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The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs is a book that had been on my reading wishlist for quite some time.  In fact, several ladies in my MOMS Club wanted to read it, so we all held off until we could acquire enough copies from the library to make it book club pick of the month.  So all that hype and anticipation for this book ----  and in my opinion, it was only "okay"

A novel about women's relationships and knitting - of course I didn't expect adventure and suspense!  But I found the plot and characters to be entirely too predictable.  At least they were likeable characters, I will say that.  I did care what happened to them, and I liked the story as a whole.  I got teary-eyed at the places where I was expected to, and was sympathetic with the characters in general.  And when we got together to discuss the book, we found there wasn't much to talk about.  The other ladies in our book club felt more or less the same - it was an okay read, but slow going and predictable.