Book #5 "Friday Night Knitting Club" by Kate Jacobs: '"Can people just come here and not knit?" asked one of the college students, a tone of mild outrage in her voice. Oh, to be young and expect everything to be just so! "Who would thunk it?" replied Georgia, with a wink. She caught the girl's look of consternation. "No, everyone has to knit when they're here. I promise you. But not every person has to use yarn."' page 164.
Well this book is exactly what it sounds like it is about, a knitting club. It's about a group of unlikely people getting together once a week and just sit around and be together knitting. No, to be honest the whole club thing was really more of a side factor the book did focus mostly on everyone's life outside of the club and I can honestly say that when I started the book I wasn't thrilled at all and I was trying to figure out where the heck this was going but I slowly fell in love with all the characters from the single mother Georgia, to the clueless Cat, even to the wise Anita and everyone in-between.
Sad as it may sound this book even made me pic up my knitting that I haven't touched in a month. The crazy things books can make you do right? ;) This book is one of the ones that made me not want to finish reading it so I wouldn't have to say goodbye to the characters. I love books like this. I was just a book that really captured the real way people act from day to day instead of being a whole 'oh, BAM happy ending! There you go now you can go to bed happy' kinda book.
If your looking for something pick this one up and I promise if you stick with it you will not be sorry. And well if you are sorry you picked it up then all I can say is that I feel sorry for you.
Now, as you know I am going for 50 books this year and if I was on track I would've been starting #9 today but well, as I'm sure you can guess I'm not on track (shocker, I know!). So I will now be starting book #6 "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger. May I first say that that is one heck of a last name? I haven't seen the movie, don't know why just never got around to it I guess. But I got this for Christmas and am looking forward to getting started on it.
So yea, guess that's all for now,
Michaela Jane
PAGE COUNT: 1934
Oh, and did I mention that there is a second book to go with the "Friday Night Knitting Club"? So excited!
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Book #4: "The American Heiress" ...Finished!!!
Book #4 "The American Heiress" by Daisy Goodwin: "Cora shook her head. 'Well, have you ever known someone who is nice and nasty, who makes you love them one minute and hate them the next? Who makes you feel wonderful and terrible and you never know which one it is going to be?'" page 432
"The American Heiress" was, like most the books I tend to read, a time period book based in 1893 at the start of our story and follows the beautiful, spirited and not to mention richest girl in America; Cora Cash.
Cora's mother is determined to marry off her daughter to the best possible match so she take her to Europe, hoping Cora will catch the eye of a Prince or at least someone equally worthy. Within days of them being there Cora dose meet a Duke and within days of meeting her he proposes..from then on its all ups and downs the entire time as poor Cora tries her best to fit in with all the English ways and try to see what are truths and what are lies in this new world that she seems to have suddenly found herself in.
The plot was actually very good so I was pleasantly surprised, which is always nice. The one flaw I would say that I found a bit frustrating was that Goodwin spent a lot of time emphasizing the fact that Cora was a strong independent kind of woman, and yet throughout the story we see time and time again that she is getting pushed around or taken advantage of by someone or another. It just was a bit sad to never see her stand up for herself. However on the other hand I guess I see where Goodwin is coming from with the whole trying to make her seem more willing to do things other peoples ways in order to better fit into the life of a Duchess that she now has.
So in short if you are into the whole time period books thing I would highly recommend this one for you. Now moving on... NEXT BOOK #5 is "The Friday Night Knitting Club" by Kate Jacobs. I will admit to the fact now that I HAVE NO IDEA what this book is about. My older sister pointed it out at the Goodwill and said she enjoyed it so if it sucks we will blame her? Yep, sounds like a plan.
So that is all for now,
Michaela Jane
Page Count: 1574
"The American Heiress" was, like most the books I tend to read, a time period book based in 1893 at the start of our story and follows the beautiful, spirited and not to mention richest girl in America; Cora Cash.
Cora's mother is determined to marry off her daughter to the best possible match so she take her to Europe, hoping Cora will catch the eye of a Prince or at least someone equally worthy. Within days of them being there Cora dose meet a Duke and within days of meeting her he proposes..from then on its all ups and downs the entire time as poor Cora tries her best to fit in with all the English ways and try to see what are truths and what are lies in this new world that she seems to have suddenly found herself in.
The plot was actually very good so I was pleasantly surprised, which is always nice. The one flaw I would say that I found a bit frustrating was that Goodwin spent a lot of time emphasizing the fact that Cora was a strong independent kind of woman, and yet throughout the story we see time and time again that she is getting pushed around or taken advantage of by someone or another. It just was a bit sad to never see her stand up for herself. However on the other hand I guess I see where Goodwin is coming from with the whole trying to make her seem more willing to do things other peoples ways in order to better fit into the life of a Duchess that she now has.
So in short if you are into the whole time period books thing I would highly recommend this one for you. Now moving on... NEXT BOOK #5 is "The Friday Night Knitting Club" by Kate Jacobs. I will admit to the fact now that I HAVE NO IDEA what this book is about. My older sister pointed it out at the Goodwill and said she enjoyed it so if it sucks we will blame her? Yep, sounds like a plan.
So that is all for now,
Michaela Jane
Page Count: 1574
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