Ryan's review
The Knitting Circle: A Novel
by Ann Hood
Ryan's review
The Knitting Circle: A Novel by Ann Hood
Ryan's review
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Very readable, could hardly put it down, and because of my current insomnia, I read it in about 2 days. But this is such an intensely depressing book.
Ann Hood is a fantastic writer and I love other things I have read by her, but this book just felt a bit too much like a (necessary) part of her recovery from grief, rather than the quality of storytelling that I know she's capable of. Knowing that it is semi-autobiographical made the details all the more painful, but also left me disappointed in the obvious structure. This woman just happens to meet individually with each member of her knitting circle per chapter and they just happen to each pour out their own horrific story of grief, which leads to her own eventual confession and recovery. Oh, and there's a mom confession and reconcilliation. It just felt too obvious and too chic-lit like, and the story deserves more. I wish that I had waited and read her memoir of the loss of her daughter instead (Comfort: A Journey Through G...more
Ann Hood is a fantastic writer and I love other things I have read by her, but this book just felt a bit too much like a (necessary) part of her recovery from grief, rather than the quality of storytelling that I know she's capable of. Knowing that it is semi-autobiographical made the details all the more painful, but also left me disappointed in the obvious structure. This woman just happens to meet individually with each member of her knitting circle per chapter and they just happen to each pour out their own horrific story of grief, which leads to her own eventual confession and recovery. Oh, and there's a mom confession and reconcilliation. It just felt too obvious and too chic-lit like, and the story deserves more. I wish that I had waited and read her memoir of the loss of her daughter instead (Comfort: A Journey Through G...more
