The Knitting Circle
A Novel

A quick and easy read, but yikes--depressing. Not everybody starts knitting because of tragedy. Some of us just like to do it.......more

Expert Craftsmanship I enjoyed every minute spent reading The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood. Knitting is far more than just a device in this well-crafted tale. It provides the warmth and the intimacy, and is the central focus for a group of people (mostly women) who are in various stages of emotional......more

The protagonist, Mary has lost her five-year-old child to meningitis. The loss is so sudden she doesn’t even have a chance to make peace with her loss. Surviving unfathomable grief and finding the will to live in the world again is the poignant theme of Hood’s novel. It is through knitting that the......more

The Knitting Circle is a semi-autobiographical novel by Ann Hood. She starts the book with a prologue that applies both to her own life and to a character in the book. She says... Daughter, I have a story to tell you. I have wanted to tell it to you for a very long time. But unlike Babar or Eloise o......more

This book would definitely fall under the heading of "chick lit," which is not my cup of tea to begin with, and I'm afraid it did nothing to shake my perceptions of the genre. I found myself getting extremely frustrated with the main character and her refusal to do anything to improve her life, alth......more