{"id":5054,"date":"2010-04-14T07:06:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T14:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=5054"},"modified":"2016-11-08T13:08:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T20:08:30","slug":"book-review-stamped-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/book-review-stamped-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Stamped Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Stamped<\/a> Stamped Out<\/a> by Terri Thayer<\/a><\/p>\n

My rating: 3 of 5 stars<\/a>
\nI have had this book on my shelf for a long time and finally read it. I needed a break from all of the quilting, design and creativity books I have been reading.<\/p>\n

I was really pleased with this book! I don’t know that much about rubber stamping, so I was concerned I wouldn’t get main portions of the book.. I think that Terri Thayer<\/a> did a great job writing about stamping in a way that didn’t talk down to people who weren’t stamping experts. Yes, I still have questions; this isn’t a how to stamping book, after all and I wasn’t bored by stamping detail. I also didn’t finish it thinking that the author was talking down to me.<\/p>\n

I liked the relationship between April and Deana as well. Not perfect, but a committed friendship. I felt that Thayer wrote well about April’s relationships with her parents. I think a lot of times authors make everything ideal. This book was more interesting, because the relationships were more realistic without the ‘gore’ of real life. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I think that Thayer’s hard won writing experience shows as well. She had a few books under her belt by the time she wrote this one and I felt it was a lot clearer. I liked the way it started. It drew the reader in without a crisis. I had enough information about the characters to know what was happening and want to keep reading. Throughout the book I did not feel as confused as I have felt reading other mysteries.<\/p>\n

I don’t have the sequel, but may have to buy it.<\/p>\n

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Stamped Out by Terri Thayer My rating: 3 of 5 stars I have had this book on my shelf for a long time and finally read it. I needed a break from all of the quilting, design and creativity books I have been reading. I was really pleased with this book! I don’t know that … Continue reading “Book Review: Stamped Out”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[390],"tags":[6,326],"class_list":["post-5054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-390","tag-book-review","tag-off-topic-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}