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Sarah's Quilt (Sarah Agnes Prine #2)
In These Is My Words, Sarah Agnes Prine told the spellbinding story of an extraordinary pioneer woman and her struggle to make a home in the Arizona Territories. Now, in this mesmerizing sequel, a three-year drought has made Sarah desperate for water. And just when it seems that life couldn't get worse,she learns that her brother and his family are trapped in the Great San...more
Paperback, 402 pages
Published
August 22nd 2006
by St. Martin's Griffin
(first published 2005)
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May 02, 2008
Krystal
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Debra Eckel
This is the sequel to "These Is My Words", which is probably one of my very favorite books of all time. Sarah's Quilt picks up a few years after These Is My Words left off. It's about a summer full of trials and how they are endured and what is learned.
Sarah Agnes Prine Elliot is still living in the Arizona Territory. Her children are grown and she is discovering that she is having a hard time letting them go. There is a drought that's threatening to destroy her ranch. Her brother Harland and hi...more
Sarah Agnes Prine Elliot is still living in the Arizona Territory. Her children are grown and she is discovering that she is having a hard time letting them go. There is a drought that's threatening to destroy her ranch. Her brother Harland and hi...more
A sequel usually doesn't live up to the orginal and this novel only gets 3 stars maybe 3.5. I loved These is my Words but this continuation of Sarah's life was sad, depressing, and I believe, I would have rather ended her story with the first book. Sarah was a strong woman and I did enjoy the characters and how their thoughts and actions color their lives however without more uplifting stories the book didn't hold my interest, compel me to read, want me to experience her life. There are good boo...more
I think this book was well written, but frankly, the story was just SO dang sad, it stressed me out reading it. Everyone says, oh she finds love, so I keep reading and thinking she will have a happy life, then when I'm positive it can't get any more depressing, it totally does! I truly hope one person did not go thru THAT many tragedies in real life. I don't know if I can stand to read the 3rd book in this series, it's too much of a downer - (I did just read the reviews of the 3rd book and every...more
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This is a sequel to These Is My Words, but it is written differently. Instead of several different happenings over a span of several years, this diary covers one very complicated year. All of the events are interrelated and focus on one issue. Although it still has dates on it like a diary, it no longer is written like a diary anymore. However, the events occuring are quite interesting and still grabs you despite the differences.
Life parallel: Sarah's life events pass so quickly during her youth...more
Life parallel: Sarah's life events pass so quickly during her youth...more
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I didn't realize These Is My Words had two sequels until after I finished it. And when I found out, I was bummed. ME, the queen of sequels! I felt that These Is My Words was beautiful and heart-rending and deliciously complete in and of itself. To continue the story would dilute the one already told. So, I promised myself to ignore the sequels so I wouldn't risk ruining the closure I already had. But of course, I couldn't resist, and I'm happy I read on. Turner churns out the adventure and roman...more
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I liked the first book (These Is My Words)better. Too much happened in this book for me to believe all of it could happen to just one person.
Well I'm just plumb tuckered out and fit to be tied after reading this book. Although I did enjoy seeing Sarah move on with her life, I think I would have rather left her memory the way it ended in These is My Words. This book is so far fetched and over the top with trials and heartaches. Made me exhausted reading it. Couldn't relate to it the same as the first book, and it didn't have as many tidbits of wisdom. It was interesting and she pulls you in just the same as the first book. It was good...more
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This book might better have been titled "Sarah's Affliction". I really began to feel overwhelmed by all her hardships and couldn't figure out how she was ever going to come out on top. On top of everything that went wrong, I was still so sad about the loss of Jack in the first book--that was a total blow to me. (Turner did such a good job of making him endearing.) But, I did enjoy reading it and enjoyed Sarah's perspective on things. I will say, the woman sure is a hard worker! Just reading abou...more
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I liked this book slightly less than These Is My Words, but that's still saying a lot. This book takes place in 1906, a few years after These Is My Words ends. Sarah's boys are college students and her daughter is living in town while she lives on her ranch with her father-in-law, Chess.
