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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781585479634
Format: Large Print
ISBN: 1585479632
Label: Center Point Large Print
Manufacturer: Center Point Large Print
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 510
Publication Date: 2007-04
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
Studio: Center Point Large Print
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Product Description:
A charming and moving novel about female friendship and the experiences that knit us together-even when we least expect it.
Walker and Daughter is Georgia Walker's little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The Friday Night Knitting Club was started by some of Georgia's regulars, who gather once a week to work on their latest projects and to chat-and occasionally clash-over their stories of love, life, and everything in between.
Georgia has her hands full, juggling the demands of running the store and raising her spunky teen daughter, Dakota, by herself. Thank goodness for Anita, her mentor and dear friend, and the rest of the members of the knitting club-who are just as varied as the skeins of yarn in the shop's bins. There's Peri, a prelaw student turned handbag designer; Darwin, a somewhat aloof feminist grad student; and Lucie, a petite, quiet woman who's harboring some secrets of her own.
However, unexpected changes soon throw these women's lives into disarray, and the shop's comfortable world gets shaken up like a snow globe. James, Georgia's ex, decides that he wants to play a larger role in Dakota's life-and possibly Georgia's as well. Cat, a former friend from high school, returns to New York as a rich Park Avenue wife and uneasily renews her old bond with Georgia. Meanwhile, Anita must confront her growing (and reciprocated) feelings for Marty, the kind neighborhood deli owner. And when the unthinkable happens, they realize what they've created: not just a knitting club, but a sisterhood
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I love to knit and thought this would be a great book to read. I loved it and will read it again. I am glad the author came out with a second book to this which is excellent as well.
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I didn't even bother to finish this. I wasn't expecting the great American novel- but something light and entertaining. It was so predictable it was boring. Characters and plot felt plugged into a formula, as though the author was picturing it being made into a cheesy movie as she wrote it. Too many books in the world and too little time to spend it on ones like this.
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I enjoyed this book. It's not perfect but I liked coming to know these women. The main character is Georgia, who owns a knitting shop, which is the setting for much of the book. She has a 12 yr old biracial daughter, Dakota, whose father is an ex-boyfriend, who has come back into their lives after many years. The other main characters are members of the knitting group that meets at the store. They are a quirky bunch.
Some of the characters are more developed than others and I did not like a few of the plot twists, especially towards the end. With so many characters, it's to be expected that some are weaker than others. Overall, I was satisfied to spend time with the ladies in this book. I do think the cover blurb has it right. Steel Magnolias in Manhattan...I agree. I am looking forward to the movie.
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I am an avid reader and when my groom gifted me this book for Christmas I was so happy because it combined my 2 loves...reading and knitting!
however, after reading the book, I'm in all honesty disappointed in the book as a whole.
While I appreciate that this is the authors first novel, her 'styles' were hard to follow sometimes (the way she described things left me scratching my head sometimes) and she had very little dialog between the characters.
when one of the main characters went to the dr. I saw what was 'coming' a mile away and then barely had time to adjust to the fact they had health issues before said character passed away.....and with one simple sentence. This character deserved better, and had the author addressed the feelings of said character before her passing it may have led to more 'bonding' between reader/charcter but for me it was cold and it left me unfeeling about the whole thing.
I don't know if it was because the ... Read More
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Georgia Walker hosted a knitting group in her store on Friday nights. She didn't mean to do this. It just happened. The group contained new and old friends. Friends of obligation, childhood friends, matronly friends, casual friends and one that Georgia didn't seem to like at all for a long time. What happend is that these women bonded over knitting. Their freindships grew into very solid relationships. All of them grew, regardless of how loose the bonds were when the freindships started.
The freindships wove together like knitting, hence a two-fold meaning to the novel.
I'm not a knitter. I read this book because it was recommended by a co-worker. For me, the book started off very slowly. It was not until I was 1/3 of the way through this book that it flowed better.
The character development was done well. The characters stayed true to their personalities yet evolved and changed. The story flowed okay. I was not overly impressed with the ending. ... Read More
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