Emily P. (mizparker) reviewed on 12/16/2008 + 87 more book reviews

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I read this book directly after I read Audrey Niffenegger's "The Time Traveler's Wife", and I thought this book, while I liked the other, was about ten times better. It reminded me a little of Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club", with much less focus on culture and ethnicity and more focus on the unlikely bond between a hodgepodge of women.

Each character is so wonderfully written that you come to love them all and find yourself rooting for them as if you were one of the girls. I teared up in several places in the book (because I'm kind of a sentimental boob) and sobbed at the end. While the focus is not on knitting, per se, it made me wish that I knitted (knat?) Wonderful, highly recommended, although I am not sure how much it would appeal to most men. Women, particularly those over 30, I would imagine, will love it.

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