Book Reviews of The Friday Night Knitting Club

The Friday Night Knitting Club
The Friday Night Knitting Club
Author: Kate Jacobs
ISBN-13: 9780425223987
ISBN-10: 0425223981
Publication Date: 12/2007
Pages: 372
Rating:
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 124 ratings
Publisher: Berkley Books
Book Type: Paperback
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  • Currently 2/5 Stars.
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I was very disappointed with this book, maybe I had too high of expectations. It reached a point of being very predicatable and I lost all interest. I also got really sick of Georgia calling her daughter her little muffin girl--the term was used way too much. I did have Knit 2 on my WL but I cancelled it after finishing this one.
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
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4 member(s) found this review helpful.
Rarely does a book coax tears from me... but this one did. Great story, interesting characters - esp loved Gran. Despite making me cry, it was a good ending. Looking forward to reading the second one to see where the characters go from here.
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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I was a tad disappointed with this book. I felt that it moved too slowly. It just didnt have that spark that left me not wanting to put it down. I did enjoy it though, just not as much as I thought I would.
  • Currently 1.5/5 Stars.
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Fell in love with characters. Wonderful story to be dropped on our heads in the end. Book seemed to have been finished over nite and in such a hurry that you think you have skipped chapters or something, Sorry that I gave it my time.
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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I read some of the other reviews that said that people were disappointed in this book because it was a little predictable. Truthfully, it is a little predictable, but it is also a timeless story of women bonding together in tough circumstances regardless of how different they all are. I do wish that there had been a bit more character development for Darwin and Lucie. I really identified with Darwin, in particular. I love that she is so conflicted about traditional gender roles while struggling with actually desiring some of those roles in her own life. I did not like Cat Phillips at all, but she grew on me by the end of the book. If you like Steel Magnolias or Jodi Picoult books, you will probably like this book. If you don't like sappy books, it's probably not for you.
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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This was the best book I've read in ages. Loved it!
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
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I read this book directly after I read Audrey Niffenegger's "The Time Traveler's Wife", and I thought this book, while I liked the other, was about ten times better. It reminded me a little of Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club", with much less focus on culture and ethnicity and more focus on the unlikely bond between a hodgepodge of women.

Each character is so wonderfully written that you come to love them all and find yourself rooting for them as if you were one of the girls. I teared up in several places in the book (because I'm kind of a sentimental boob) and sobbed at the end. While the focus is not on knitting, per se, it made me wish that I knitted (knat?) Wonderful, highly recommended, although I am not sure how much it would appeal to most men. Women, particularly those over 30, I would imagine, will love it.
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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This book didn't meet my expectations. It started out well but branched off into too many side stories, and then tried way too hard to wrap them all up in a neat package by the book's end.
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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A very good book about friends and relationships. I loved it.
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Loved thisa book...sent to my sister.
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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I enjoyed this book about friendship and love. I especially liked the relationship between the main character, Georgia, and her daughter, Dakota. I will try to get the next book in the series called Knit Two. Want to see what happens when Dakota grows up!
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Though the story is easy and fun to follow, I found this book predictable and a little okay already get on with it. The way the book ended was disappointing, it was kind of like the author got sick of writing so decided to end the book.
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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I thought it was good - just a little boring.
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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A really good read about the kinds of relationships women form in their lives - I enjoyed it.