Hey! Hey! Welcome to the FOURTH Literary Junkies Link PAR-TAY!! Lesley (By the Porchlight) and I are so excited for this link party to be here again!! Yay!!
So, if you are new to this PAR-TAY, here are the questions that you need to answer in a blog post and link up with us!! 🙂
1. What are you reading right now? Tell us about it.
2. Give us the recipe for a great book.
3. Tell us things you’ve learned from a book recently. Did you learn anything about history? Did you take away a deep & profound realization about the world around you? Or maybe even a beauty tip?
4. What was your favorite book as a child?
So, if you are reading these questions for the very first time (and are just now learning about this fun link party…go write your post and link up!)
Okay, so here are my answers….
1. What are you reading right now? Tell us about it.
I’m reading the sequel to the first Friday Night Knitting Club. I’m not too far into it, but so far so good. I thoroughly enjoyed the first book and so I’m wondering how this one will turn out. Sometimes sequels aren’t as good. We shall see. 😉
Goodreads.com Synopsis: At the Manhattan knitting store founded by Georgia Walker, the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club including Georgia’s daughter Dakota, now a college freshman continue to 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 seventy something Anita, a proposal of marriage from her sweetheart, Marty, that provokes the objections of her grown children. As the clubs 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.
2. Give us the recipe for a great book.
Quick intro to the main characters, characters that have depth, compelling story-line, main character has to solve a problem…with some suspense and drama thrown in. Story gets resolved by the end. (unless it’s a series…then keep on truckin!) My favorite author that grabs me each and every time is Mary Kay Andrews.
3. Tell us things you’ve learned from a book recently. Did you learn anything about history? Did you take away a deep & profound realization about the world around you? Or maybe even a beauty tip?
The most recent book I finished was The American Heiress. I love getting lost in period pieces because history fascinates me. It paints me a picture of a time that I cannot even fathom. (No bathrooms in a house??) LOL It was curious to me that English women were so plain in this particular book. And that Cora and her mother were so extreme in their clothing…being more showy of what their money could buy. It was more as if the English were land rich, but money poor and the American’s in this book, while not necessarily land rich, were extremely money rich across the board. I know it was a piece of fiction, but that was interesting to me.
4. What was your favorite book as a child?
This was my absolute favorite book, that I can recall, as a child. It fascinated me to see a kid be sooo messy! lol I was sort of neat kid. 😉
Okay, now it’s your turn! Link up your post now!! 🙂
The knitting club sounds good. I’ll have to check it out.
The American Heiress was one of the only history books I have actually read 100% through and enjoyed. I got really interested in that time period and in the ways of the world through that book. I was actually kind of shocked at how flashy and showy the English women though the Cash’s were! I’m glad y’all picked it as a book club book!
Hahaha those puffed sleeves in American Heiress sound scary!
I read Knit Two (and Fri Night Knitting Club)! I also have the Xmas book from the series but haven’t read it all because I didn’t actually like Knit Two that much. I hope you have a better experience w/ it.
I thought the same things about The American Heiress. I like reading about that time period but I’m glad for how the times have changed.
I thought the same thing with American Heiress, about the land rich but money poor, and I’ve seen it written that way in a lot of the historical romance books that I read as well. Maybe they just don’t want us to know about it 😉