Hooked, Sutton Foster
Hooked, Sutton Foster
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Hooked
How Crafting Saved My Life

Author: Sutton Foster

Narrator: Sutton Foster

Unabridged: 7 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/12/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

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.

About Sutton Foster

Sutton Foster is much-loved by Broadway audiences, having starred in The Drowsy Chaperone, Little Women, (both performances Tony® nominated), and Thoroughly Modern Millie, for which she was awarded the Tony®. She has appeared on HBO's Flight of the Conchords, and Disney Channel's Johnny and the Sprites as Tina.


Reviews

Goodreads review by La Crosse County Library on March 28, 2022

This book is not as much about crafting as the title would lead you to believe. Foster describes the book as “a book about crafting that really tells the story of my agoraphobic mother” and that is more accurate. If you’re not familiar with Sutton Foster, she is a Tony-Award-winning Broadway actress......more

Goodreads review by Sabi on August 21, 2022

This was nice. Liked her writing and honesty about her life.The audiobook is narrated by the author and it's done well.......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on October 27, 2021

This was, for me, an unexpectedly moving story. I remember seeing Sutton Foster as Millie on the Tony Award broadcast and being blown away, and I’ve loved her ever since. Listening to her story made me want to dig through my old playbills to see if she was the woman I saw belt out NYC in Annie, thou......more

Goodreads review by Scratch on January 31, 2022

What sucks is that the primary conceit of this memoir is my least favorite thing about it. Sutton Foster really wanted to talk about how she is a "maker" (same terminology used on Amy Poehler's show "Make It," so I assume that's an official term). She even described the writing process and how she d......more

Goodreads review by Aimee on October 25, 2021

I love Sutton Foster and this was everything I wanted in a memoir. It was just so heartbreaking, but at the same time we witnessed her sunny disposition and determination throughout it all. I loved how brutally honest she was and also that the stories were woven around how these events in her life i......more


Quotes

“While filming the last season of Younger, I had the honor of witnessing Sutton’s writing process and watching her crack herself open to share the monumental moments in her life. She is talented beyond belief, a comfy home cook, a wonderful friend, and now a crafting and crochet teacher to all. Just like the rest of us, Sutton’s journey is beautiful and complicated, an intricate pattern woven one thread at a time. Be prepared to get hooked.”—Hilary Duff

"I have been a superfan of Sutton Foster ever since I watched her demolish the stage as the "Star to Be" in Annie but, after reading Hooked I feel like I finally met her. I will watch all of her future roles through a different lens because with this book she filled in the blanks and left this adoring audience member fully satisfied.  I had no idea Sutton's beauty was informed by such early heartbreak and I am grateful to have her example of resilience as a guiding light. And, shoot, it looks like I have to bust out the yarn after all."—Jennifer Garner

Hooked is an inspiring memoir about overcoming fear, finding true love, and the healing power of art.”—Lauren Graham

"When I first worked with Sutton Foster on my show Bunheads she just seemed too good to be true. Brilliant, funny, professional and just wonderful on all fronts. I was immediately suspicious. How is this possible? Humanity doesn’t produce perfect people like this. There must be something very wrong. And then I spotted it. A bag of yarn and some knitting needles. She was a crafter! I knew it! I should’ve guessed that anyone that seemingly perfect had a hot glue gun stashed somewhere. Now as someone who truly has no talents to do anything crafty, I am deeply suspicious of those who bedazzle things and hand you handmade scarves at Christmas. Have these people never heard of Bloomingdales? But in all honesty, they were pretty great scarves. And then came the art shows. And I have to say – they were pretty great art shows. And then Sutton said she was going to write a book. A book about her crafting and how it helped her navigate her life. And I said sure. In all your spare time why not add a book to the mix. And then I read it. This book is much like Sutton herself. Warm, honest, funny, probably very helpful to those that actually wish to pick up the glue-gun, basically its own unique thing. So as someone who has gone from fan to friend to semi-stalker I highly recommend you find a great chair and spend some time in Sutton Foster’s weird, wonderful world. You’ll certainly love her stories. You might even cry a little. Or at the very least maybe you’ll come out of it with a great scarf. Merry Christmas."—Amy Sherman-Palladino