Knit Two

By: Kate Jacobs

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins

Publisher's summary

Following the beloved number-one New York Times best seller The Friday Night Knitting Club is this charming story of sisterhood.

At the Manhattan knitting store founded by Georgia Walker, the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club - including Georgia’s college-age daughter, Dakota - rely on each other for help, even as they struggle with new challenges: for Catherine, finding love after divorce; for Darwin, the hope for a family; for Lucie, being both a single mom and a caregiver for her elderly mother; and for 70-something Anita, a proposal of marriage from her sweetheart, Marty, that provokes the objections of her grown children.

As the club’s projects - an afghan, baby booties, a wedding coat - are pieced together, so is their understanding of the patterns underlying the stresses and joys of being a mother, wife, daughter, and friend. Because it isn’t the difficulty of the garment that makes you a great knitter: It’s the care and attention you bring to the craft, as well as how you adapt to surprises....

©2008 Kate Jacobs (P)2008 Penguin Audiobooks

Critic reviews

“As comforting, enveloping and warm as a well-crafted afghan." (Publishers Weekly)

“Fans [will] eagerly snuggle in to see how the friends piece together their knitting projects while finding solace in one another’s company.” (People)

“Fans of Debbie Macomber’s Blossom Street series will find much to enjoy here.” (Library Journal)

The narrator forgot the people

The story is fine. Not as good as the first but fine. The issue is that the narrator forgot the voices she used for the characters between the two books. Since I listened to them back to back it was distracting. If I had years to forget, it would have been different I am sure. This was also just a dup of the CD recording which is fine, but they didn't edit it to remove the tags from the cds.

Surprisingly Wonderful!

This audiobook is great ... I am totally wrapped up in the characters and I think any reader/listener would seem themselves in any one, two, or three of them!

I hated the sad stuff, but I guess I get it... I have just finished volume 2 and really, really love these people.

Good second book

I was nervous at first to learn this story continued, but was wonderfully surprised. I can relate to the characters in a completely different way than I did in the first novel. Great follow up, hope to learn more of the club in the future!

loved it!

interesting characters, great topics, good story. Knitting, love, friendship, finding your way. I recommend this series.

Regret Central

The double standard of a strong female front, juxtaposed with endless neurotic second guesses, self recrimination and doubt. it becomes heavy and dull. The storyline is ok, yet forced at times. I spotted the "twist" before it came. James putters off into the ether...the reader gives him and Peri torally wrong accents. All the whining doesn't make it worth it. They could have eased up on the non stop neurotic flow. The author needs to read the Power Of Now and then do an epilogue!!! 😅

A Great Continuation of a Great Story

A great continuation of the first novel. It was interesting to see how the characters progressed after the first novel. A great story

Wonderful book.

I really enjoyed rereading this book, I hope she adds more to the series I’d like to see where Dakota’s story continues.

Not for me.

While I found the first book enjoyable, the sequal to the Friday Night Knitting Club was just a chore.The sigular stories seem too seperate, the charactors are overly whiney and selfih and the middle just gets trashy.I had to stop half way through becasue it had just gotten to be too much.

Really Disappointed

I am a big fan of the Friday Night Knitting Club, and was excited to read/listen to the sequel. I couldn't have been more disappointed. This book failed me both in writing and narration.

I found the narration irritating and the characters annoying. For example, it seemed to me that Dakota's character aged in the book but was read in an excessively whiny voice. I felt very little sympathy for the characters, whose growth over the years seemed minimal.

Truth to tell, I found all of the characters I loved in the first book almost unbearable in this one. It's a shame.

A poorly used credit

I read the first book about the Friday Night Knitting Club and looked forward to hearing the sequel while I did my knitting. It was trite and predictable. My credit could have been better used. The narrator did a good job with the material, however.