Book 'o the month, that was quick!

The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs.

As a knitter, I homed in on this book at the book sale, then never got around to reading it.  I decided that it was very much time to do so. 

The main character, Georgia, is a single mom, who owns a knitting shop, and lives right above it. The story heads out explaining how she somewhat granularly starts a knitting group, almost by accident. 

It then starts introducing the knitters, (and some others), and gives some back story on how she becomes a single mom, and how she starts the shop.

It goes into the stories of the other women's lives (while there are two men in the story, neither happen to be knitters.) The book goes into relationships of some of the knitters, and the men. Love, lust, betrayal, sadness, forgiveness, happiness, contentment... The whole emotional gambit.  

The only tiny, and I do mean tiny, meh I have about it, there are so many characters, at first I was getting confused a bit on who was who. But as the characters changed, and grew, and learned from one another, it really filled out each one, to let them stand and be seen, so to speak. 

They come together as a group after a major sad event, and have formed a community of friendship to work with one another, and to go on.

I will give this book... Very good. (It drifts towards being a romance novel, but has enough other things, and doesn't become the dreaded "how to manual", that I actually enjoyed it.) 

And the book used drawings of yarn balls for chapter pages, and knitting needles for some paragraph separation. There was a page before each chapter explaining knitting, that relates to the chapter, as well. 

Also has a very basic, but cute knitted scarf pattern, and a muffin recipe, related to one of the characters. 

So, I decided on a quick read for the next one, a little different. 

Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl by Terrance Dicks. 

Hey, I like variety...