The Friday Night Knitting Club | Kate Jacobs

The Friday Night Knitting Club | Kate Jacobs | Kept me in Stitches

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The Friday Night K...

	The Friday Night Knitting Club Kate Jacobs Berkley Trade, 2008 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 204 reviews view larger image
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Excellent reading...

The Friday Night Knitting Club is an excellent book. The characters are well developed and the interactions are memorable. I couldn't stop reading this book...it was just great. I can't knit but I learned how a craft could not only produce wonderful garments, but can also produce binding (and lasting) friendships.

Kept me in Stitches

I listened to this book over two days and thoroughly enjoyed it. I managed to clean my whole house and walk an endless beach and back (luckily alone - tears in a crowd while listening to a book can be embarrassing) while enjoying the book.

The woman she has reading the novel does a wonderful job and I think really made the book come alive. There were a lot of different characters she had to portray and she captured their characters with her voice very very well. I hope Kate has this woman read "Comfort Food". I think she enriched the novel.

I loved the chapter tie in lessons woven with knitting lessons/truths... although you need not be a knitter to appreciate. The story line was full and entertaining throughout the book and each of the women's stories was something every woman could relate to.

I will not spoil the ending. I will just say... bring kleenex.

A very lovely first novel for sure. I will be reading/listening to "Comfort food".

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Skip the audio - CD version

Note: I've tried to be cryptic but one comment may still have a SPOILER effect

The nature of this book reminded me of the working mom's version of Sex & the City. The style of the narration, the love affair with New York, the group of vastly diverse women who come together to support each other etc. If you liked the tone of that series (or the book), you will probably like this book (although even my eternally optimistic nature scoffed at rich-well-connected-generous-friends as plot devices who tend to swoop in with offers of loans and top-quality health care).

Still, had I read the book in paperback format instead of listening to the audio version, I would have more than likely given it 4 stars on the strength of Georgia's character alone.

What drove me to distraction was the use of atrocious accents by the narrator. Hearing this woman try to read dialog in character with accents ranging from Manhattan Socialite to West Indies to Scottish and, worst of all, attempting to sound like a suave 40-year-old African American man from Baltimore, took me completely out of the story.

The way she fell in and out of the West Indies & Scottish accents - getting some words spot on while others were mangled - was so irritating (and frequently comical) that I quickly found I was listening for the way the words were said & not hearing what the characters were actually saying.

I will probably read the author's new book, Comfort Food, but you can be sure I will get it in paperback.

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Stolen Magnolias

I really felt like this book was based on Steel Magnolias but change the place and what drove the women all together. In the movie it was their location, in this book, it is about Knitting. The story is predictable and the ending was probably thrown in there because she didn't know how else to end the book.

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