Hooked
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4.6 • 33 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
From the 2-time Tony Award-winner and the star of TV’s Younger, funny and intimate stories and reflections about how crafting has kept her sane while navigating the highs and lows of family, love, and show business (and how it can help you, too).
Whether she’s playing an “age-defying” book editor on television or dazzling audiences on the Broadway stage, Sutton Foster manages to make it all look easy. How? Crafting. From the moment she picked up a cross stitch needle to escape the bullying chorus girls in her early performing days, she was hooked. Cross stitching led to crocheting, crocheting led to collages, which led to drawing, and so much more. Channeling her emotions into her creations centered Sutton as she navigated the significant moments in her life and gave her tangible reminders of her experiences. Now, in this charming and poignant collection, Sutton shares those moments, including her fraught relationship with her agoraphobic mother; a painful divorce splashed on the pages of the tabloids; her struggles with fertility; the thrills she found on the stage during hit plays like Thoroughly Modern Millie, Anything Goes, and Violet; her breakout TV role in Younger; and the joy of adopting her daughter, Emily. Accompanying the stories, Sutton has included crochet patterns, recipes, and so much more!
Witty and poignant, Hooked will leave readers entertained as well as inspire them to pick up their own cross stitch needles and paintbrushes.
Customer Reviews
Great book
Awesome book.
Sadly no pdf’s with recipes & pictures.
A moving, illuminating masterpiece
As a long time “die-hard” fan of Sutton Foster (let’s just say she is my Patti Lupone), I knew I would love this book regardless of its literary value. I was not surprised at all, however, to find that this book, just like every other craft Foster has ever devoted her time to, was an incredibly thoughtful, well-articulated, creative piece of art. The connections she drew between the crafts and artwork she made to her life journey was illuminating and insightful in a nuanced yet beautifully surprising way. As a lover of the “yarn arts” of knitting and crochet myself, her story lent me insight into my own life journey, and I could resonate with how the blankets, hats, socks, and sweaters I had knit were an artistically visible string that connected all my most painful, happy, heartsick, and glorious life moments. Even if you can’t personally resonate with Foster’s love of arts and crafts, you will find solace in her acknowledgment that life is made up of the unexpected, tangible, and heartfelt moments that can be found in the pride of making something as simple as a rather unassuming plate of Mama Helen’s beef stroganoff (recipe included!). I wholeheartedly recommend this audiobook, narrated beautifully by the one and only Sutton Foster.