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Mira (2006), 400 pages
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The highly anticipated sequel to "The Shop on Blossom Street." Once again, a disparate group of women find friendship and comfort as they learn the age-old craft of knitting.
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LibraryThing member wyvernfriend
Following on from "A Shop on Blossom Street" this is the next installment in this story of lives circling around a yarn shop.
Adding in a new cast of characters the main three here are Elise Beaumont, a retired Librarian, currently living with her daughter while she's trying to get her money back
Bethanne Hamlin, divorced, trying to find a role in life away from marriage and bringing up children and finding it very hard, particularly as her daughter is acting up.
Courtney Pulanski is a depressed and slightly overweight teenager who has to move to live with her granmother to finish up high school as her father is away in Brazil.
And of course we have Lydia, the shop owner, still trying to work out her relationship with Brad and her sister, whose husband has lost his job.
Cosy, interesting but ultimately occasionally a little too safe. Readable but not remarkable
Adding in a new cast of characters the main three here are Elise Beaumont, a retired Librarian, currently living with her daughter while she's trying to get her money back
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from a failed housing investment. Her ex-husband is back, can she trust him this time?Bethanne Hamlin, divorced, trying to find a role in life away from marriage and bringing up children and finding it very hard, particularly as her daughter is acting up.
Courtney Pulanski is a depressed and slightly overweight teenager who has to move to live with her granmother to finish up high school as her father is away in Brazil.
And of course we have Lydia, the shop owner, still trying to work out her relationship with Brad and her sister, whose husband has lost his job.
Cosy, interesting but ultimately occasionally a little too safe. Readable but not remarkable
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LibraryThing member Brandie
A good light read. One of those pretty predictable books IMO, but I still enjoyed it. It was just what I needed when I was taking breaks from unpacking, organizing, cleaning, schooling, etc, etc. I didn't realize there is a book by Macomber that come before it so I will have to go and read The Shop
I did really enjoy all the characters though - kind of like in the quilting series I read - you fall in love with the characters, want the best for them, and still want to see how their lives continued on after the book is over. And it also makes me want to visit that yarn shop, knit with these woman and share my life with them - a book that leaves you with a good feeling when you are done for sure!
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On Blossom Street soon I think!I did really enjoy all the characters though - kind of like in the quilting series I read - you fall in love with the characters, want the best for them, and still want to see how their lives continued on after the book is over. And it also makes me want to visit that yarn shop, knit with these woman and share my life with them - a book that leaves you with a good feeling when you are done for sure!
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LibraryThing member coopermom71
#2 in the knitting series. Return to the shop on Blossom Street.
LibraryThing member litelady-ajh
I liked it, happy ending (of course), I need to read happy endings once in a while.
LibraryThing member koalamom
A wonderful, uplifting tale, i.e., a good yarn, about Lydia Hoffman who give a class in her yarn shop on knitting socks. The three who sign up are beginners and also women with seemingly insurmountable problems in their lives, as does Lydia herself. Resolutions don't come easy but they survive and
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sometimes not in the way they thought they wanted at the beginning. Show Less
LibraryThing member ovistine
The second book in the "Blossom Street" knitting series by Debbie Macomber, this one features three new women in addition to linchpin Lydia Hoffman. The story's more cross-generational than the last, with a senior in high school, a newly-divorced mom of two teenagers, and a grandmother in the mix.
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We also get some more development when it comes to Lydia, her relationship with Brad, and her developing closeness to her sister Margaret. Definitely worth taking a second trip to Blossom Street, and I wouldn't say reading the first book is absolutely necessary to enjoying the second. Show Less
LibraryThing member readabook66
Warm and cozy, makes me want to knit socks
June 2007
June 2007
LibraryThing member drebbles
Cancer survivor Lydia Hoffman's shop "A Good Yarn" has thrived since she opened it a year ago. She decides to teach a class on how to knit socks and three people sign up for it.
Elise Beaumont is a retired librarian who has recently suffered a financial setback and was forced to move in with her
Bethanne Hamlin is also divorced, although much more recently. The divorce came out of the blue; she had no idea that her marriage was in trouble until her husband told her on Valentine's Day that he was leaving her for a younger woman. The divorce left Bethanne demoralized; she needs to find a job but is convinced she's a failure. Her teenage children, Annie and Andrew, are also affected by the divorce, especially Annie who keeps acting out in her pain.
Courtney Pulanski is also a troubled teenager. Her mother died in a car accident four years ago and Courtney is still mourning her death. With two kids in college and Courtney a senior in high school, her father needs money and takes a well-paying job building bridges in Brazil and Courtney is forced to move in with her grandmother and spend her senior year in a strange high school. Courtney is overweight and self-conscious about her looks and is convinced that her senior year will be miserable.
Lydia has problems of her own; her sister Margaret has financial worries and may lose her house and is miserable to be around. Lydia is in love with UPS driver Brad, but he will soon deliver devastating news that threatens their relationship. Her mother's health is deteriorating and Lydia worries about her well being. All four women will find more comfort than they could possibly believe while learning how to knit socks.
"A Good Yarn" is a great book for someone looking for a sweet, unchallenging read. The characters are all likable and believable, except perhaps for Maverick who is a bit of a cliché. Debbie Macomber is a good writer who makes you care for her characters in such a way that you will want to keep reading the book to find out what happens to each woman, yet you'll be sorry when the book is finally over. I do wish she had shown Courtney at her senior prom, but that's a minor quibble. Macomber ties everything up neatly at the end (and is to be commended for not having each woman find happiness only through a romantic relationship) and I loved the fairy godfather touch at the end.
