Not memorable, but a pleasant read

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	• The Friday Night Knitting Club Kate Jacobs Berkley Trade, 2008 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 198 reviews view larger image
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fun, easy read

I enjoyed reading this book. For the most part, the characters are easy to visualize and follow. However, there are too many characters, which just complicate the story. I thought it had a good message regarding relationships and friendship and would recommend it.

Not memorable, but a pleasant read

Georgia Walker is a single mom who has raised a daughter while balancing the responsibilities of her own business. Women tend to congregate in Georgia's yarn shop and eventually the Friday Night Knitting Club is born. There are several women in this group and the author fills us in on their backgrounds and current situations. As the book progresses, the women go through divorce, illness, and changing relationships with each other and with family members.

I would have to agree with many other reviewers that these characters never became fully real or well-developed for me. Their stories were interesting, but they were told in a somewhat distant manner by the author and I did not become fully engaged in their situations. Still it was not a bad read and some women will probably enjoy it more than I did.

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Kept me in Stitches

I listened to this book over two days and thoroughly enjoyed it. I managed to clean my whole house and walk an endless beach and back (luckily alone - tears in a crowd while listening to a book can be embarrassing) while enjoying the book.

The woman she has reading the novel does a wonderful job and I think really made the book come alive. There were a lot of different characters she had to portray and she captured their characters with her voice very very well. I hope Kate has this woman read "Comfort Food". I think she enriched the novel.

I loved the chapter tie in lessons woven with knitting lessons/truths... although you need not be a knitter to appreciate. The story line was full and entertaining throughout the book and each of the women's stories was something every woman could relate to.

I will not spoil the ending. I will just say... bring kleenex.

A very lovely first novel for sure. I will be reading/listening to "Comfort food".

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A charming and moving novel about female friendship and the experiences that knit us together-even when we least expect it. Walker and Daughter is Georgia Walker's little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The Friday Night Knitting Club was started by some of Georgia's regulars, who gather once a week to work on their latest projects and to chat-and occasionally clash-over their stories of love, life, and everything in between. Georgia has her hands full, juggling the demands of running the store and raising her spunky teen daughter, Dakota, by herself. Thank goodness for Anita, her mentor and dear friend, and the rest of the members of the knitting club-who are just as varied as the skeins of yarn in the shop's bins. There's Peri, a prelaw student turned handbag designer; Darwin, a somewhat aloof feminist grad student; and Lucie, a petite, quiet woman who's harboring some secrets of her own. However, unexpected changes soon throw these women's lives into disarray, and the shop's comfortable world gets shaken up like a snow globe. James, Georgia's ex, decides that he wants to play a larger role in Dakota's life-and possibly Georgia's as well. Cat, a former friend from high school, returns to New York as a rich Park Avenue wife and uneasily renews her old bond with Georgia. Meanwhile, Anita must confront her growing (and reciprocated) feelings for Marty, the kind neighborhood deli owner. And when the unthinkable happens, they realize what they've created: not just a knitting club, but a sisterhood

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