Knitting Book Review!

It's not a knitting pattern book, a fictional book "centered" around knitting.

Here's my review of The Friday Night Knitting Club.

eh.

Without offending anyone (btw, that's one of my blogging goals. a lot of blogs are really just whining and griping. not mine!)... do you like Julia Roberts movies? Yes? You will like this book. It is a 'chick flick' book. Rumor has it, that fellow knitter Julia is making a movie based on this book. So, there you have it.

For some reason, I tend to like weird, dark books that stick with you, sometimes haunt you for days, weeks, years. My favorite author is Margaret Atwood. Beyond the famous The Handmaid's Tale, go read The Robber Bride. Go read The Blind Assassin. Go read Oryx and Crake. (You will never think about chicken nuggets in the same way again.) I don't really know why, I'm generally a happy person, my childhood was not troubled, I just dig her books and others that have so much that you want to and need to read again and again. I had some pretty awesome English teachers in high school, so maybe they just ingrained in me that books should have something deeper... But, I feel I don't have the capacity to write well myself at this late hour so I will stop. But, here's a shout-out (am I too old to say "shout-out"?) to Mrs. Martensen, Mrs. Jensen and the others whose names escape me tonight. English teachers rock.

Maybe I'll go pick up The Handmaid's Tale and see how it reads after becoming a mom...