Reading this afternoon. Boys at football, hubby coaching, dog asleep on my lap. Dinner ready, wine poured, Antiques Roadshow on the telly..... "sigh"..... all good. What to read?
Novel of choice at the moment is this, which you can get here.
I am LOVING this book. Love, love love. If you are a fan of books such as The Cider House Rules (good John Irving is a heavenly reading experience) , The Pillars of the Earth (top ten "losing youself in another era" novel) or The Grapes of Wrath (OK, this is a huge comparison, but Edgar is a great story), run out and get this now. Oprah likes it, it must be good right? I can't put this down, perhaps that's where I'm headed....
I might need a quilting fix though, and I have some new books. A lighter read would be this little number, Hawaiian Quilt Masterpieces, which is eye candy at the extreme.
I bought this at Craft Fest a few weekends ago. Lots of pretty, pretty piccies of really yummy quilts. Makes me want to pull out meterage and get stitchin'. Also luring me though, waiting for a nice chunk of free time, is The Fabric of Society by quilt historian Annette Gero, which I have lusted after for AGES and only just given in to. Its HUGE and heavy and full of the most beautiful quilts, interesting text about Australian quilting history and patterns for some of the quilts by none other than Kim Mclean if you please!
Kim unfortunately doesn't have a website, but you can read an interview with her here and buy some of her patterns here. I also suspect but don't know for sure, that the quilt on the front of this piece of deliciousness coming asap to my bookshelf (thank you Mrs Schmenkman for that heads up!!) is by Kim as well.She is a marvel, if you don't know about her quilts go and look now! NOW!
Hmmm. So many decisions, but I have to get going now and decide, or they'll be back and I will have spent all my heavenly free reading time talking to you lot! Go on, off you go!
Sarah x
