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The Friday Night Knitting Club | 
| Author: Kate Jacobs
Creator: Carrington Macduffie
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  170 reviews
Sales Rank: 739598
Media: MP3 CD
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 1433201828
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781433201820
ASIN: 1433201828
Publication Date: June 2007
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Product Description
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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A bit too much... July 17, 2008
Overall, this was a sweet story of friendship and of women working together to support one another, with knitting but also with life issues.
Here are the problems... (spoilers!)
I really think the author tried to cram in too much here. Georgia is a single mother with business sense and ambition. That's great. But the absentee father of her daughter happens to be black, making her daughter bi-racial. When he comes back into their lives (too easily to be convincing) she tells him that she's read up on issues of biracial children and how to help Dakota deal with whatever she might encounter because of it. James is skeptical. But then that's over... Dakota never has to deal with any race-related issues at all, so we don't know how that issue is resolved.
Lucie gets herself pregnant by a guy she met on the Internet, but she evidently never tells him or her family that she's having a baby. She even mentions at one point that she's not going to tell her parents about the baby, but don't you think they're going to find out eventually? And she goes to Georgia for advice about being a single mom, but Georgia never once asks who the father is or how he feels about fatherhood? One would think that as a single parent, Georgia would encourage her to get the father involved, since she knows how hard it is to do it completely alone. But no, that's never mentioned.
Darwin cheats on her long-distance husband with a friend of a friend. She finally confesses this to him on the phone, and he hangs up on her. But the next time they mention him, it's when he shows up on Darwin's doorstep, ready to forgive her. Hello? What transpired in between?
KC goes to law school, but what was the point of her character? She just seemed like filler to me. She didn't really add anything for me.
I do appreciate trying to make the story complex with so many storylines, but there are so many things left unresolved or skimmed over. I'll give Jacobs's next novel a try, but I'm curious about how she would respond to this.
 blech! why can't I give zero stars? July 16, 2008
I *never* write reviews. This book is so bad, I just can't help myself. I really really really wanted to like it. My MIL gave me this book because she thought it was fun and I frequent a knitting club myself. I just have to ask myself though...why did the author bother with the cover and calling it a "novel"? Just cast the chick-flick already! It reads like every other chick movie out there. The cast is predictable and so very boring. Clearly Georgia is written with Ashley Judd in mind, Cat can be Helen Hunt maybe? Taye Diggs could easily play James Foster. It could be a golden opportunity for some up and coming young tween star to make her name as Dakota. I hate to give a bad review as my first but zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......
 Good airplane reading. July 14, 2008
I enjoyed the book for what it was, (fun reading on a plane). It was a little more realistic than many of the books of this genre. Even though the book touched on race and religion a little, that could have been developed more. The main character is built up by her friends as being their rock, however, I don't really see why. She avoids conflict and avoids checking up on her health and her spiritual self when she really could have done better. I don't really see why she was so mad with her parents. Even though they weren't excited about the baby, her Dad did make a crib for goodness sake! Isn't that huge effort worth something?She really should have read James' letters when he sent them. A lot of heartache could have been avoided! Also, why did she take her daughter to Scotland when the daughter really wanted to go to Baltimore? Nevertheless - Many of the issues brought up in the story were very close to home and caused me to think a little (which I usually don't end up doing when I read this sort of book). Good effort for a first book.
A Good, Fun Read...Not One of My Top Favorites Though July 13, 2008
I felt like the story started out slow, but once the author delved into the world of each of these remarkable characters, I was able to get to know them and really be able to relate. That is when I started to enjoy the novel. All of the women come together to the knitting club, and this club is sort of the foundation that holds all these unique women together. And then there's Georgia, who is pretty much the glue that holds this foundation together. The reader will quickly fall in love with her and admire her for her sturdiness, compassion, and independence.
So far so good right? Yes! But the ending left me very upset because even though maybe it was inevitable how it should end, I think the author could have done a better job at concluding. Maybe that is where her lack of skill as a writer is demonstrated. Overall though, her writing was captivating, funny, and exceptional.
Absolutely AWFUL - Spoiler!! July 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I muddled through this book, thinking that I could forgive the bad writing and poor character development - it would be just a mindless read for a couple of summer days. And I knit, so that hooked me in a little bit... and then a main character DIES! Of ovarian cancer!! It would have been MUCH better if the character had BEAT cancer - but of course, I don't think this author had it in her to write a decent novel...
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