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Knit the Season (Friday Night Knitting Club #3)
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Kate Jacobs
A new heartwarming novel from the #1 "New York Times"- bestselling author.
"Knit the Season" is a loving, moving, laugh-out-loud celebration of special times with friends and family. The story begins a year after the end of Knit Two, with Dakota Walker's trip to spend the Christmas holidays with her Gran in Scotland-accompanied by her father, her grand...more
"Knit the Season" is a loving, moving, laugh-out-loud celebration of special times with friends and family. The story begins a year after the end of Knit Two, with Dakota Walker's trip to spend the Christmas holidays with her Gran in Scotland-accompanied by her father, her grand...more
Hardcover, 260 pages
Published
November 3rd 2009
by Putnam Adult
(first published January 1st 2009)
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I feel that this is a great end to the series and am hoping this is indeed the last book. I enjoyed the first book very much, and was excited to get the second book and then quickly disappointed when I read it.
This book was more tolerable than the last book, however there were a few things that could have been changed. I'm happy to see that the writer dropped the racial issues with Dakota, that was really annoying in the second book.
There was a bit too much opinions from ...more
This book was more tolerable than the last book, however there were a few things that could have been changed. I'm happy to see that the writer dropped the racial issues with Dakota, that was really annoying in the second book.
There was a bit too much opinions from ...more
A época festiva que se aproxima é a altura ideal para a jovem Dakota Walker exibir os seus dotes culinários, isto se não estiver demasiado ocupada a tricotar na Walker & Filha, a mais acolhedora loja de lãs de Manhattan… Graças à família e às amigas do Clube de Tricô, Dakota conhece o verdadeiro valor da amizade. Nos anos que se seguiram à morte da mãe, todos a acarinharam e ajudaram a crescer. Entre confissões, desabafos, novas e antigas paixões, o grupo resiste à dura rotina nova-iorquina e co...more
KNIT THE SEASON is my first Kate Jacobs book. I realize that I began this "series" on book three, and I understand that these are continuing characters. I also realize that I did not get much enjoyment from the story and found most of the characters dull and lackluster and the story less than engrossing.
A great deal of the story involves reminiscences about Georgia, the joint owner of a knitting shop. For someone who has been dead for six years there is a lot of print devo...more
A great deal of the story involves reminiscences about Georgia, the joint owner of a knitting shop. For someone who has been dead for six years there is a lot of print devo...more
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This is the third book in the Friday Night Knitting Club series. It picks up immediately after Knit Two. Dakota is going to cooking school and the holidays are fast approaching. She is feeling the pressure because she has set up an internship at a hotel over Christmas and her father has just arranged for everyone to go see Gran in Scotland for the holidays. Peri has also just told her about an incredible opportunity she was offered in Paris but that would take her away from Walker and Daughter. ...more
This book was given to me as a gift, and as I enjoy reading books about the holidays during the month of December, it proved to be just the right time ...
The story revolves mainly around Dakota Walker, who has left college to attend culinary school, while also keeping up with things at the yarn shop of her late mother, Walker & Daughter. She has help in the person of Peri, who manages things day-to-day, as well as from the women in the Friday Night Knitting Club, and Dakota's father...more
The story revolves mainly around Dakota Walker, who has left college to attend culinary school, while also keeping up with things at the yarn shop of her late mother, Walker & Daughter. She has help in the person of Peri, who manages things day-to-day, as well as from the women in the Friday Night Knitting Club, and Dakota's father...more
Kate Jacobs has come out with the latest installment of the Friday Night Knitting Club series, Knit the Season. As a knitter, I enjoyed the first book in the series, Friday Night Knitting Club while on vacation a few years ago. I loved her second novel (unrelated to this series) Comfort Food.
Knit the Season is focused on Dakota this time, which is nice. If you have read the other two books in the series, you do get caught up with several of the characters and what they have been ...more
Knit the Season is focused on Dakota this time, which is nice. If you have read the other two books in the series, you do get caught up with several of the characters and what they have been ...more
I'm reminded of blockbuster movie sequels that have no substance because the creators know their audience will come see it no matter what.
Jacobs is a talented writer with a unique ability to create flawed characters that are so engaging and real. That said - this book was a huge disappointment. Full of preachy cliches about family love, complete with the now-college-aged Dakota spouting off sage advice out of nowhere (the cause of much eye-rolling and skimming on my part) - every si...more
Jacobs is a talented writer with a unique ability to create flawed characters that are so engaging and real. That said - this book was a huge disappointment. Full of preachy cliches about family love, complete with the now-college-aged Dakota spouting off sage advice out of nowhere (the cause of much eye-rolling and skimming on my part) - every si...more
This review contains spoilers for the previous books in the series.
