February 2012 Selection

Theresa has selected The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs as the February selection. Theresa was given the option of making a hostess choice selection this month, because she has never had a hostess choice.

From Good Reads:

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.

The Book Snobs Gathering

6:30 p.m., Monday, February 27, 2012, at Theresa's Home.

Theresa served two delicious soups including Tomato-Florentine and Lentil Curry. As usual, we started with wine and appetizers.

This book was not universally popular. A couple of members liked it so much they've already started reading the second book in the series. But there were a couple of us who did not care for it. Overall the club felt like there were too many characters and not enough character development. More than one member expressed that we didn't know the characters enough to care what happened to them.