WIP and TBR

Spring has come to Michigan! We have nesting birds in the yard, wildflowers have sprouted up, and the herb garden is green and flourishing.

Wild Violets

It has been a busy spring. After my two cataract surgeries, my husband underwent his second knee replacement surgery! I am super busy handling his chores along with my own.

But I am still keeping up with my quilt projects and reading!

I am hand quilting the Little Red Ridinghood quilt.

I am deciding on the borders on the Winter Houses quilt.

And I played making a quilt with some wool birds from the quilter's group free table and am nearly done with the applique. I will do more embellishment after they are sewn down.

I am now reading:

• LibraryThing win ARC  Make Me A City by Jonathan Carr about the history of Chicago.
• The Ministry of Truth by Dorian Lynskey about George Orwell and the writing of 1984.
• Why We Quilt by Thomas Knauer shares snippets on the quilting life.
• Jared Diamond's Upheaval. I have read about Finland, Japan, and Chile so far. What is so cool is that when I was a senior in high school my family hosted an exchange student from Finland. I became close to the exchange students from Japan, Chile, and Germany during that year. 
• Cesare by Jerome Charyn a love story and thriller set during WWII

On my TBR galley shelves:

• The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar
• Women from the Copper Country by  Mary Doria Russell
• We Are All Good People by Susan Rebecca White
• Out of Darkness Shining Light by Petina Gappah
• This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
• The Book of Science and Antiquities by Thomas Kenalley
• The Vexations by Caitlin Horrocks

On Kindle:

After reading her new book Gold Digger I purchased Rebecca Rosenberg's novel Mrs. Jack London. My review on Gold Digger will appear on my blog soon.

I have Amy Stewart's Miss Kopps Midnight Confessions and Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit on my Kindle which I hope to read soon as the next volume Miss Kopp on the March is being mailed to me via the Kopp Sister's Literary Society.

Another book to come is Archaeology from Space by Sarah Parcak which I won on LibraryThing this month.

Upcoming Book Clubs:
Next month the library book club is reading Wiley Cash's novel The Last Ballad, which I read as an ARC. Wiley will be Skyping with our club!

The Barnes and Nobel book club is reading The Guest Book, which I also read as an ARC.