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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I read this book after having several of my friends recommend it. It was also a book club selection for our work book club. I thought it was going to be great but I was pretty disappointed. I didn't really think the females in the book were all that spectacular. They all had issues which just annoyed me more than anything. I didn't care about any of these characters! Maybe there were too many people...I'm not really sure but I felt like I didn't really get to know any of them. I also thought it was way too predictable to be sad at the end. This book seemed to have way to many cliches...unwed mother, cheating, widower, woman scorned, feminist etc etc. The writing wasn't terrible so it would be a good book if you just want something you don't have to think about but if you want something a little deeper try something else. (  ) b_arnold | Oct 26, 2009 |  I loved the story and the women! I was a part of a craft group of women (making baskets) for seventeen years. So I could identify. We got each other through life, and much of the time was talking, not necessarily weaving. As was shown in this story, we "raised" each other's children. The book is not very well written, a bit stilted. But I enjoyed the topic and will probably read more of Kate Jacobs' books. (  ) dorle2you | Oct 17, 2009 | I like the metaphors in the sectional headings about knitting. I’ve knit just enough in my life to understand them on a “knitting” level and to see the wisdom of the metaphor. It was a good literary technique. I bet that served as the outline for her first draft. I liked the beginning of the book, maybe the first third where she was introducing each character and telling their past. After that the plot was thin and predictable. Although in general I wasn't overly impressed with the writing, there were a number of passages that "spoke" to me. I've captured them in a collection I keep. So it was worth the read. (  ) beebeereads | Oct 10, 2009 | This book focuses on the interpersonal relationships of the knitters who meet every Friday Night at Walker & Daughter Yarn Shop in New York. Kind of reminded me of my own knitting group that I get together with on Thursday nights. Although the book mainly focuses on Georgia Walker and her daughter, Dakota, the reader also gets a glimpse inside the lives of the other Friday Night members. I thought it was quite well written and can't wait to read the next installment. (  ) WifeMomKnitter | Oct 6, 2009 | I’m sure by now, everyone is familiar with the premise of this book – it’s in the title, after all! A group of women join together, unintentionally at first, and form a knitting club that meets every Friday night at Walker & Daughter in Manhattan. While the knitting club is where we meet our cast of characters, it is really only the background in this charming tale. As a knitter myself, the book made me long to pick up one of my numerous projects and work on it. It’s hard when you’re torn between two of your favorite things, knitting and reading, because I at least cannot do both at once. However, I have no doubt that Georgia Walker, the owner of Walker & Daughter, would have been competent at doing the two things together! To read the rest of my review, please visit: http://www.dorolerium.com/?p=726 ( ) dorolerium | Sep 27, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0399154094, Hardcover)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(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:02 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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