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The New Year's Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts Series #11) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jennifer Chiaverini
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $33.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 1619908
Format: Large Print
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Thorndike Large Print
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 303
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.7 x 1
ISBN: 0786297204
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780786297207
ASIN: 0786297204
Publication Date: December 5, 2007
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 Not the author's best work August 18, 2008
Having read all of Jennifer Chiaverini's books in this series leading up to "New Year's Quilt," I found this book disappointing - not her best work. I nearly stopped reading 'New Year" because it just didn't hold my interest like the author's previous work. I won't give up on Chiaverini, however.
The New Year's Quilt July 21, 2008
I usualy enjoy reading The Elm Creek Quilts Series but I was terribly disappointed in this book. Having read most of the other books, I found that this book was really a rehashing of the books in the series I had already read. I know that on New Year's Day, people reflect on the past but this was overdone. There was little to move along the story. The New Year's Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts Series #11) Although the book was about Sylvia and Andrew and his family, I much more enjoy the books that focus around the quilt camp.
 Elm Creek Books are Fabulous! March 31, 2008
What can I say..... Read these books, they are for anyone and everyone who loves a great series! The book is great as a stand alone or if you want to start reading the series. Warning, once you do you will be HOOKED! I never thought I would like to read about families in the late 1800's but I love how the author writes, she keeps your attention throughout the book, it is hard to put down and if you do you will be wanting more! The series ranges from the 1800's to the present and is all about quilters and their lives, along the way you may learn a suggestion or two about quilting! It is GREAT!
Jennifer Chiaverini does it again! March 15, 2008
The first Elm Creek Quilts Novel I read I found by mistake. I thought Chiaverini was the name of an author of mysteries who had been recommended to me. I was pleased to discover that all of her books, including her most recent one, The New Year's Quilt, were mysterious, adventurous, historical, creative, and involve quilts.
I have purchased and read all of her novels and also have the two pattern books from Elm Creek Quilts. I am looking forward to her next book.
As a Senior Citizen, (I don't like this term), I enjoyed the theme of the The New Year's Quilt and the importance of generational understanding and acceptance in families. There is also a link between all of the books she has written so you can see continuity and remember others' experiences. If you read this one, you might want to read the others.
 New Year's Quilt March 7, 2008
In Sept of 2007 I discovered the "The Quilter's Apprentice" in a used book store and became quite enchanted with the series and had acquired all the books to date before I read last 4. As a recent retiree I took up the challenge of learning to quilt and found a beginning class and have finished my first quilt for a grand baby. Sometimes I even find myself trapped in the fantasy and wish I could attend a summer class at Elm Creek Manor. Having said all this makes "New Year's Quilt" (and "The Christmas Quilt" for that matter) all the more disappointing for its rehashing of story lines. When other authors use recurring characters from one book to another, they will often refer to something that happened in the past in a passing comment or paragraph, not chapters and chapters from previous books just give the reader one new tidbit of information. When the new information comes at the end of this story, it reads as a summary of ideas not yet fleshed out as if someone had run out of time. Unfortunately the format of these 2 holiday quilt books reminds me of the 15 min daytime soaps my college roommate was addicted to in 60's--7 to 10 minutes of yesterday's episode before the new stuff, then to be repeated again tomorrow. I don't watch much TV so I don't know how many series other than LOST employee this technique of rehashing the previous story lines. As a reader, this kind of format turns off your fans and robs your new ones of the flesh and bones of the new parts. I feel cheated especially since I bought the other books in the series as new books. I have "The Quilter's Homecoming" left to read and hope I won't be disappointed.
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