than anything, but I did enjoy the book. Although, I think Sinclair is my favorite person right now, he is so more your typical vampire, dark and handsome, mysterious and yet somehow you just want to know him. I want to know know more about him, his history and everything. I am not quite as interested in Betsy, but she does provide for some good lines and keeps it from being a dark series about vampires.

Great read for a weekend. I read it Saturday while making cookies for Easter, so it is a light, fun, easy read. Enjoy!

Queen Betsy Series

Queen Betsy Series
by: Mary Janice Davidson

1. Undead and Unwed
2. Undead and Unemployed
3. Undead and Unappreciated
4. Undead and Unreturnable
5. Undead and Unpopular
6. Undead and Uneasy
7. Undead and Unworthy

This is a cute little series about vampires, but not the ones that you have read about before, the main charachter is more Sarah Jessica Paker in Sex in the City than Vampire. She may be a vampire, but her loyalty lays in the shoes! Cute read!!