Friday Night Knitting Club

I'm into a new book, a novel by Kate Jacobs. "Friday Night Knitting Club" published by J.P. Putnam, 2007. It is the author's first novel. The basic story line in about the friendship between some women in New York City whose only connection is the local yarn shop owned by a single mother, Georgia Walker. Georgia has a daughter, Dakota, who figures into the story as a thirteen year old who is just coming into her own as she shares her talents as a cook-entrepreneur. She meets her father for the first time and starts a relationship with him that shakes up Georgia's world. All members of the Friday night knitting club have their own challenges and detours, and together it makes for an interesting book. In addition to reading this for the last few weeks, I'm listening to "Year of Pleasures" by Elizabeth Berg. A widow begins a new life in a new town and cherishes her new life and her old memories. As I listen along I am surprised by the beautiful description or enlightenment, and I want to rush to the printed word and underline the profound parts. Over the years I would find myself copying out favorite parts of books onto 3x5 cards...to savor. That's what I want to do right now. Memorize a special part of the books that states an idea in just the right way, an insight that I never quite heard it put that way. I want to own the book and write notes into the margins and then I'll be onto another book that excites me in quite another way. Ah... the words and how they speak to me. This is why I read...to see life from a new vision, a new perspective, and relate this to my own experience.