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I’ve been peripherally aware of Sutton Foster but not a fan (having never seen any of her musicals or shows), but after reading The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater by Alanna Okun earlier this year, I crowdsourced more crafting memoirs and Foster’s Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life came up again and again. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ While I didn’t find Hooked to be as transformative for me as Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater (largely owing to the fact that I align more closely with Okun in terms of age and lived experience), I did enjoy this glimpse into the ways in which particular crafts intersected with significant moments of her life. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’ve always found crafting to be a grounding experience and the same can be said for Foster, who experiments throughout her life with various types of making (though she returns often, as the title would suggest, to crochet). I appreciated the way in which she spoke about becoming an artist (outside of the ways in which she is an Artist) and enjoyed scrolling through Foster’s Instagram page, where you can see images of the various projects mentioned throughout. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you are a fan of Foster, or musical theatre, or crafting, or I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy, I think you may find something to enjoy in this memoir, which I picked up just in time for #NonfictionNovember! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ CW: agoraphobia, cancer, death of a parent, infertility ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ID: A kindle displaying the ebook cover of Hooked lays on top of a charcoal gray kindle cover that I, appropriately, crocheted myself. via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CklRNZQrCfB/