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Business Stationary Mart - The Friday Night Knitting Club
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List Price: $14.00
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Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780425219096
ISBN: 0425219097
Label: Berkley Trade
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2008-01-02
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Studio: Berkley Trade
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Summary: Lots of issues here; SPOILERS
Comment: Okay so I read this book after my daughter recommended it; she read it through tears and thought it was great. I read it quickly; so I suppose it was interesting and I wanted to see what happened, but some of the scenes were really contrived and unbelievable. For instance, if Georgia decided to take her daughter to Scotland to meet her great-grandmother, why would the trip have to be THAT SAME WEEK as when the kid ran away? Why wouldn't she plan instead to go in the summer, after school was over? I couldn't understand why she was in such a hurry to make the trip happen; nor why she took her newly found ex-friend with her. That made NO sense. Also, when they get to Scotland, to the rental car place; the instruction that the salesman gives them is backwards...paperback page 205...it's actually the DRIVER who's on the curb side of the street when driving in the UK.
The ending was not much of a surprise; sad, though. And the neat wrapping up of every character's life...baby born the same time as... and Cat getting a great apt, and somehow the knit shop gets free rent? Why? And let's not forget that had Georgia read either of those 2 letters she got from James at the time she received them, the story wouldn't have happened! Who gets mail and saves it without reading...what willpower? and for what purpose?? and she just happened to take the letters with her to Scotland?
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Summary: Better than I expected
Comment: I really enjoyed this book. It was entertaining to read. I wasn't looking for deep characters or classic literature. I'll pass it on to my mom.
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Summary: Quick delivery of a book in mint condition
Comment: This is a book that is both a quick read AND a book that has some amazing insights into how many women think and deal with their personal and public lives. I cared about the characters and felt a connection to each one in some area of their story. The clever ties between how to knit to how to deal with issues was unique. A good read!
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Summary: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Comment: Ugly first--
The whole time I was reading this, I had a real sense of being manipulated by the author. There were just too many stereotypes and character interactions that stretched credibility to the breaking point. For example--is there any chance at all that you wouldn't recognize your very best high school friend 15 year later, no matter what physical transformation she'd undergone? I saw a distant acquaintance in line at the market after almost 25 years and knew her within seconds! And how is it that Georgia still had money problems after saying early on that she had enough to send her daughter to Harvard and then being paid $30,000 plus for Cat's two dresses AFTER that? There's more, but those were the worst.
Bad--
Did Ms Jacobs not have an editor? I noticed several spelling errors--and they weren't typos. Konked, anyone?
Good--
As jejeune as some of the writing, as most of the characters, and as utterly predictable as some of the plot points, I got up at six in the morning to finish this book. I wanted to know what happened. That's very good!
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Summary: As the cover says...
Comment: ... This plays out as a "Steel Magnolia's set in Manhattan" and I was not let down. A nicely written account of how womens lives connect and develop into deep friendships. I was hanging on the writers every word, not being able to put the book down. I wish this would be made into a movie soon. I cannot say enough good things about this story.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The New York Times bestselling sensation that's "Steel Magnolias set in Manhattan" (USA Today)-now in paperback.
Juggling the demands of her yarn shop and single-handedly raising a teenage daughter has made Georgia Walker grateful for her Friday Night Knitting Club. Her friends are happy to escape their lives too, even for just a few hours. But when Georgia's ex suddenly reappears, demanding a role in their daughter's life, her whole world is shattered.
Luckily, Georgia's friends are there, sharing their own tales of intimacy, heartbreak, and miracle making. And when the unthinkable happens, these women will discover that what they've created isn't just a knitting club: it's a sisterhood.
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