Helpful Score: 5
I'm rather at a loss for my opinion of this book. I have read beyond dozens of rave reviews for this story telling of how it is a fun, cozy, and light read for lovers of Christian fiction. I really just do not get that from it at all. I read Christian fiction for an uplifting escape from the whoas of my current day. This was a story that made it feel like I've never experienced anything bad in my life ever before, especially nothing in comparison to the characters of this story. It in a way reminded me of my split feelings toward Tracie Peterson's A Slender Thread. The whole book was a continuous detailed account of what was wrong in each individual's life and I just felt more and more depressed with reading about them. Once I had gone so far and was not sure if I could continue the book ends with a good three chapters giving a solution to most of all the issues at hand.
I know that life can be difficult at times. I know that I personally suffer from a severe depression with no cause of rhyme nor reason. The problems in their lives are real life issues that cannot just be wished a way. I do not see any benefit from reading this story, where it seems to be mope mope mope until there is a surprise solution for most things. Many times in life the solutions never come along, especially not all at the same time and as easily as they did in this story. Sometimes miracles do happen and greatly so. I just felt more depressed than uplifted with this story, so I just cannot really recommend it. But many have read it and loved it. So please make your own judgment of it.
I know that life can be difficult at times. I know that I personally suffer from a severe depression with no cause of rhyme nor reason. The problems in their lives are real life issues that cannot just be wished a way. I do not see any benefit from reading this story, where it seems to be mope mope mope until there is a surprise solution for most things. Many times in life the solutions never come along, especially not all at the same time and as easily as they did in this story. Sometimes miracles do happen and greatly so. I just felt more depressed than uplifted with this story, so I just cannot really recommend it. But many have read it and loved it. So please make your own judgment of it.
Helpful Score: 5
I was surprised to actually like this book more than I felt I would. Sometimes life is messy and doesn't work out neatly by the last chapter and that is the way this book shows life. I hope to see more of the characters introduced in this book.
Helpful Score: 2
The members of Sweetgum Tennessee's Knit Lit Society are going through some big problems: Merry is afraid that her husband Jeff will be less than thrilled about her unexpected pregnancy; Eugenia is worried about being forced out of her job at the town's library; and Esther can't convince her husband to get much-needed heart bypass surgery. The group of women meet once a month to discuss a book that they've read and share a knitting project related to the book. I enjoyed the book and the characters, although for me the story line was a bit predictable. The characters were great, though, and I'm looking forward to reading more about these women.
Helpful Score: 1
Very enjoyable read.
Helpful Score: 1
Quick, sweet, satisfying tale with a lot of wisdom knit into the characters and plot.
Fans of Debbie Macomber will probably enjoy this, but readers looking for complex characters and an original storyline should look elsewhere.
There's a sub-genre of women's fiction in which a group of characters meet on a regular basis to discuss books, or knit, or sew, or quilt, and whose friendships then resolve problems being faced by one (or usually more) of the attendees. Beth Pattillo has moshed two of them together to create the Sweetgum Knit Lit Society, which both reads books AND knits items thematically related to the book-of-the-month.
There's a sullen teen, a foundering marriage, and not one but two members pining for men married to someone else, and all of them manage to resolve the issues and start on the road to Happily Ever After by the end of the book.
There's a sub-genre of women's fiction in which a group of characters meet on a regular basis to discuss books, or knit, or sew, or quilt, and whose friendships then resolve problems being faced by one (or usually more) of the attendees. Beth Pattillo has moshed two of them together to create the Sweetgum Knit Lit Society, which both reads books AND knits items thematically related to the book-of-the-month.
There's a sullen teen, a foundering marriage, and not one but two members pining for men married to someone else, and all of them manage to resolve the issues and start on the road to Happily Ever After by the end of the book.
