After giving up temporarily on Mansfield Park, I wanted a quick and easy read that let me get lost in its pages. I found it in this book. I was able to completely lose myself in the story of a knitting club and the lives of its individual members.
The book follows Georgia and her daughter Dakota. Georgia is a single mom who opened a knitting store 12 years earlier to support her and her daughter. The store has been featured in a couple of magazine articles and newspapers, so it is beginning to make a name for itself. Anita, an older lady who helps out at the store, starts an unofficial Friday Night Knitting Club, where anyone can come, sit around, and work on knitting projects while they talk about life. Everything is going along fine and good until James, the father of Dakota, comes back into the picture, wanting to be a part of Dakota's life. This spins everything out of control as Georgia has to decide whether or not to let James back into her life.
The book also follows the other members of the club: Anita and her struggle to join the dating scene again after the death of her husband, Darwin, who doesn't knit, but is writing her thesis, using the club as research, Peri who also works at the store, but is starting her own purse line, KC, an old co worker of Georgia's who is making some big life changes, and Lucie who has decided that she wants a baby, with or without a man in her life.
Like I said, this book was a fairly quick read. I basically started and finished it over a weekend. The story draws you in, and you get wrapped up in the lives of these women. Besides the fact that Georgia owns her own business and it is successful, just like I want my future bookstore to be, I was able to relate to all of the characters in some way or another. The women in the book are just average, everyday women going after their dreams. I loved that about this book.
I would recommend this book to anyone looking to escape their own world for a while. It allowed me to visit New York and make some friends, which is what a good book should do in my opinion: take you away for a couple of hours.
Next up, I'm reading 1776. I'm enjoying it so far, but have reached a dilemma. Do I finish this book before jumping into the library books I checked out, or do I just read the library books first since I own 1776? These are the tough questions in life. . . :)
Until next time,
~Tara
