Quilters' Book Club Selection for October and Winners!

Do you love to quilt AND love to read?  I invite you to join the free, online Quilters' Book Club.  Each month, we read a book, discuss it through comments on my blog posts, and then make a quilt block to represent that book.  I research several potential blocks to go with the book's themes, setting, main characters, and events.  And I find the patterns free on the internet, making it easy for everyone to access.  Each member can choose the block or blocks they'd like to make.

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Our book to read and discuss during October 2013 is State Fair: a Benni Harper Mystery by Earlene Fowler.  Get the book from your local library or bookstore and join us!       

"Folk art museum curator, rancher, and sometime sleuth Benni Harper returns with a long-awaited new mystery that has her attending the San Celina Mid-State Fair-a place for caramel apples and 4-H calves, colorful quilts and homemade jams, and maybe just a little murder..."  from Good Reads

 

"For Benni, the annual San Celina Mid-State Fair is a much anticipated break in her normal routine of overseeing museum exhibits, temperamental artists and stubborn cattle. This year there is a special showing of traditional African American quilts. When the exhibit's main attraction--a replica of a story quilt made by historical quilting icon Harriet Powers--is stolen, Benni suspects it is more than mere thievery.

"Benni soon learns that underneath the fun, the fair has become a focal point for certain people who are angry at his year's choice for fair manager, Levi Clark. And when the theft leads to a cold-blooded murder, Benni will have to search through a crazy quilt of of clues to discover who in San Celina's seemingly idyllic society is really a wolf in sheep's clothing..." from the author's website

 

*****And we have our winners for September!***** 

Congratulations to Mary Ann and Karen 

 

Mary Ann and Karen, please email me at starwoodquilter@gmail.com with your mailing address, so you can receive your free copy of The Double Wedding Ring by Clare O'Donohue - courtesy of Plume Books.    

Is this the first Benni Harper Mystery by Earlene Fowler that you've read or have you read one before?  Inquiring minds want to know!  Answer in the comment section below.  If you are reading via email, you must first click on the blog title to be able to comment and read the comments of others.  By commenting, you are entering your name in a giveaway for a $20 gift certificate to Fat Quarter Shop.! The more times you comment throughout the month, the greater your chances are of winning!

You might also enjoy reading my previous blog post here.