Quilt, Read, Eat, Sleep.... What Else Is There? discussion

I'm embarassed as to how easy it was to check the box that allows everyone to add books. That box had now been checked! Hooray!

So, add, subtract and conquor. It would be nice if we tell everyone what we've added so we can know about new additions.

Yay!! Kathryn I'd be happy if that was the most embarrassing thing I've done, lol Thanks!

You and me both, Cathy! LOL!

Is there any particular storyline that you use to choose your bookshelf books? Do they all have quilting/crafting/cooking style story lines?

Some of the series don't necessarily all have a quilting theme. I'm not sure if the group wants to add non-quilting themed books or not. Great question, maybe we need to do a poll!

I'd like to see it remain quilt-related. What do others think?

Quilt related is fine with me.

when I find a quilt related book that I like, I look for their other books. I tend to be happy with those also.
I would use the info, but if the majority don't want it posted here, I'm ok with that, I will continue to look them up.

I'm of the same opinion about books in a series. I like to read the complete series, whether they're quilt related or not.
There are two websites I use, as well as each author's own (if they have one).

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/
http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/ This one is only for mystery series.

I would be interested in reading any excellent book quilt related or other. I would really appreciate everyone recommending some of the best books they have ever read.

We've been reading the series by Marie Bostwick called Cobble Court. It's on our bookshelf. The first in the series is called A Single Thread. We've as a group read the first two and I was thinking maybe for September we should read the 3rd book in the series. Some already have, but I think that's okay.

Any of the Jennifer Chiaverini Elm Creek books are also very good. The first in that series is The Quilter's Apprentice.

I always love a great book I can sink my teeth into...

If I had to pick the favorite fiction I've ever read, it would be difficult, It's usually within the last 5 books I've read. Generally what ever is freshest in my mind.
But getting around that, I kinda think Dune and The Stand would be high up in the all time favs.

The Stand would be really high on my list too.

The Stand is high on my list as well.
I really enjoyed the book The Help. I saw the movie this weekend and it was great too. I'm reading Moon Spinners now, the third in a series - The Seaside Knitters Mysteries. I don't knit but the same theme runs through for knitters as quilters - people coming together, sharing.

Thanks to all for their reading suggestions. Keep 'em coming!

Just added Falling to Pieces: A Quilt Shop Murder to the bookshelf. It's a nice story of how quilting brings people together. There's a little mystery and romance thrown in too.

Thank you Susan for adding a book. We kind of need to wake this group up a bit!!

I read most anything except creepy stuff but have not read any fiction with a quilting theme. Might have to pick up one and see what I think. Suggestions anyone?

I enjoyed Falling to Pieces as well. I'm reading Material Witness now, the third book in the series of The Shipshewana Amish Mysteries.

I frequent an Amish market in Annapolis and always admire the quilts that they have for sale - beautiful work.

I've mentioned this in the past, but I know there are many newer members now.
Some years ago I found this webpage
http://infohost.nmt.edu/~breynold/qui...
and I vowed to read every book on it. Some I was never able to find. But this updated list has so many more books that what it had when I first found it.
When I type 'quilt fiction' into my local library's webpage search function there are many more than what's on this list. So much new quilt fiction coming out, I doubt I'll ever read them all.
Books of all genres and subjects. Romance, historical, mysteries, and just plain fiction. There are authors that write series with the same characters in each book and there are books by authors with no relationship to the other books they've written.
I've also found if I found I liked a writer's quilt fiction, I'll also enjoy non-quilty books they've written.

There are also books not on this list, because they aren't truly fiction. One in particular I'll suggest is "No Time on My Hands" http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75... Grace's family moved to a Nebraska homestead early in her life. As the 2nd oldest child in a family that was primarily girls, many outdoor and traditionally boy's chores fell on her. One of them was to take the cows to pasture and watch over them all day. She had plenty of time for day dreaming and wished that one day she would marry a cowboy, she wished that one day she could look down at the top of a cloud and that one day she would be admired as the maker of beautiful quilts. To her surprise these 3 things came true during her lifetime. She lived a long life and with her help, her daughter wrote this book.
She was featured an issue of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine.
Frankly, nonfiction can really bore me, but I was always calculating how much time I could spare to read this book, I really enjoyed it.

Just added four more to the list. Stitches in Time by Barbara Michaels, the first two in Elizabeth Craig's Southern Quilting mysteries, and a great book of essays on quilting that is really funny.

Would it be OK to add my own book to the list? A Patchwork of Poison - it's had some lovely reviews on Amazon and on our Goodreads UK kindle forum.

Karen I just added your book to my Amazon wish list, so I'll get it next time I make an order, Thanks for telling us about it.

Karen, sounds like a wonderful book!! Just added it to my wish lists too!!

Thank you very much, Cathy and Craftnut. Very kind of you. (hope you enjoy it if you get to read it!)

I WILL get to read it, the question is only "when"!

... I daren't even count my TBR pile! And I've just ordered a couple more patchwork books