Damecatoe's review
The Knitting Circle: A Novel
by Ann Hood
Damecatoe's review
The Knitting Circle: A Novel by Ann Hood
Damecatoe's review
rating:
Consider this the third in a series of books that I wouldn’t suggest reading while pregnant.
The Knitting Circle is about grief more than it’s about yarn. We meet a circle of knitters and over the course of the book, we learn their tragic tales. And they are all tragic. Most deal with the loss of children.
It took me a long time to read the book because I knew every time I picked it up, I was going to read something sad. But it was well-written, albeit grandiose at times. Maybe grandiose isn’t the right term. When learning the back story of each knitter, is it grandiose that one tale involved France, one Italy, one Ireland, one the twin towers and one story that made national headlines (in the book, not Real Life)?
Ann Hood knew where she was coming from because she lost her daughter. She aptly described the grief process that her protagonist went through, but her being, well, not real, made it hard to sympathize at times. “Mary! Get off your duff! You’re losi...more
The Knitting Circle is about grief more than it’s about yarn. We meet a circle of knitters and over the course of the book, we learn their tragic tales. And they are all tragic. Most deal with the loss of children.
It took me a long time to read the book because I knew every time I picked it up, I was going to read something sad. But it was well-written, albeit grandiose at times. Maybe grandiose isn’t the right term. When learning the back story of each knitter, is it grandiose that one tale involved France, one Italy, one Ireland, one the twin towers and one story that made national headlines (in the book, not Real Life)?
Ann Hood knew where she was coming from because she lost her daughter. She aptly described the grief process that her protagonist went through, but her being, well, not real, made it hard to sympathize at times. “Mary! Get off your duff! You’re losi...more
