Friday Night Knitting Club was my Book Club’s pick this month. It’s the story of a single mother who opens a knitting shop in New York City. Through a series of coincidences, a little knitting group materializes, and begins to meet in the knitting shop on Friday nights (hence the title). The bulk of the story takes the reader through the shopowner’s life conflicts, and the rest of the knitting group’s immediate experiences. It’s a story of women, friendship, love, and motherhood.
It’s also a story I still can’t decide if I liked. I finished the book on Saturday, and have visited it again and again, rereading passages and looking up specific points to the story. I almost feel like there is more to the story that was left untold, or maybe I just want the story to be different. But even though I can’t decide if it ranks as one of my favorites, I think because of my indifference it’s worth the read. It will give you something to discuss with your girlfriends, mothers, sisters, cousins….It will give you something to think about.
And it might make you want to knit. I kinda do.
‘Knit Too’ is the sequel, due out in paperback in early November. Also being released next month is the third in the trilogy, ‘Knit the Season’ a holiday centered book with the characters. I enjoyed the book and the makeshift ‘family’ that they created for themselves among such different women. From the patriarchal Anita – to the troubled graduate student, Darwin – the women were bound together by their commonalities and not their differences.
I have been trying to read this book, and I too am not sure if I like it. I am a knitter and there are several knitting groups around, so if you want to learn, ….
This was definitely not one of my favorites…not sure why, but I think it might be her writing style. It seemed to take forever to develop the characters and still I felt like something was missing even when I figured out who they all were…and definitely did not care for the abrupt ending.
There haven’t been too many I didn’t like since being in club…
Although I got bogged down a bit in Scotland, it was overall an enjoyable read. I’d say I liked it, but it’s definitely not a favorite.