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Title: Round Robin : An Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini ISBN: 0-684-86892-X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (27 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Wonderful story, some lose ends
Comment: Round Robin centers around the Elm Creek Quilters, friends who all live in the same town and who either own or teach at at the Elm Creek Quilt Camp. From the time they gather at Elm Creek Manor to watch a television show featuring their camp, Sylvia, Judy, Sarah, Agnes, Gwen, Summer, and Diane find their lives becoming more complicated. The group makes plans to complete a round robin quilt to present to Sylvia, the founder and Guiding force behind Elm Creek, but each woman is forced to confront the challanges and changes in their own lives. From damaged mother-child relationships, abandonment, dreams lost, angry teenagers, financial difficulties and shifting marital roles these women rely on each other for humor and support. This is wonderful story of the nurturing friendships women fashion throughout their lives. These ties are tested and tugged and strained and still manage to survive and sustain, enriching not only the friends but their families as well. I only wish this was a bit longer and the stories more complete. But this is part of a series and there is sure to be more to come. You don't need to be a quilter to appreciate this warm tale.
Rating: 5
Summary: A beautiful story about friendship
Comment: The small peaceful town of Waterford in Pennsylvania hosts the Elm Creek Quilters, a group of eight women dedicated to passing on their quilting skills to any interested person. The octet runs a quilting camp inside the Elm Creek Manor. The group makes it on national TV, starring in a segment of America's Back Roads.
Two participants, Sarah and Sylvia happen to be two generations apart, but have found a love and support neither one previously knew. Sylvia has known a life of pain and sorrow and desperately wants to spare Sarah from any suffering. She invites Sarah's estrange mother to the manor in hope of reconciling the two estranged family members. Though Sarah fails to open up, the seven other members adopt Carol. Their kindness alienates Sarah until a tragedy makes her realize how fragile and precious a strong relationship is.
The characters of ROUND ROBIN are memorable folks who enrich the story line in many ways. Jennifer Chiaverini has shown in a simple but beautiful plot that people need the support of loved ones to survive a crisis. The tale focuses on the human condition and offers up the hope that, no matter how bleak the situation is; good times are near as long as good friends stand by you. Similar in tone to Jan Karon, this novel is a spiritually uplifting reading experience that serves as the sequel to the wonderful THE QUILTER'S APPRENTICE.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 5
Summary: Loved, loved, loved it!!
Comment: I am so glad that I discovered these wonderful books. The characters are right out of life. I have now read the first two books - after reading the Runaway Quilt -- which I loved. It is interesting to "get to know" all these women in a book about women and a craft that, although I now work full time, I thoroughly enjoy. I have just begun the third book and will eagerly await more.
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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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