This book does have a lot of heartbreak as it seems that almost every single one of Sarah's dreams goes up in smoke. She has to rescue her brother's family in San Francisco from the devastating earthquake, deal w...more
This book does have a lot of heartbreak as it seems that almost every single one of Sarah's dreams goes up in smoke. She has to rescue her brother's family in San Francisco from the devastating earthquake, deal w...more
I loved These Is My Words and how it was written. This is very different; instead of being written journal-like and covering many years, this was much more book-like and covered one very dry, stormy, tough, tough year. I realize it is probably called Sarah's Quilt because the picture on the cover is of one of her actual quilts, but it would have been better titled along the lines of Sarah's Tribulation or Sara's Affliction or 1906: Sarah's Struggles. Basically, I am going to have to read These i...more
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I really enjoyed this book. It is a follow-up to These Is My Words. All of the characters in the book are interesting but what draws me in the most is the main character Sarah Prine. She is a tough,hardworking,sharp-as-a-tack, pioneering woman. Another character in the book comments on how Sarah is both strong and a lady. That she is. She has plenty of hardships but she moves through them. We get to see her deal with what life gives her in a very genuine way. She complains and worries but that d...more
Love it. I love this one as much as These is My Words but for different reasons. I like that Turner abandoned her diary approach and stuck with an unvarying 1st person narration, which lent itself well to the story. I still miss Jack, but so does Sarah. I empathized with her and April's mild estrangement and Sarah's difficulty in "cutting the apron strings" with her almost-adult children. I feel "purely tired out" just reading all the work that Sarah does in her day-to-day life and I feel a new...more
This just didn't come close to my expectations after reading "These Is My Words." It took me much longer to get into the story and I thought it was a little far-fetched. It reminded me a little of Forrest Gump because it tried to incorporate so much national history into the life of one person. That's fine and all, but it seemed incongruous with the first book in the series. Nancy Turner used the same journal format with this book, but it felt less true. The entries didn't read like daily entrie...more
What a downer! Just about any and every horrible thing that could happen to this woman did. It was hard to finish, but I just kept telling myself it would get better. It all turned out okay in the last few pages, but not enough to make up for all the depressing things in the first 390. I know it's based on the life of the author's great-grandmother, but it is a fiction. It is almost unbelievable that that many awful things could happen to one person in such a short period of time. I would have e...more
Love, love, loved this book. It is a sequel to "These is My Words" which, by the way, could never be "out done!" That's why I gave Sarah's Quilt 4 stars instead of 5!! I gave myself several months after finishing TisMW before starting this next book in the series...I needed time to "heal!!":) I'm really glad for the time between as it helped to avoid comparisions.
Living in the often times harsh country of Arizona and owning a copy of my GG Grandmother's jounal (written while she, as a pioneer i...more
Living in the often times harsh country of Arizona and owning a copy of my GG Grandmother's jounal (written while she, as a pioneer i...more
When I told my husband I was reading the sequel to "These is My Words", he asked if it was called "This Is More Of My Words". I don't really get the actual title. Very very little of it was about a quilt. Which probably means it's symbolic for something I'm not understanding. I didn't love it, but I enjoyed it. I thought it was weird that Rudolfo was a COMPLETELY different person in this book. It would have made more sense to just introduce a new character for that role rather than have Rudolfo...more
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I kind of had to slog through this one. I might have even given up on it if I hadn't read somewhere that the third book is a lot better.
