The Knitting Circle
Apr. 17th, 2007 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snugglekittyThursday, I re-read my old favorite, The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones. I am really, truly, going to re-read the whole series. I have already started The Magicians of Caprona. It's not reading as familiar to me so I don't think I've read it before.
Thursday, I also read the new book The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood. Yeah, that does mean that I read two entire books on Thursday. It was that kind of day. This book is about a woman who takes up knitting after the death of her young daughter, and the people that she meets through the knitting circle that she joins. In this book, everyone has tragedy in their background. I like that about the book - it suggests that everyone has suffered pain and loss, and we just don't usually know what their story is. I liked the way the book described the act of knitting when in despair - it was very familiar to me. This book was a lot darker than I expected - like the traumatized but really honest twin of The Shop on Blossom Street. It stands out from the knitting fiction herd. Three stars.
Thursday, I also read the new book The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood. Yeah, that does mean that I read two entire books on Thursday. It was that kind of day. This book is about a woman who takes up knitting after the death of her young daughter, and the people that she meets through the knitting circle that she joins. In this book, everyone has tragedy in their background. I like that about the book - it suggests that everyone has suffered pain and loss, and we just don't usually know what their story is. I liked the way the book described the act of knitting when in despair - it was very familiar to me. This book was a lot darker than I expected - like the traumatized but really honest twin of The Shop on Blossom Street. It stands out from the knitting fiction herd. Three stars.