Tis the season to knit and be merry! The Friday Night Knitting Club are back for this festive third instalment. Dakota Walker, the co-owner of the Walker and Daughter knitting store, is now twenty and in school working towards becoming a pastry chef. Christmas is the time for family to come together, but Dakota is offered a prestigious Christmas internship that would mean missing family Christmas in Scotland. While A...more
Tis the season to knit and be merry! The Friday Night Knitting Club are back for this festive third instalment. Dakota Walker, the co-owner of the Walker and Daughter knitting store, is now twenty and in school working towards becoming a pastry chef. Christmas is the time for family to come together, but Dakota is offered a prestigious Christmas internship that would mean missing family Christmas in Scotland. While A...more
I loved the Friday Night Knitting Club and Knit Two by Jacobs so I was looking forward to reading this book. Plus, you have to read at least one holiday like book during the holidays. I have to admit that while I enjoyed this book, it didn't measure up to the first books. I did enjoy reading the snippets of Georgia's life and also seeing this character from the points of view of her family which is something that hasn't been done yet. I also love all the wonderful characters in this series. I fo...more
This one was a little slow for me. I liked the first 2 books better than this one. I do, however, have some moments of the book that I liked. Possible spoilers...
I really liked how the author added the "Georgia" thoughts in the book. I thought that was an interesting way of keeping Georgia alive.
This line was thought provoking for me..."There's something magical about the way you can get to know someone better even after they're gone." I never really...more
I really liked how the author added the "Georgia" thoughts in the book. I thought that was an interesting way of keeping Georgia alive.
This line was thought provoking for me..."There's something magical about the way you can get to know someone better even after they're gone." I never really...more
A 3.5 star review.
Definitely the weakest of the lot, but it's a sweet Christmas story (starting just before Thanksgiving and ending just after New Years Eve) and a quick read, so perfect for a lazy Christmas Day morning.
It's linked quite closely to "Knit Two" and ties up a lot of the loose ends from that book. Some elements were a tad too good to be true, but "it's Christmas", and I can completely understand wanting an extra doze of 'feel good' for that.
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Definitely the weakest of the lot, but it's a sweet Christmas story (starting just before Thanksgiving and ending just after New Years Eve) and a quick read, so perfect for a lazy Christmas Day morning.
It's linked quite closely to "Knit Two" and ties up a lot of the loose ends from that book. Some elements were a tad too good to be true, but "it's Christmas", and I can completely understand wanting an extra doze of 'feel good' for that.
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Thanks to Jaye for sending this third book in the series. It's lighter and shorter than the first two - Reminds me more of the Elm Creek novels. She doesn't really seem to get into developing the secondary characters. They are ostensibly trying to give the daughter more information about her dead mother. This is done through a series of flashbacks. Each flashback seems to have a different point of view, so the narrative is not really coherent. However, she does tie up some loose ends, so i...mor...more
This was my least favorite of the Friday Night Knitting Club series. Maybe I'm just being a scrooge. Maybe I would have enjoyed it more if I had read it around the holidays, during which the story takes place. But I'm a little over Georgia being such a BIG part of the novel when she died at the end of the first novel. I realize this group of friends and family came together because of Georgia. And in this book they are all moving on to the next chapter of their lives. But it's time to let her re...more
I'm not totally enamored by Kate Jacobs' "Friday Night Knitting Club" series, but I do like the main character, Dakota, and am somewhat curious to see what becomes of her. The other members of the "club"--not so much. Jacobs tries to make the stories too pithy (for want of a better word). I enjoy Debbie Macomber's Blossom Street in Seattle series ("The Shop on Blossom Street", "A Good Yarn", etc.) more than Jacobs' set in NYC stories. Jacobs seems to b...more
(3 1/2 stars) I would define this book as chicklit. Not a bad thing, just definitely designed for women to read. I shed a tear or two while reading this book, mostly because I remembered the story from the first two books in the series. I thought it was touching to flashback to moments prior to the other two books which showed the characters. However, there was not a lot of character development and the story itself was not really deep, nor did it really come to any finalizations. In fact, ...more
I hovered over 2 stars and 3 stars. I gave it three because I liked the whole series a lot, and really like the concept of female friends who stick together and grow together. It was nice to take a peak back into the lives of the knitting club members one more time. But this one seemed to be written in a hurry to get to press to capitalize on the Christmas Season. If I hadn't read the first two books and developed a fondness for the women then, I would have had to give this one two stars.
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Another in the "Friday Night Knitting Club" series. I can almost lay out the next 5-7 books in this series...and I will not be reading them.
This was another disappointment, but since I got so mad over "Knit Two" I had much lower expectations for this book, and by golly the book lived up to them.
It is time to let this group go. The lament over the death of Georgia continues, and no one is the better for it. The saga around the other romances in the book got to the...more
This was another disappointment, but since I got so mad over "Knit Two" I had much lower expectations for this book, and by golly the book lived up to them.
It is time to let this group go. The lament over the death of Georgia continues, and no one is the better for it. The saga around the other romances in the book got to the...more
I have to say that, considering how much I liked Friday Night Knitting Club, I'm pretty disappointed with not only the plot (or should I say lack of plot) in this third book in the series, but with the wooden dialogue and two-dimensional characters.
