Episode 99 In Which We Talk Books Aug 20 2012

The real episode 99! I'm back from vacation and have some quilty updates, life updates, and a whole lotta talk about books.

In this episode:

Colleen Morris-Wilson, fabric artist, quilt show at the Art Scene in Atrium Gallery, City of Ottawa, Canada, October 27-November 26, 2012. Ben Franklin Place, 101 Centrepointe Dr. http://ottawa.ca/en/rec_culture/arts/gallery_exhibit/atrium/index.html

Craftsy classes at www.craftsy.com.

Books I've been reading:

The Help (Kathryn Stockett)

A Trick of the Light (Louise Penny)

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Jamie Ford)

Death on Beacon Hill, Nell Sweeny series (P.B. Ryan)

The Cat, The Quilt, and The Corpse; a "Cats in Trouble" series (Leann Sweeney)

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie; Flavia DeLuce series (Alan Bradley)

Chicken Boy (Frances Dowell)

Ties that Bind (Marie Bostwick)

Falling to Pieces: A Quilt Shop Murder; Shipshewana Amish Mystery #1 (Vannetta Chapman)

Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)

Book Reviews

The Black Family Dinner Quilt Cookbook: Health Conscious Recipes and Food Memories, with Dorothy Height & The National Council of Negro Women, Inc., 1993) The Quilter's Hall of Fame: 42 Masters Who Have Shaped Our Art, edited by Merikay Waldvogel, Rosalind Webster Perry, and Marian Ann J. Montgomery, PhD (Voyageur Press, 2011) (Quilter's Hall of Fame website: http://www.quiltershalloffame.net)

Quilt National 2011: The Best of Contemporary Quilts (Lark Crafts, 2011)

Listener Rose's recommended link to Elaine Lipson's 2008 article on the Slow Cloth Manifesto: http://handeyemagazine.com/content/slow-cloth