Quilts and Books

I'm two weeks late with this and almost considered skipping again, but I liked this book so well that I decided to suck it up and finally write my TBR post. The home page of Ainslie Paton's website , has a little box that says "Favourite Tropes - New Takes" and in that box are pictures of a bunch of her books, including this one, Unsuitable . Unsuitable  is a new take on the "busy executive needs a nanny for his kid" trope by making the executive a woman and the nanny a man. I thought this made Unsuitable  a fun choice for "Favorite Trope" month. Here's the blurb: Can they make trailblazing and homemaking fit, or is love just another gender stereotype?  Audrey broke the glass ceiling. Reece swapped a blue collar for a pink collar job.  She’s a single mum by design. He’s a nanny by choice.  She gets passed over for promotion. He struggles to find a job.  She takes a chance on him. He’s worth more than he knows.  There’s an imbalance of ...

For the last two months I've largely been focused on my quiltmaking. I had a couple of quilts I needed to finish for Christmas that I showed off here . I finished two more quilts in January that I'll show off shortly. And I'm busy working on several others. All that sewing hasn't left as much time for reading. I still read a lot, but I see that my recent reading lists (see sidebar) are full of shorter categories and novellas. So, in the interest of catching up, and acknowledging that I can't come up with 10 books that really stood out as above average from December and January, here are five: 5. A Hometown Boy by Janice Kay Johnson. Johnson is no stranger to tough topics, and boy did she tackle one here. In one of those odd--and in this case extremely sad--coincidences, this book about the aftermath of a mass shooting was published within weeks of the Newtown school shooting. David Owen is called back to his small hometown in eastern Washington when he learns t...