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Knit in Comfort
In this wonderful new novel of friendship and knitting, a woman discovers that secrets can't be kept forever.
Megan Morgan traded the constant mobility of her childhood for a quiet, stable life in Comfort, North Carolina, with a handsome husband, lively children, and a group of longtime friends who've formed a weekly knitting club, Purls Before Wine.
Desperate to escape big-...more
Megan Morgan traded the constant mobility of her childhood for a quiet, stable life in Comfort, North Carolina, with a handsome husband, lively children, and a group of longtime friends who've formed a weekly knitting club, Purls Before Wine.
Desperate to escape big-...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
June 25th 2010
by Avon A
(first published January 1st 2010)
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From My Blog...[return][return]As a knitter I had high hopes for Knit In Comfort by Isabel Sharpe. The novel, and each subsequent chapter, begins with excerpts from Megan Morgan’s great-grandmother Fiona, who lived in the Shetland Isles. The excerpts are brilliant and would make a wonderful book as Fiona’s life interested me, as did her lace making. However Knit In Comfort is about Megan Morgan who is dreadfully unhappy and yet complacent in her unhappiness. Her husband Stanley travels a lot, sh...more
Knit in Comfort was a quick, interesting read.
Elizabeth, a young women from New York, travels to Comfort, North Carolina based on a dream in which she thinks her grandma tells her too. There she meets Megan - a wife and mother from who she rents a room.
Elizabeth views Megan's life as perfect and wonderful and the dream life she wants. However, Elizabeth doesn't realize that Megan, like everyone, is not in fact living a fairy tale and that looks can be deceiving.
But what brings them together - al...more
Elizabeth, a young women from New York, travels to Comfort, North Carolina based on a dream in which she thinks her grandma tells her too. There she meets Megan - a wife and mother from who she rents a room.
Elizabeth views Megan's life as perfect and wonderful and the dream life she wants. However, Elizabeth doesn't realize that Megan, like everyone, is not in fact living a fairy tale and that looks can be deceiving.
But what brings them together - al...more
i had a really hard time getting into this book because it opens with a knitting circle (with the kind of witty name purls before wine), which introduces us to the main character, megan, & a whole bunch of other ladies all at once. i had a really hard time keeping all the characters straight. the characterization was not strong. it wasn't even apparent for a while that megan actually was the main character. i kind of wanted to put the book down & stop reading, & i would have if i was...more
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Megan Morgan is a gifted lace knitter, a talent passed down through three generations of her mother's family. Her great-grandmother, Fiona, lived in Eschaness on Shetland, an island near Scotland. Megan's mother told her many exciting and colorful stories of Fiona when Megan was a child and taught her how to knit lace as Fiona had. Megan always assumed her mother had a vivid imagionation but as she shares the stories with her knitting group, Purls Before Wine, in the cozy town of Comfort, NC, sh...more
I really enjoyed this book. Southern atmosphere, a knitting group of women in their 30s who've known each other most of their lives, and a stranger who stirs things up while searching for a few answers in her own life all make for a good story.
Change is in the humid, fragrant air and I felt like I was right there watching it all start to play out. Isabel Sharpe wrote wonderful dialogue for her characters. I loved the fable that she worked into the novel. It's a story Megan's mother told her whe...more
I enjoyed the side story (told in flash backs) of Fiona and the lacemaking storyline in the modern story. I even tried to google images of Shetland lace.
Characters were to be desired - really didn't like elizabeth poking in others' business. She came off as very gen Y and immature. Megan was a dishrag that I wanted to shake and her "secret" storyline icked me out. Ella reminded me of Samantha from "sex and the city". Maybe this was supposed to be "desperate knitting housewives"?
I was disappoint...more
Characters were to be desired - really didn't like elizabeth poking in others' business. She came off as very gen Y and immature. Megan was a dishrag that I wanted to shake and her "secret" storyline icked me out. Ella reminded me of Samantha from "sex and the city". Maybe this was supposed to be "desperate knitting housewives"?
I was disappoint...more
I admit, being an avid knitter, the title was what drew me in initially. After having checked out the summery and reading a few pages, I decided that I would give this book a shot.
The characters are likeable enough, but have nothing that is unique about them. You have straight-laced Megan, who never wants to rock the boat or ruffle anybody's feathers, and then you have Elizabeth, who suffers a bit from foot-in-mouth syndrome. There are others as well, but again, nothing unique about them. They c...more
The characters are likeable enough, but have nothing that is unique about them. You have straight-laced Megan, who never wants to rock the boat or ruffle anybody's feathers, and then you have Elizabeth, who suffers a bit from foot-in-mouth syndrome. There are others as well, but again, nothing unique about them. They c...more
Isabel Sharpe’s Knit In Comfort, the latest in a string of knitting-centered novels, is a slower-than-molasses look at the disintegration of a marriage, the forging of new friendships, the creation of something beautiful — and I wanted it to work. Really, truly, I did, but something was missing.
