Sweet story, just what I was in the mood to read at the time. It definitely made me want to start knitting during and after I finished reading it. It's kind of like the Jane Austen book club but with knitting replacing the books :). ( )

I just finished The Friday Night Knitting Club. I found it hard to get into at first. I love knitting and have been in knitting groups. About 100 pages in I got the feeling of the group. Then I couldn't put the book down. I am not sure how I feel about the end. I wanted more. ( )

It was a good book! A story of friendship, mothers and daughters, and losing someone you love. It does have a sad ending. ( )

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. ( )

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. ( )

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. ( )

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. ( )

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!

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Follow the ups and downs of a disparate group of women who knit, or try to knit. Georgia forms the Friday Night Knitting Club for the customers who call in to her wool shop for more than just the wool. Patterns are shared, friendships are made, confidences shared, support is given in times of trouble.

Basic chick lit - cardboard cut out characters; leaden prose; cliches by the bucket load; and plot lines that are predictable.

I've read worse - but I've also read a lot better.

For heartwarming female relationships, you' be far better off discovering Liz Byrski. ( )

Characters and events very good for most of the book. Found the final events hurried over and little examination of the characters. ( )

Opening Sentence: '…Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. no exceptions…’

This book has been on my list for a while, finally decided it's turn had come and I was not disappointed.

Georgia Walker is the main focus of the story. She is completely focused on running her knitting store, Walker and Daughter, and raising her 12-year-old daughter, Dakota. Dakota was the result of a short-lived relationship with James. James was not ready for fatherhood and left to work in Europe. He has not seen Georgia, or Dakota, since. With the help of Anita, a lively widow in her seventies, Georgia starts the Friday Night Knitting Club, which draws loyal customers and a few oddballs. The main 'sub-plots' are Darwin Chiu, an independent student, who believes knitting is downright old-fashioned, but she's drawn to the club as her marriage threatens to end. Lucie is a television producer, and is about to become a mother for the first time, she picked the father carefully - but didn't actually tel him that he was to be a sperm doner. Then there is Georgia's long time friend, book editor KC, whose work life has come to a crossroads. Finally there is Peri, who works at Walker and Daughter by day and designs handbags at night. Life is good - then James returns to the US, hoping for a second chance.

The female characters were very diverse they were of varying ages, walks of life and economic circumstances - and they each came alive for me. The author cleverly allowed the characters to keep their differences and yet unite them into a deep supportive friendship group. The women all have flaws, believable flaws, and they each make some bad decisions, which again is true to life. It was so nice not to have a stream of perfect characters that real women can't relate too.

The ending shocked me, didn't really see it coming, but once the storyline started I sort of knew that the probability was there - so I will have to get the sequel KNIT TWO to see how it all turned out, even though THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB is complete in it's own right. ( )

A good read, not what you would imagine from the title. It is more about the lives of the women that meet up at the group each week than directly about knitting.

Just didn't like it. Had to make myself finish it. ( )

Friday Night Knitting Club is pretty much what you would expect it to be. It's heavy duty chick lit with very little substantive writing.

The plot revolves around a knitting shop run by a single mother who makes friends while selling yarn. The shop eventually becomes a home for a knitting club (on Friday nights) whose members are a group of women, each with her own personal struggle. The story line was predictable and hokey.

The characters were also predictable and fell very flat. The older mother/grandmother figure was described as spunky and a spitfire, the single mother and business owner always took care of everyone except......wait for it.....herself. It was that kind of thing.

Overall, I would say not even a good beach read. Don't waste your time. ( )

Read this in a weekend. Love looking at the complexity of female friendships. ( )

I listened to this book to take a break from mysteries. By the end, I was groaning and shouting in the car as Jacobs hit every tear jerking romantic fantasy know to man/woman. All the characters were pretty stock, Darwin being a possible exception but the more i think about it, the less sure I am of that opinion. ( )

I have mixed feelings. I liked it: I didn't love it. I enjoyed it: I was disappointed. Georgia Walker is a single mother, raising her pre-teen daughter and supporting herself through her knitting/yard store. Lost and lonely customers begin gathering each Friday night to knit, and through that, come together as friends. Predictably, each one finds herself by the end of the book.Set in New York City, the "F" word is sprinkled through-out and there is a distinct lack of morality. The characters here are diverse. Pretty much every ethnicity is represented, and all, in some way, are misfits. However, Georgia is likeable. You really root for her and Dakota and James. The idea of women coming together though knitting echoes the Elm Creek Quilter novels from Jennifer Chiaverini. I admit I enjoyed those novels much more than this one. It might be that the book was due back to the library and so I rushed through it. I'm also re-reading [b:Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire|6|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)|J.K. Rowling|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156039815s/6.jpg|3046572] and I found myself wanting this book to be finished so that I could get back to Harry. ( )

For a light and easy summer read, this book is a pretty good choice. It's entertaining and the story is interesting, if predictable at times. The writing isn't perfect; the style is sometimes inconsistent and there really isn't much description of the actual club meetings or all of its members. The club is almost more of a background thing until the last third of the novel. Still, if you're reading this on the beach, it'll work just fine. ( )

A light read, perfect for keeping me occupied during air travel. The knitting content is minimal and serves primarily as the common ground holding the characters together. All the women are strong; there are only two male characters and they are both marginal. The writing is not beautiful, but the book is fun to read. ( )

This was somewhat predictable and unsatisfying chick lit. It’s the stories of a group of seven women who are part of a loosely-organized “Friday Night Knitting Club” that meets at Walker and Daughter, a yarn store operated by single mom Georgia Walker. Unfortunately, following so many characters proves to be a little too much for the 360-page novel, and some of them are underdeveloped. The book does come together fairly well by the time of its tearjerker ending, though. Still, for light reading, I would recommend this, and the characters intrigued me enough that I would consider the sequel the next time I need a beach read. I’m not a knitter, but there’s really not that much knitting in this book – just little sections interspersing chapters describing various knitting techniques and stitches.

I listened to this audiobook (read by Carrington MacDuffie, whose silky alto is quite good) right around my first trip to New York City. For me the best part of the book was seeing some of the places and areas mentioned in it. The fictional Walker and Daughter yarn store is at Broadway and 77th on the Upper West Side; we stayed at the lovely Lucerne Hotel one block off Broadway at 79th and Amsterdam. One character lives in the historic San Remo between 74th and 75th on Central Park West, just a few blocks away. Canadian author Kate Jacobs spent a decade living and working in New York City, and it shows. ( )

A book whose characters will pull you through to the end--somewhat clunky and predictable writing will make you wish an editor had asserted some power over the final draft. ( )

Too many of the central characters are left underdeveloped. I expected to see a group of women supporting each other through various crisis, but was disappointed by the fairy tale nature of the stories. Spoiler alert. Georgia's one true love realizes she is his only real love and comes back; Anita finds tender love and romance at the age of 70; Darwin knits a sweater and her husband forgives her infidelity; Cat does one noble act and gets a comfy apartment and a successful business; Peri ditches law school, knits a purse and Bloomingdales is all over her; KC gets laid off, doesn't appear to have any financial worries, and gets into law school; and, Lucie is a middle aged single woman freaked out over her biological clock, stuck in a dead job for health care benefits who just happens to be a brillant film maker. I don't even know one person with that kind of luck let alone seven. ( )

My book club was looking for some "light reading" after several challenging books. This filled the bill. Characters are well realized even though the story is rather predictable - except for the end!! ( )

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Really great book although it read a little like Terms of Endearment. Definitely would recommend this. ( )