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The Power of Knitting: Stitching Together Our Lives in a Fractured World by Loretta Napoleoni
jennylachs's review against another edition
Felt completely incoherent and just a bunch of exposition rather than any interesting stories.
The audiobook was also clunky and hard to listen to.
I expected much more.
The audiobook was also clunky and hard to listen to.
I expected much more.
marianne_louise's review
informative
medium-paced
4.0
An interesting history of knitting focussing on especially on the role of women and traditional crafts in economies. The author reflects on how knitting helps mental health and shares her personal struggles. I especially enjoyed the analogy of sorting through a mess of yarns to create neat balls as a way to resolve life's difficulties.
ars410's review
2.0
Some interesting historical info but also a lot of repetition. As a knitter I am happy to read anything to do with knitting but this fell a little flat.
smclauchlan_writes's review
3.0
I really enjoyed a lot of the content of this book, but the delivery was seriously lacking. It kinda felt like a high school essay, and for so many claims made in the book the bibliography was also seriously lacking. Also, whenever she references a generic knitter, she uses she/her pronouns and that ticked me off. Fast read, fun to learn some knitting history, but it felt like a high schooler wrote it.
jasmijnluca's review
2.0
dit was gewoon een memoires over haar leven, waar breien toevallig een rol in speelde
600bars's review
2.0
My mom got this for me which was very loving, as it combines knitting and politics, two of my main interests! The book is lovely with nice thick paper and illustrations. Someone on Twitter said that their YouTube algorithm looks like “if someone with my exact interests had terrible taste” and while I wouldn’t be that harsh here I felt similarly. It just wasn’t rigorous enough on history or politics, and the memoir portions were also very vague. Very much what you would expect the takes of a wealthy white woman NPR commentator to have, where it’s like milquetoast progressive. A woman’s marcher type who is going thru a divorce and is in shambles about losing her vacation home(s) and going on an eat pray love rumspringa.
Really disliked the anecdote about the old lady demanding a discount and the cashier being “unfeeling”. This was presented as the old lady using her voice or whatever. This story was a classic example of white feminism privelging identity over any type of concern for workers lmao that story was bizarre! Karen behavior! I am a cashier and people give sob stories literally all day, you aren’t going to give discounts to anyone who asks. The old woman is not “doing a feminism” by demanding a worker give her a discount that she’s probably not even authorized to give as a non-manager employee. That put me off the rest of the book tbh.
Kinda repetitive, have some political qualms (it doesn’t go in depth enough on basically anything) but a quick read that makes me want to go knit when I’ve been in a knitting rut lately.
Really disliked the anecdote about the old lady demanding a discount and the cashier being “unfeeling”. This was presented as the old lady using her voice or whatever. This story was a classic example of white feminism privelging identity over any type of concern for workers lmao that story was bizarre! Karen behavior! I am a cashier and people give sob stories literally all day, you aren’t going to give discounts to anyone who asks. The old woman is not “doing a feminism” by demanding a worker give her a discount that she’s probably not even authorized to give as a non-manager employee. That put me off the rest of the book tbh.
Kinda repetitive, have some political qualms (it doesn’t go in depth enough on basically anything) but a quick read that makes me want to go knit when I’ve been in a knitting rut lately.