Einundvierzig
Book Title: "How to Make an American Quilt"
Author: Whitney Otto
Page Count: 254
First Published: 1991
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood
I bought this on the flea market because I vaguely remembered reading it a long time ago and wanted to know if I remembered the right book. I kind of did, only I didn't remember how awfully boring and pretentious it was. See, it's about quilts and quilting. So not only is the whole thing a long, long, long metaphor for how relationships are just like quilts, it's also made up of different patches and basically a quilt in book form. Only it has about six patches. I think this idea would have worked a lot better on a much larger book spanning, I don't know, the history of a small town from the pioneer days until the present. And interspersed with the few chapters about relationships are instructions on quilt making in that most annoying of adresses, second person. "You read this review and think, she must not have liked that book much. You wonder if you should read it anyway. You decide you might, one day, if you come across it." You know.
Author: Whitney Otto
Page Count: 254
First Published: 1991
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood
I bought this on the flea market because I vaguely remembered reading it a long time ago and wanted to know if I remembered the right book. I kind of did, only I didn't remember how awfully boring and pretentious it was. See, it's about quilts and quilting. So not only is the whole thing a long, long, long metaphor for how relationships are just like quilts, it's also made up of different patches and basically a quilt in book form. Only it has about six patches. I think this idea would have worked a lot better on a much larger book spanning, I don't know, the history of a small town from the pioneer days until the present. And interspersed with the few chapters about relationships are instructions on quilt making in that most annoying of adresses, second person. "You read this review and think, she must not have liked that book much. You wonder if you should read it anyway. You decide you might, one day, if you come across it." You know.