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The Friday Night Knitting Club (Unabridged) | 
 enlarge | Author: Kate Jacobs
Publisher: audible.com
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  199 reviews
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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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 So Boring October 11, 2008
I struggled to finish this book. The characters are shallow. The plot is equivalent to that of a lame Lifetime movie. I wonder why this book has been a bestseller for so long. Maybe because its an easy read? I just thought it was a waste of my time.
 fun, easy read October 6, 2008
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.
Steel Magnolias in a Knitting Store October 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was an easy read and as I turned each page I was anticipating something DIFFERENT than the highly popular movie, Steel Magnolias. It was disappointing and if I wanted to relive the movie I would have rented it instead of reading a similar version of it which takes place in a Knitting store.
 Not memorable, but a pleasant read September 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Not enough depth for me. September 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Friday Night Knitting Club started out with so much promise, but it left me bored by the end. The characters had no depth and didn't seem connected on more than a very superficial level. Did the first few chapters make me want to start knitting? Yes. A yarn shop with bins of colorful yarn was a very appealing setting. Did I get the feeling that Georgia and James were in love? No. And what was the point of Cat? She tags along on a trip to Scotland and then she's barely mentioned while they are there. The whole reason Cat and Georgia had a falling out as teenagers didn't make sense. Teenagers can't keep those kinds of things secret.
I was disappointed to say the least.
Linda C. Wright
Author, One Clown Short
One Clown Short
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