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    The Master Quilter
    The Master Quilter
    The Master Quilter
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Master Quilter

    Written by Jennifer Chiaverini

    Narrated by Christina Moore

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The Elm Creek Quilters are as surprised as anyone when their beloved matriarch, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, marries her sweetheart, Andrew, at a festive holiday gathering at her ancestral home on Christmas Eve. Eager to celebrate the union, her friends decide to create a beautiful wedding quilt to warm the newlyweds' home and hearts. A secret with such good intentions, they reason, couldn't possibly do anyone harm. But although the quilting retreat established at Elm Creek Manor is a place where quilters share their creativity, their challenges, and their dreams, somehow in their haste to find a way to honor the wisdom, skill, and devotion of their favorite master quilter, they forget that sometimes secrets drive friends apart instead of drawing them closer. As financial troubles, relationship struggles, and unexpected opportunities beyond Elm Creek Quilt Camp test the bonds of friendship, the quilters must find a way to stitch together more than Sylvia's Bridal Sampler to make a happy ending.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateAug 3, 2012
    ISBN9781470324209
    The Master Quilter
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    Jennifer Chiaverini

    Jennifer Chiaverini is the New York Times bestselling author of thirty-five novels, including critically acclaimed historical fiction and the beloved Elm Creek Quilts series. She, her husband, and their two sons call Madison, Wisconsin, home.

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    • 4/5
      Interesting book. I've liked some of the others a bit better, but it was a different way of writing (each chapter was the same thing but from a different characters perspective). Although each character brought their own things to what happened, I felt like I was reading the same thing over and over, because, well, I was!
    • 4/5
      After two books focussing almost exclusively on Sylvia, this book turns back to the other Elm Creek Quilts members, with a chapter dedicated to individual members. Covering roughly the same period of time, we get to see how the start of the new season affects each person. Sylvia and Andrew are now married, but without a wedding quilt, so the group band together to make one for them in secret.Bonny, whose husband almost had an affair 5 years previously, finds out that her marriage - and the quilt shop - is coming to an end. Mary Beth, the "arch nemesis" president of the Waterford Quilting Guild - and Diane's next door neighbour has some shocking home truths to learn about her children and the Guild.Summer moves in with her boyfriend, and confronts the fact that she is stagnating in Waterford, in no small part because her mother has manipulated her to remain.All members of the group end up making life changing decisions, which will have an effect not only on themselves but on the wider groupIt's good to see the author changes her writing style enough to keep things interesting for the reader and moving along. It will be good to see new characters come in (and possibly some of the other characters leave or fade into the background).
    • 4/5
      Another wonderful installment in the Elm Creek series. I'm just not sure I liked the way it was layed out. First we find out what happens over the period of a couple of weeks. Then we switch to another character & find out what happened to her. Then another & then another. On one hand it was kind of cool because you don't get the whole story at once but on the other it was a tad annoying because you're just reading a lot of the same thing over & over.
    • 3/5
      The Elm Creek Quilt series has been one of my favorite series up until this installment. In this particular novel, the same story is repeated through the eyes of each quilter with only the knowledge that each quilter has. It's an oft-used literary technique, but in this case, it just didn't work. The quilters are trying to surprise Sylvia with a wedding quilt. Most of the quilters are grappling with personal issues. Bonnie is having marital issues and business issues. Summer is having boyfriend troubles. Another is facing employment decisions. Some are having problems with teenage children. If this were the first installment that I had picked up in the series, I would probably have abandoned it and not tried another installment. One doesn't get the warm happy feeling that the earlier novels resonate. There's a slight glimpse of it in the final chapter, but most would never make it that far, nor is it sufficient to depict the true atmosphere of Elm Creek Manor. I'll try the next one and pray that the charm of life near Waterford returns.
    • 3/5
      This entry in the Elm Creek Quilts series finds the quilters soliciting quilt blocks from quilt campers to make a surprise bridal quilt for newlywed Sylvia. Personal problems arise for each of the Elm Creek staff members, distracting them from their project and, even worse, from the business/hobby that drew them together in the first place.The first 3/4 of the book tells the story of the same weeks from the perspective of each one of the Elm Creek quilters. Each chapter contributes new elements to the story, but not without a lot of repetition. Although the secrets and misunderstandings among the quilters were resolved by the end of the book, each woman experienced conflict with family members, co-workers, or significant others that were left unresolved. The book has an unfinished feel to it. It's the weakest book I've read in this series. Regular series readers shouldn't skip it, though, because it tells about changes in the lives of some of the quilters that will affect subsequent books in the series.
    • 4/5
      This story got VERY tedious as the listener has to repeat the story line several times to hear the perspective of each character. I was ready for it to be through way before it was complete.
    • 5/5
      A wonderful story showing how our past and present come together to make us the person we are.