Lovely read
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book: The Friday Night Knitting Club. Jacobs turned out to be a great writer, and I will definitely be looking out for her work. Here is the synopsis:
Casting on! It starts almost by accident: the women who buy their knitting needles and wool from Georgia's store linger for advice, for a coffee, for a chat and before they know it, every Friday night is knitting night. Finding a pattern! And as the needles clack, and the garments grow, the conversation moves on from patterns and yarn to life, love and everything. These women are of different ages, from different backgrounds and facing different problems, but they are drawn together by threads of affection that prove as durable as the sweaters they knit. The Friday Night Knitting Club - don't you want to join?
My favourite character was Georgia's daughter Dakota I think. I loved watching her grow up, search for her roots and I loved her passion for baking, one of my passions too! However, I did love all the characters. Georgia was a beautiful character; strong, independent, reliable and a real role model, showing that women, especially single-mothers can make it big in life, can achieve what they want.
I adored the Club and the people who came along. The attempts at knitting made me laugh, and made me realise how bad I would be if I tried, however, because of this book I do want to give knitting a go. The friendships formed and the way they stuck together through everything was beautiful. This showed how friends can be formed in crazy places, but they are friendships that will last.
Jacobs searched all kinds of issues, from knitting, to love, to race, to cancer. All were written about in a sensitive, commendable way and the issues are dealt with wonderfully.
My only complaints are that not all the characters were explored as much as I would have liked. Both K.C. and Marty I felt I didn't know enough about and there was one story line involving Anita that I didn't feel was finished.
Even though this is a book based around knitting, there was not an overload of knitting in the book, and actually, it shows how people of any age can enjoy sitting down and following a pattern.
9/10 - a lovely book, highly recommend it!
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Get your tissues at the ready........
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This is a great read for lovers of chick lit and knitting - like me! I must admit I did find the book a little slow to get going but I persisted with it and really warmed to the charachters.
The book tells a story of several women, all from different backgrounds bonded to gether by knitting and friendship. It does get really weapy though so a box of tissues is a real must!
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Most badly written book I've ever read
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The review title really says it all. This has to be one of the few exceptions to the rule, the flim can only improve on the book.
Beyond the poor writing style - did no-one bother hiring an editor? - the book was full of clichés and extremely predictable.
Knitters deserve so much more. Try something by the Yarn Harlot instead.
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Great girly book with an ending you don't see coming!
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Great book for girlie book club discussions!
Nice story about a group of friends who have little in common and find mutual satsisfaction at the knitting club.
The ending upset me a bit... didn't see it coming and wanted it to end nicer.
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Don't read this book:join a REAL knitting group
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Some misguided mag or other says that this is "worth taking a duvet day for", well only if you then use the duvet to smother yourself out of your misery. With leaden prose, devoid of the humour that often runs through chick lit, and with a cast of wooden characters, this book starts off as boring, descends into mawk, and ends up as cheese. (Cliches are its modus operandi). After a couple of chapters I flipped forward to see if it would get any better and realised that it was actually going to get far worse. I did try to make it to the end but...frankly, this is the biggest waste of money ever.
But, whatever you do, don't let reading this book put you off joining a real knitting group. In fact, don't read the book, just find a knitting group and have fun.
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