What was up with all the typos? It's understandable to have one or two minor errors, but were we're enough throughout Sarah's Quilt that it was distracting. The writing wasn't nearly as engaging, and I felt like Sarah's character wasn't true to who she had become in the first book. Plus, some of the most dramatic points in the story weren't adequately explained...more
What was up with all the typos? It's understandable to have one or two minor errors, but were we're enough throughout Sarah's Quilt that it was distracting. The writing wasn't nearly as engaging, and I felt like Sarah's character wasn't true to who she had become in the first book. Plus, some of the most dramatic points in the story weren't adequately explained...more
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I liked this book. If you liked the first one (
These Is My Words
), then you will like this one. Sarah's Quilt is a continuation of the story of Sarah Agnes Prine. It starts a decade or two after the first book ended, so she's a grandmother and her two young boys are men now. The story takes place in less time than a year, but SO MUCH happens. Drought. Theft. Tornado. Poisoned Wells. Fire. Deception. Not all of it happens directly to Sarah, but to her other family and neighbors as well. It is ju...more
I agree with many reviewers here on Goodreads that Sarah's Quilt isn't quite as good as These Is My Words, the first in the series. That said, this is still a spectacularly good book, one I devoured in a mere two days. There are some issues with this novel, most particularly that the diary format doesn't work in this book. The chapters are far too long and detailed to be entries from Sarah's diaries, and I believe Nancy Turner would have been better off writing this in the first person without t...more
The second installment in the story of Sarah Agnes Prine's life. It, again, highlighted just how hard life on the frontier was - heartbreakingly so. Lots of trials and tribulations, sketchy characters, loss of loved ones, and natural disasters. But enough joy, friendship, integrity, family, and redemption to keep it from sinking under the weight of despair. For me, it didn't have quite the impact that These Is My Words had, perhaps simply because it was the sequel. The diary format didn't seem a...more
MAJOR INEXCUSABLE INCONSISTENCIES! When the book doesn’t know how many children the main character had that died, or where they are buried; it destroys the illusion that any of this really happened. It makes you feel like the author doesn’t really care about Sarah.(See pg383 These is my words, then pg 14, 109 and 369 in Sarah’s Quilt) The fact is that when they remind you of the blunder at the beginning middle and end of the book it is very difficult to get past it. Also, there were other proble...more
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Sarah's Quilt is the continuing story of Sarah Prine Eliott and her life, as it continues after the death of her husband and the move back to her ranch. It is a hard time in the history of the Arizona territory, with relief from the Indians comes pressure from the railroad and the ambitions of a greedy neighbor. Sarah and her family continue to struggle on through fire and sword, just as they did in the first book. There is so much going on in this story, it gets overwhelming at times. I miss th...more
If after reading "These is My Words" you thought there wasn't much more that could go wrong in the life of Sarah Agnes Prine, wait until you read this novel. The Indian wars are in the past, but this time man and nature combine to flatten Sarah's dreams of a peaceful life on the ranch. Moreso that the adventures of the west and the efforts of trying to stay out on top of it all, the emotional struggles of just living life are what elevate the novel. Sarah's children are growing up, she must lear...more
What a disappointing sequel! I mean, honestly, how many tragedies, calamities, and traumas can fit in a one year span? The first book covered over 20 years of Sarah's life and didn't contain the troubles this one 12 month period did! And of course there was the poor story arc, which added another dimension of negativity.... Relatives appearing out of the blue? A crazy lunatic obsessed with Sarah out of the blue who gets no explanation? (I was convinced he was the army guy who loved Sarah and ran...more
Today I finished the second book in Nancy E. Turner's trilogy, Sarah's Quilt about the life of Sarah Agnes Prine, mother and pioneer.
Like the first novel, These Is My Words, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and am definitely looking forward to finishing the trilogy with Star Garden next.
My Thoughts:
Like the first novel, this book really did capture what life must have been like for the pioneers that made their way into the territories and carved a life for themselves. This part of Sarah's journey...more
Like the first novel, These Is My Words, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and am definitely looking forward to finishing the trilogy with Star Garden next.
My Thoughts:
Like the first novel, this book really did capture what life must have been like for the pioneers that made their way into the territories and carved a life for themselves. This part of Sarah's journey...more
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“I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It's like coffee. Once it's roasted, it all looks brown. Until you pour hot water on it and see what comes out. Folks get into hot water, you see what comes out.”
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“Living is getting knocked down time and again, then standing up time and again, and once more. It's easy to act honorable when things are coming along and all your pastures are green. Plenty difficult when the ground is dried and burned and people have connived to take even that from you. I'll sell this place, or I'll lose it. I'll go on. People who don't have hard times aren't living.”
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