Sweetgum Knit Lit Society

This book is about a knitting and literary society in a small town. It is *exactly* the kind of book you would expect from reading that description - sentimental, trite, predictable, etc. However, last week when I was feeling particularly bleurgh I needed the literary equivalent of a McDonald's choc......more

After reading about a father's poignant love for his son in an almost dead world traveling South in The Road and man's extreme hubris of Mother Nature in Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History, I needed a comfort read. And, THE SWEETGUM KNIT LIT SOCIETY fulfilled that n......more

Sometimes life has to unravel before you can knit it together... I was lucky enough to win The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society by Beth Pattillo from a giveaway hosted at Michelle Sutton's blog. So thank you, Michelle, for sending this book to me! I loved every minute of it. In Weekly Geeks #12 fashion, I'm......more

I'm rather at a loss for my opinion of this book. I have read beyond dozens of rave reviews for this story telling of how it is a fun, cozy, and light read for lovers of Christian fiction. I really just do not get that from it at all. I read Christian fiction for an uplifting escape from the whoas o......more

This book was ok. It was pretty predictable, and pretty saccharine-sweet. There's virtually no edge here, no suspense. Nothing keeps you hanging on. The characters are relatively one-note. That said, it wasn't horrible, and I did keep reading to the end. This was my first foray into "knit-lit" and I......more