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| The Friday Night Knitting Club | 
 enlarge | Author: Kate Jacobs
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
Buy Used: $1.85
You Save: $12.15 (87%)
New (69) Used (212) Collectible (2) from $1.85
Avg. Customer Rating:  210 reviews
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0425219097
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780425219096
Publication Date: January 2, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: The text is clean with some moderate exterior wear.
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| Customer Reviews:
Pretty Bland.... March 18, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Long, drawn out and not so interesting. I agree with the rater from Lancaster below...I live in Harrisburg and if your kid goes to Harrisburg High, you sure don't live on a farm!!!!! The farms are no way near the city limits. Had she used Lancaster as her farm location, it would have made more sense. Hopefully the movie will be a bit more interesting!
 More a novel about a novel about a knitting club March 17, 2007
17 out of 20 found this review helpful
Meh. This book didn't really grab me to begin with, but I soldiered on, then ended up skimming the second half. I realize other people loved it, and that's fine, but I felt it left a lot to be desired. I don't enjoy reading detailed descriptions of a screenplay, and that's how this novel came across to me.
I never got into the characters. I read a lot *about* them, and I read *about* their conversations, but nothing they did or said made them live in my mind. They all had identifiable characteristics that were stuck on them like labels, and they were presented in too cerebral a way.
I found the main character unappealing in many ways. Oh, she was feisty and strong and all that jazz, but she was really all about herself and how she was wronged by everybody and that gave her special rights. For example, did it not occur to the character (by way of the author) that her daughter's father would have some basic legal rights, especially if he acknowledged paternity? The law stands regardless of what arrangements the parents do or do not make. That plot point, as well as many of the others, was too contrived to get past.
The book is sloppy with details. I laughed out loud when I read about Georgia growing up on a Pennsylvania farm, then about her attendance at "Harrisburg High." There is a LOT of farmland in the area of Harrisburg (I live 40 miles away, in Lancaster County) but I doubt any of it is in the city of Harrisburg's school district. How did an editor miss that? Most 4th graders know that Harrisburg is the capitol of Pennsylvania and likely to be a bit more urban.
I didn't buy for a minute Georgia's designing and knitting one, let alone two stunning evening gowns. The work involved is mindboggling, yet she accomplished this while running a store, raising a daughter--did anyone sit down and think about how many stitches were in those dresses? And if she was that good a designer, why was she struggling and living from day to day? These questions are only a few that popped up in my mind as I slogged through the novel.
Overall, I felt as if the author was trying to manipulate the reader: feel this way about Georgia, that way about Darwin, this way about Anita or Lucie. I didn't. Furthermore, Jacobs gets a little heavy-handed in the life lessons department. The bits relating knitting to life are nice enough, but others, such as Stephanie "Yarn Harlot" Pearl-McPhee do it oh so much better.
Written for Julia Roberts, and it worked! March 12, 2007
9 out of 18 found this review helpful
Congrats to the highly successful first-time author, or her agent/editor/publisher, whoever it was who decided that putting Julia Roberts into the book would entice the actress to read it, buy the story and turn it into a movie. That's exactly what's happening. This book is not truly 'about' knitting as some reviewers have noticed(no one who picks up this book thinks they're going to learn to knit from a novel. Even the newest knitters realize that). Substitute "book club" for "knitting club" and you get the same idea. A friend of mine who owns a yarn shop and designs patterns on a small scale said she laughed out loud at the scene where the main character is sitting in the park knitting and a stranger compliments her on her project, suggests that people would pay good money for such hand knit items and thus, wow, a new career is born! Selling hand knits! Easy money! Everyone who has ever knitted on a train, a plane, anywhere in public, will get a chuckle out of this scene. My friend said it qualified the book for "science fiction," as she knows how hard it is to make a living running a yarn shop. If you're willing to suspend disbelief, go along for the duration of the tale, but I have to say I've had more fun reading the Monica Ferris "needlework mysteries" which are set in a yarn shop and spiced with knitting and stitching tidbits throughout the stories. In "Friday Night Knitting Club" I got the impression the author was more interested in the IDEA of knitting as a currently in vogue hobby than in the craft itself, and the characters come across much the same.
 The Friday Night Knitting Club March 11, 2007
9 out of 16 found this review helpful
This was a wonderful book- there are many different emotions in it. I read a library copy of this and then bought me own copy as I will read it again. Have a box of kleenex when reading.
No work of literature, this March 9, 2007
14 out of 25 found this review helpful
Nice try for a first novel, and I think the film may be better than the book. But all in all, very bland. Maybe her sophomore effort will be more palatable.
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