|
| The Friday Night Knitting Club | 
| Author: Kate Jacobs
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
Buy Used: $2.33
You Save: $20.62 (90%)
New (45) Collectible (6) from $4.38
Avg. Customer Rating:  210 reviews
Sales Rank: 158399
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 0399154094
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780399154096
ASIN: 0399154094
Publication Date: January 18, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: GOOD USED copy. TEXT CLEAN. EDGEWEAR. CORNERS FRAYED.
|
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
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
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 205 more reviews...
 Knitting Life November 28, 2008
I really enjoyed this book and would recommended to anyone I know. I initially bought it unsure that it was really a book for me, but was I happily surprised. For me at least, this book in its creation shows the complexity of life with the complexity of learning how to knit. It can be frustrating at first but eventually you will create something of very own that you can be proud of. And yes there may be times where you will unravel some of your work to rework it, but you will learn something in the process that makes you a better knitter. But in the end, like life, you must bind your work off to begin a new one.
Yes, I'm a sap, but overall I think most anyone will enjoy this book. ;o) Happy reading.
 Unrealistic and cliche' ridden November 19, 2008
Gutsy young woman topped by red hair with uncontrollable curls - her grandmother lives in Scotland, of course. - CHECK
"Wealthy socialite" friend with unlimited cash whose patronage promises to make her career - CHECK
Handsome successful father of her child who begins to see the light about the heroine and worships the child, also with unlimited cash - CHECK
2 bedroom apartment in Manhattan upstairs from a knitting shop which is somehow financed by an unmarried mother with a low paying job - CHECK
Quirky, racially diverse group of friends willing to give and receive their support to one another - CHECK
Kindly elderly friend with seemingly unlimited financial resources who convinces heroine to start the shop based on the amazing "gift" for knitting she witnesses from the red headed stranger's knitting on a park bench in NYC.
Down to earth, heart of gold, native New Yorker deli owner downstairs from the shop who looks out for their welfare of the cast- CHECK
Good fiction has the ability to make something not believable seem believable, but this doesn't do that - it is just too contrived, politically correct, and unrealistic to be enjoyable.
Friday Night Knitting Club November 10, 2008
I really enjoyed this book. It was fairly predictable throughout, though there were a few unexpected twists. The message seemed to be that we can't run away from our family, and family love overcomes all other.
The Friday Night Knitting Club November 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was very easy (simple) reading, but never seemed to develop much of a plot. The characters seemed to be suited for 50+ year olds who never grew from the junior high stage of this type of story. After the first 14 chapters, I skipped to chapter 35 and finished the book, knowing the entire story.
 Amateurish and superficial November 9, 2008
As I read this book, I kept wondering how on earth it got published. I suspect that the publisher wanted to capitalize on the popularity of knitting. The characters are superficially drawn, the pace and plotting are jumpy and uneven, and the ending is right out of a bad soap opera. Thank goodness I checked this out from the library! If you're curious -- or think that your own love of knitting will help you get over the book's many flaws -- I suggest you do the same. Save your money to spend on some really nice yarn...............
|
|
|
Wildlife, nature and the Environment
Sponsored Links
Learn how to get your own Amazon Book shop | |