What went wrong, really? It’s hard for me to pinpoint what I disliked so much about these people, though that powerful dislike was strong and true. Elizabeth comes across as flighty, disconnected, a young...more
What went wrong, really? It’s hard for me to pinpoint what I disliked so much about these people, though that powerful dislike was strong and true. Elizabeth comes across as flighty, disconnected, a young...more
I had a hard time keeping the characters straight in the beginning because so many are introduced at once. As the plot progresses, it is indeed predictable and not especially climactic. Perhaps that is why I like this book. The characters are decent, especially David (such cute dialogue) and Ella. The story never stressed me out and I felt like I could walk away at any time (as opposed to books that suck so badly that I keep reading with hopes that things will get better). When characters commen...more
This is the story of several women, current and past, who have the skill and training from their mothers and grandmothers, to knit Shetland lace. Requiring very small needles and very fine wool, knitting this lace is an art form passed along from generation to generation.
The current women live in Comfort, North Carolina, a small town which seems to be the perfect place for a woman visitor from New York, in a state of indecision about her love life and her future. Unfortunately, things are not a...more
The current women live in Comfort, North Carolina, a small town which seems to be the perfect place for a woman visitor from New York, in a state of indecision about her love life and her future. Unfortunately, things are not a...more
Wish there was a way to give half stars. I've been switching back and forth between 3 & 4 stars, and decided to leave it at 4 because I wanted to help boost the ratings. This was a book club selection, and not one that I would have read otherwise (just wouldn't be on my radar), so I'm once again grateful to our club for expanding my reading horizons. The story started out slow and disjointed, but by about a third of the way through, it starts to come together and becomes interesting. It's we...more
From the blurb on the back cover:
"Megan has always longed form the comforts of home. But if her dreasm of a perfect life with her husband and children in Comfort, North Carolina, have sometimes come up short, she finds solace every time she -- along with other women of the town --takes up her knitting needles. From her hands comes beautiful creations, made out of the emotions she feels in her heart, and Megan feels like she really belongs. But then change comes to closeknit Comfort when Megan ta...more
"Megan has always longed form the comforts of home. But if her dreasm of a perfect life with her husband and children in Comfort, North Carolina, have sometimes come up short, she finds solace every time she -- along with other women of the town --takes up her knitting needles. From her hands comes beautiful creations, made out of the emotions she feels in her heart, and Megan feels like she really belongs. But then change comes to closeknit Comfort when Megan ta...more
This book showed me a lot of different types of people, and it spurred a newfound interest in lace knitting. I've been a knitter for 11 years now and only recently have I begun fair isle techniques and other defined scandinavian and celtic methods. I didn't care too much for the character development...but the story and insight into the shetland isles is amazing.
Surprisingly good! Expected a light read but enjoyed how the characters evolved. Also the flashbacks to Shetland Islands and info on lace knitting great. Makes me hanker to cast on a lace shawl. Will now backtrack to author's other titles as potential easy summer time reading.
A pleasant read...another typical woman coming into herself since her husband has been cheating on her for years. Cmon now ladies - nobody deserves that!
A lot of interesting parallels in the plotline. I think a few more edits and this could be a great novel.
A lot of interesting parallels in the plotline. I think a few more edits and this could be a great novel.
Group read for Southern Lit Lovers. Surprisingly good. I liked the somewhat parallel stories - present day in Comfort, NC and Shetland Island 1925. Good presentation of the complex dynamics of family and female friendship.
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Just finished this book.....the title is kind of misleading, it is much more than a knitting book...very good story ...maybe a little too tidy of an ending, but a book that shows nothing is ever what it seems.
Sep 07, 2010
Katrina
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
knitters, people who chick-lit
I wasn't sure how I would feel about this book from the beginning...sort of thought it would feel hokey and forced (author is a form Harlequin romance writer) but it surprised me. It really did. Definitely not for everyone but still very good.
I really enjoyed reading this book. I like that has a modern day story that sort of parallels flashbacks to a story from the 1920's. Can't wait to read another one of her books! The book is listed on the book swap and is an uncorrected proof copy.
This book was formulaic at the beginning but became more interesting as it went on. Yes, I could see what was coming early on,but it was still fun. Loved all the knitting talk,even though I am not a lace knitter.
An interesting book, and the lace knitting parts are the best. The complicated "secrets" of the book were sad and uncomfortable to read.
Not bad. The actions and decisions of the two main characters, Megan and Elizabeth, sometimes made me want to slap some sense into them, but at least they showed growth through the story.
A strange story about Shetland Island, and knitting lace, and selkies and marriages in NC. Actually I did like it.
This book was okay, but the plot was pretty implausible. I'm glad I only paid $2 at Big Lots for it.
I really enjoyed this book. It is the first thing I've read by this author, but it won't be the last.
It was a "one Shabbos" read......I've read better and I've read worse.
snooze. Simple story line,unrealistic. Npot my favorite knitting fiction.
The book was kind of a dragging to get into... it was about half way through the book, where there were small 'hints' as to the true drama of the story, that kept me interested and finishing the book.
I had a really hard time to keep track of all the characters and the discussions, where I had to re-read quite a bit and figure out who said what.
The last half of the book was where the real interest of the story came into play.
I am glad that I read it.... I just wish I had read through it faster at...more
I had a really hard time to keep track of all the characters and the discussions, where I had to re-read quite a bit and figure out who said what.
The last half of the book was where the real interest of the story came into play.
I am glad that I read it.... I just wish I had read through it faster at...more
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Isabel Sharpe was not born pen in hand like so many of her fellow authors. After she quit work in 1994 to stay home with her first-born son and nearly went out of her mind, she started writing. Yes, she was the clichéd bored housewife writing romance, but it was either that cliché or seduce the mailman, and her mailman was unattractive. After more than twenty novels for Harlequin, and the exciting...more
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