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Kate Jacobs' breezy first novel reads like Steel Magnolias set in Manhattan. A single mother named Georgia Walker, abandoned by her hunky urban professional beau, James, is left to raise their daughter, Dakota, alone. To survive, she opens a knitting shop that attracts a circle of women who tenuously become friends in the knitting club. Club makes you yearn for yarn, even if you're not a knitter, with descriptions of colors and textures that make you want to grab some No. 8 needles and start purling. Not all the club members knit, at least not with yarn (if such metaphors are going to upset you, put your needles and this book down immediately). But these babes are going to get through anything — widowhood, single mothering, unemployment, divorce and illness — by using the lessons of knitting as a pattern for life.

Really loved this book, Knit Two, the sequel is being released today. I'm in line...at the library. A must read for anyone who is a mother or wants to be.

Eckhart Tolle presents readers with an honest look at the current state of humanity: He implores us to see and accept that this state, which is based on an erroneous identification with the egoic mind, is one of dangerous insanity.Tolle tells us there is good news, however. There is an alternative to this potentially dire situation. Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. This will involve a radical inner leap from the current egoic consciousness to an entirely new one. In illuminating the nature of this shift in consciousness, Tolle describes in detail how our current ego-based state of consciousness operates. Then gently, and in very practical terms, he leads us into this new consciousness. We will come to experience who we truly are—which is something infinitely greater than anything we currently think we are—and learn to live and breathe freely.

If that put you to sleep, wait til you listen to the book. I actually really liked how it started with how we are attached to material things, and think that if we lose them that it will somehow change our identity, but he has such a smooth voice, that it made me want to go to sleep. Which is not good when you're driving. The topics were interesting, but it was really a book better suited for studying, not leisure.

Pat Foy leads a charmed life. She has a close-knit family, an expensive home, and a satisfying career as a landscape designer. She also reads mystery novels all the time–yet she can’t see what is happening right in front of her eyes, and is astonished when her husband, Frank, is arrested for accounting fraud at LinkAge, the huge telecommunications firm that employs him. “How could anything that boring be illegal?” she wonders. The scandal hits the press and threatens to drain the Foys’ bank account, send Frank to prison, and tear their family apart. Frank claims that fudging the numbers is standard practice in today’s go-go business atmosphere. Everyone does it, or would if he could. Americans love recklessness, he insists. They admire scalawags. Pat does too–at least in novels. And it’s hard for Pat to imagine who has suffered from LinkAge’s bankruptcy. So she decides to search out the victims, and finds more than she bargained for. At first she thinks that all she has to do to make amends is whip out her checkbook. What she doesn’t know is that events have already begun to spin out of control, and that the future holds as many twists and turns as any of the whodunits she has read.

This book wasn't as suspenseful as I had hoped. I felt like reading this book was more of a chore than fun. Dusten actually returned this book to the library before I could finish it. If I happen to pick it up and finish it, I'll let you know.

I am also reading the left behind series. I started it back in July, but the books seem to get lost right before I need them, so I have reverted to the dramatized version created for radio.