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!
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