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  • Friday Night Knitting Club

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    Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 by slowe

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      From Publishers Weekly
      I just picked this one up today at Costco.  Can’t wait to start it!

      Susan

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      Between running her Manhattan yarn shop, Walker & Daughter, and raising her 12-year-old biracial daughter, Dakota, Georgia Walker has plenty on her plate in Jacobs’s debut novel. But when Dakota’s father reappears and a former friend contacts Georgia, Georgia’s orderly existence begins to unravel. Her support system is her staff and the knitting club that meets at her store every Friday night, though each person has dramas of her own brewing. Jacobs surveys the knitters’ histories, and the novel’s pace crawls as the novel lurches between past and present, the latter largely occupied by munching on baked goods, sipping coffee and watching the knitters size each other up. Club members’ troubles don’t intersect so much as build on common themes of domestic woes and betrayal. It takes a while, but when Jacobs, who worked at Redbook and Working Woman, hits her storytelling stride, poignant twists propel the plot and help the pacing find a pleasant rhythm. (Jan.)
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        • jok wrote Jul 22, 2008

        • I loved this book!  It was my first time trying the Sony ebook reader I received for Christmas.  While I didn’t love the ereader relative to having a book in my hands (and it will be a lifesaver when I travel) I still couldn’t put it down, the story really pulled me in.  I am also a knitter so I was lusting after the yarn as well.


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        • changingpeople wrote Jul 23, 2008

        • This sounds great! It will be on my list when w eland in Virginia in a fortnight. Not sure if I can actually buy it in UK. But I love to knit.  

          In fact I often use knitting as a team building exercise in my training! The men get really stuck in, but then, Kaffe Fassett is a man and knitting began with fishermen so it shouldn’t be a surprise!

          I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve got hold of a copy.
          Happy reading all,
          Jane
          www.changingpeople.co.uk


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        • jok wrote Jul 23, 2008

        • An EReader is an electronic book.  You download books onto it and you can carry dozens of books with you in your purse. I travel a lot so it is great for me as I am a voracious reader.  Half of the weight of my suitcase is usually books.  This is the size of a small paperback.  It took some getting used to but it is worth it.

          Cheers!


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