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Book Review of The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society

The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society
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Fans of Debbie Macomber will probably enjoy this, but readers looking for complex characters and an original storyline should look elsewhere.

There's a sub-genre of women's fiction in which a group of characters meet on a regular basis to discuss books, or knit, or sew, or quilt, and whose friendships then resolve problems being faced by one (or usually more) of the attendees. Beth Pattillo has moshed two of them together to create the Sweetgum Knit Lit Society, which both reads books AND knits items thematically related to the book-of-the-month.

There's a sullen teen, a foundering marriage, and not one but two members pining for men married to someone else, and all of them manage to resolve the issues and start on the road to Happily Ever After by the end of the book.