I got my Vermont Quilt Documentation book today—thanks, Margaret, again for telling me about these! I can’t wait to read it and look at all the quilts. So glad I finished the book for my book discussion group tomorrow night! Nothing will stop me from reading this now.
I’ve been reading (actually listening to the audiobook) Room by Emma Donoghue for a book discussion group that meets tomorrow night. Find it here: http://www.amazon.com/Room-Novel-Emma-Donoghue
This book is written from the point of view of Jack, a five year old boy who has lived with his mother in one room, locked in, for his entire life. Jack was born in the room and stays in the room for much of the book. The sudden expanding of his world finishes the final part of the book. This story is disturbing as you know while reading it that such things can and do happen in our world, a world full of many good people and also some who are filled with evil in their hearts.
Jack is a lively young boy who creeps into your heart while you learn about his life through his conversations with Ma, the only other person he has ever known. Ma is a loving mother trying her best to give her child everything she can in her very limited universe. I don’t want to tell you too much about it but I do encourage you to read this book.
The other thing I was doing over the weekend is making up some 10.5″ square blocks for a cause I read about on Pat Sloan’s blog. Check out http://www.bluenickelstudios.com for information about how you can help. As anyone who knows me knows, my DH and I have spend a lot of our adult years volunteering in one way or another. Ronald McDonald House of Portland, Maine, Wayside Soup Kitchen of Portland, Maine, Habitat for Humanity, RV Care-a-Vanners, and now our volunteering with Vermont State Parks. I also donate quilts to charities like Citizen S.A.M. Now Iam busy using up a lot of scraps to make blocks for Blue Nickel Studios project to help warm the homeless in New York City. I’d like to make quilts to donate to those in Vermont who lost everything in Hurricane Irene but my finances don’t allow me that luxury currently. Cotton batting is getting exorbitant! Anyway, what I’m getting at is that you should visit Blue Nickel Studio’s blog to see what you can do for their current cause or Citizen S.A.M. to see if you can help them out. If you have your own cause that you are currently helping, more power to you. Congratulations on helping your fellow man. Keep it up. The world can be a better place if we just help our fellow man in any way we can.
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