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The Friday Night Knitting Club | 
| Author: Kate Jacobs
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  117 reviews
Sales Rank: 316
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0425219097
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780425219096
ASIN: 0425219097
Publication Date: January 2, 2008
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Product Description
The New York Times bestselling sensation that's "Steel Magnolias set in Manhattan" (USA Today)-now in paperback.
Juggling the demands of her yarn shop and single-handedly raising a teenage daughter has made Georgia Walker grateful for her Friday Night Knitting Club. Her friends are happy to escape their lives too, even for just a few hours. But when Georgia's ex suddenly reappears, demanding a role in their daughter's life, her whole world is shattered.
Luckily, Georgia's friends are there, sharing their own tales of intimacy, heartbreak, and miracle making. And when the unthinkable happens, these women will discover that what they've created isn't just a knitting club: it's a sisterhood.
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 Friday Night Knitting Club May 2, 2008
My wife first read the the book and found it very entertaining, so we purchased a copy for our daughter as a gift.
 so-so May 1, 2008
Really liked this one at first...but things started becoming unbelievable (Cat going on the trip -- yeah right) and the abrupt major ending...went downhill very fast.
Good, a bit uneven in character development April 30, 2008
While overall this book is a good read, it isn't great. The characters are uneven in their development and I didn't deeply care about many of them. A couple of surprising situations help to keep this from being formula based.
 Check it out at the library instead April 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This should have been a charming short story. Cross "Love Story" with "Days of Our Lives", add muffins, knitting, and badly written racial elements. Sound bad? It was terrible. The plot twists were easy to foresee, and some transitioned so badly I had to reread the passages. Don't waste your money, go to the library.
 beware the blurbs April 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Some blurb on the cover read "It's like 'Steel Magnolias' set in Manhattan." It isn't, but now you know the basic arc of the plot. The book's great "surprise" is spoiled for anyone who has seen "Steel Magnolias." The world of the knitting club is a little closer to Lake Woebegone than Steel Magnolias (but without the satire): all the women are strong, and all the men are honorable, everyone does the right thing (or to make proper amends when they don't), and in every tragedy, characters find Nobility, Strength, and A Great Life Lesson. If only life were so carefully, earnestly, meaningful! The characters as ideas are interesting, but in action and conversation they are predictable and a little stiff. The neatness of the plot - the intersections of characters and events, the way every plot thread is neatly tied off (like a sweater??) - saps a lot of power from the story.
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