I read the whole thing, but it took over a week because I was just not getting caught up in the characters like I had before. It was kind of like watching the re-make of 'The Women', in that you expect great things because you like all the...more
I read the whole thing, but it took over a week because I was just not getting caught up in the characters like I had before. It was kind of like watching the re-make of 'The Women', in that you expect great things because you like all the...more
A third installment of the knitting club books. Another story of how women joining together to talk and help each other can really make things happen. The women meet through knitting, but it doesn't have to be knitting. I once was in a quilting group of women, and I had some of the best times in my life. I throughly enjoyed my conversations with the women there and valued their ideas and help. It certainly taught me the value of friends. In this edition, the women make many changes in their...more
This was my first time listening to a book-on-cd from the library! The story was fairly good (really good in parts, totally corny in other parts), but overall I enjoyed it. However, what KILLED me was the voices that the narrator used for different characters. Usually, when I listen to an audiobook online, I just wait it out and get used to them, but these were SO abrasive (the main character is 19 or so, but she is TOTALLY WHINY at parts- which is not how I would have interpreted the dialogue),...more
The third in the series of the Friday Night Knitting Club novels - a quick, light, easy read (especially appropriate for the Christmas season). This book includes all of the same characters as the other two books do, and continues their stories and tells us how they have changed and/or moved on since the last book. A bit heavy-handed and laden with flashbacks and remembering, but also inspiring as we see how the main character, the late Georgia Walker brought all the other characters together,...more
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Date: 2011
Format: paperback
Why I'm reading this book: I've read all the other books in Kate Jacobs' "A Friday Night Knitting Club Novel" series.
I've read a few chapters, and so far I'm not quite excited. The cover is endearing - all sorts of knitted cupcakes. But she used a ploy of "role-call" at the knitting club to introduce all the recurring characters. And it appears that the Friday Night Knitting Club is now closed to new members. No small business woul...more
Format: paperback
Why I'm reading this book: I've read all the other books in Kate Jacobs' "A Friday Night Knitting Club Novel" series.
I've read a few chapters, and so far I'm not quite excited. The cover is endearing - all sorts of knitted cupcakes. But she used a ploy of "role-call" at the knitting club to introduce all the recurring characters. And it appears that the Friday Night Knitting Club is now closed to new members. No small business woul...more
I loved the first two books in the Friday Night Knitting Club series by Kate Jacobs, so I was excited to read the third installment and catch up with familiar characters. Unfortunately, this book was a let-down. I found myself feeling frustrated with the characters and scoffing at what I was reading. It just felt so forced! It was like a handful of Lifetime movies were mashed together and squeezed into this book, or maybe Jacobs was trying to cram as many moral/life lessons into the story as pos...more
Surprisingly, I enjoyed this holiday novel in the series much more than the second, Knit Two. There was more substance and depth to the story with the brief memories of Georgia as told by her friends and family plus a few passages of Georgia's memories. It was a very tender story, not lacking in the usual brashness of the group and their interactions with each other, but full of emotion and insight to human relations. I really enjoyed the story, the changes in the characters' dreams and the g...more
This is the third in the knitting club series about the a group of women of various ages. This is a poignant lesson in the everyday events that celebrate life. The joys and sorrows that invade every person's life. This is centered on the Christmas season-a season of hope and forgiveness. Two of the women, one in her eighties and and in her fifties, are to marry and to begin a new life. Another woman, throws caution to the wind, to discover if she can take the fashion world of Paris by storm...more
I love this series. I hope there are more books to follow. Every time I read one of these books, I wish it never ends because I feel like these characters are my friends and I don't ever want to say goodbye to them. Jacobs sucks you in and winds you into the memories and stories that the characters tell. You feel their pain, their anxiety as they try to hurdle the newest obstacles in their way. These books are also filled with so much simple wisdom. These books inspire me to look at my life diff...more
The Friday Night Knitting Club is a somewhat light, fun read, not epic literature by any means but relaxing and enjoyable. Knit the Season, despite it's themes of dealing when life overwhelms you with change and balancing priorities, follows that tradition and was a worthy follow up to the first two installments of the series. While some of the regular Friday Night Knitters get somewhat shorted (KC, Lucie, and my favorite character, Darwin) in this installment, it was nice to see how the author...more
Good book following the "mindset" of Dakota Walker as she continues on after her mother has died. She is surrounded by the women who supported her mother emotionally through her burgeoning business and then through her illness and death. These women are all flawed by real in their own way - we've met each of them somewhere in our lives! This installment of the Friday Night Knitting Club isn't the best but it does carry the characters one step further along. I'm curious if there wil...more
In this third Friday Night Knitting Club novel, Kate Jacobs has tied up a lot of loose ends and several members of the club are moving away from New York. However, she has also opened some new doors, and it will be interesting to see whether she adds a fourth book to the series. Georgia’s daughter, Dakota, is the main character here, attending chef’s school, taking part in running the yarn shop, and helping to plan Anita and Marty’s oft-postponed wedding, which is supposed to take place on New...more
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