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Title: Round Robin: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini ISBN: 0-452-28227-6 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.96 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful!
Comment: I just recently came across Jennifer Chiaverini and have read her first two books in a week. I liked the first book a lot, but Round Robin absolutely touched me. It is for women, about women - - and I related with the struggles and problems each encounted, but was sustained and uplifted by the friendship and support they gave to each other. I laughed - I cried - - and I found a support group that was incredible. I can hardly wait to read the next book in the series. I'm just grateful that Jennifer Chiaverini is a young woman - - I am looking forward to many more books to come!
Rating: 4
Summary: Life As a Quilt
Comment: It's a metaphor that may be old, may be even trite, but in this simply lovely story, sequel to "The Quilter's Apprentice," it works. In this novel, we meet all our old friends, women of various ages and circumstances, who make up the Elm Creek Quilters, formed at the end of the last book.
As a surprise for matriarch Sylvia, whose mansion now houses a quilt camp for paying guests, her fellow Elm Creek Quilters decide to gift her with a round robin--a quilt of many designs and colors, each design personal to the woman who creates and sews it. As each woman works on her design, we are allowed into her most private life, and we see--instead of the fairly one-dimensional people we met in the last book--gifted, creative people with richly interwoven lives, just like the quilt. We are privy to their secrets, their sorrows and their joys as each of their quilt sections is created to mirror their most personal selves.
In the end, the quilt is a varied collection of interweaving but highly individual sections that--when sewn together--make an exquisite and unbreakable whole. Just like the women themselves and their strong and unbreakable friendship.
Like the creation of a quilt itself (which I have never done, but want to do more than ever, courtesy of this book and its predecessor), the story is told quietly, slowly, and in a methodical rhythm that should be boring--but is decidedly not. If you are looking for a fast-paced, hard-hitting story, this is not your book. But if you like a truly "good" book, in every sense of the word, with good old-fashioned values set in a 21st-century world, this is a treasure.
I am so glad to have discovered Jennifer Chiaverini and her joy of quilting, and I am so glad to be given the chance to share it with her, even though my quilting talents are nil. A beautiful, highly recommended book for young and old alike. Give it a try!
Rating: 4
Summary: A very touching story
Comment: This story is all about conflict, resolution, and moving beyond the hurt. The Elm Creek Quilters are making a surprise quilt for Sylvia, while their own lives are in turmoil. As each quilter is given the round robin quilt to add to, some momentous event happens in her personal life that directly affects how her part of the quilt appears. I think that it is a good lesson on how art imitates life.
It is all brought to a head at the end when Sylvia suffers a stroke. The following pages show how each quilter adapt to their own situation and face the changes that must occur in their own lives.
A wonderful story and I can't wait to read the 3rd one.
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Title: The Quilter's Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini ISBN: 0452281725 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 03 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Quilter's Legacy : An Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini ISBN: 0743236130 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Elm Creek Quilts : Quilt Projects Inspired by the Elm Creek Quilts Novels by Jennifer Chiaverini, Nancy Odom ISBN: 1571201777 Publisher: C & T Pub Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Steps to the Altar (Benni Harper Mystery) by Earlene Fowler ISBN: 0425189449 Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Sunshine and Shadow (Benni Harper Mystery) by Earlene Fowler ISBN: 0425188558 Publisher: Prime Crime Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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