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7.27.2009

Friday Night Knitting Club

by Kate Jacobs
I avoided reading this book for years because it sounded formulaic and melodramatic.
And I was right.
Still, it was a good read, soap-operaish enough to be a good airplane, beach or car trip book.
It follows the story of a New York knitting club, the members' lives and manages to equate all life's lessons in cute little knitting homilies.
Someone is born, someone dies, someone is married and someone is divorced. Someone else finds love, someone grows up, and someone grows old.
The end.
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian that crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved. 
                                                                           Barbara Kingsolver