This is a perfect book for reading at the beach or on a rainy day.
Elise Beaumont is a retired librarian who has recently suffered a financial setback and was forced to move in with her
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daughter's family. Elise has been divorced for many years but never stopped loving her ex-husband, "Maverick", whose gambling ruined their marriage. Elise is not pleased when she finds out that Maverick is coming to stay at their daughter's house - she's afraid of getting hurt again. Bethanne Hamlin is also divorced, although much more recently. The divorce came out of the blue; she had no idea that her marriage was in trouble until her husband told her on Valentine's Day that he was leaving her for a younger woman. The divorce left Bethanne demoralized; she needs to find a job but is convinced she's a failure. Her teenage children, Annie and Andrew, are also affected by the divorce, especially Annie who keeps acting out in her pain.
Courtney Pulanski is also a troubled teenager. Her mother died in a car accident four years ago and Courtney is still mourning her death. With two kids in college and Courtney a senior in high school, her father needs money and takes a well-paying job building bridges in Brazil and Courtney is forced to move in with her grandmother and spend her senior year in a strange high school. Courtney is overweight and self-conscious about her looks and is convinced that her senior year will be miserable.
Lydia has problems of her own; her sister Margaret has financial worries and may lose her house and is miserable to be around. Lydia is in love with UPS driver Brad, but he will soon deliver devastating news that threatens their relationship. Her mother's health is deteriorating and Lydia worries about her well being. All four women will find more comfort than they could possibly believe while learning how to knit socks.
"A Good Yarn" is a great book for someone looking for a sweet, unchallenging read. The characters are all likable and believable, except perhaps for Maverick who is a bit of a cliché. Debbie Macomber is a good writer who makes you care for her characters in such a way that you will want to keep reading the book to find out what happens to each woman, yet you'll be sorry when the book is finally over. I do wish she had shown Courtney at her senior prom, but that's a minor quibble. Macomber ties everything up neatly at the end (and is to be commended for not having each woman find happiness only through a romantic relationship) and I loved the fairy godfather touch at the end.
This is a perfect book for reading at the beach or on a rainy day.
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LibraryThing member wolffamily
Light reading, highlights the good in people - Ann
LibraryThing member kerrycarter76
Just a warm and touching Story.
I have read Debbie Macomber's "The Shop on Blossom Street" and I thought that book was just a wonderful story. Again the author didn't disappoint me with this delightful tale "A Good Yarn". The story continues with the shop in Seattle that was opened by Lydia
Overall, this is a special, warm and touching story that I highly recommend. Bye.
I have read Debbie Macomber's "The Shop on Blossom Street" and I thought that book was just a wonderful story. Again the author didn't disappoint me with this delightful tale "A Good Yarn". The story continues with the shop in Seattle that was opened by Lydia
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Hoffman, a cancer survivor. A new knitting class is created this time the project is knitting socks. New ladies appear in the class which I enjoyed their characters. Overall, this is a special, warm and touching story that I highly recommend. Bye.
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LibraryThing member jolzyn
This is the second book in the Blossom Street Series and in this book, although the author introduced three new characters; Bethane, Elise and Courtney and the plot of this book mainly evolved around them and the main character of the whole series; Lydia. I like that albeit the story has move on to
This book deals with the failure in marriage; in both Bethane and Elise's case while teenagers' issues in Courtney's story. All three of them, who does not know each other initially, found solace with each other's presence and helping each other to overcome their personal issues. I m particular feel sorry for Lydia at the beginning of the book, where Brad (who is the boyfriend) decided to called off their relationship in order to give his earlier marriage a chance and at the same time have to deal with her sister' personal problem as well as her mother's health issue.
As usual, Debbie Macomber never failed to play the emotion of the reader, and i did shed a tear or two when Elise, who is unable to forgive her husband found out that he is terminally ill and that he have just a year to live. I can feel the sadness and regret in Elise by the author's writing. Overall, i enjoyed this book and will definitely move on the third book in the series very soon!
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the 3 main characters, the author have also provide glimpses on the 3 characters from the previous book as well.This book deals with the failure in marriage; in both Bethane and Elise's case while teenagers' issues in Courtney's story. All three of them, who does not know each other initially, found solace with each other's presence and helping each other to overcome their personal issues. I m particular feel sorry for Lydia at the beginning of the book, where Brad (who is the boyfriend) decided to called off their relationship in order to give his earlier marriage a chance and at the same time have to deal with her sister' personal problem as well as her mother's health issue.
As usual, Debbie Macomber never failed to play the emotion of the reader, and i did shed a tear or two when Elise, who is unable to forgive her husband found out that he is terminally ill and that he have just a year to live. I can feel the sadness and regret in Elise by the author's writing. Overall, i enjoyed this book and will definitely move on the third book in the series very soon!
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LibraryThing member lexxa83
I liked this book so much more than the previous book in the series, although I am not sure why. I suppose because it developed the central characters and the yarn shop as well as brought in new characters. I was hesitant to read the remaining books in the series since the first book was just
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so-so, but I am glad that I continued as this one, and the next that I have just begun have been wonderful. Show Less
LibraryThing member jessicariddoch
sunday afternoon special. this is the story of several women woven togeter throught their attendance at a class to knit socks. the sory was easy to read and entirly belivable, nothing so major happened as would be reported in even the local press but it was mojor in the lives of these women. I
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LibraryThing member wareagle78
Wonderful story about a woman and her yarn shop, plus her customers and neighbors. Lovely.
LibraryThing member LibraryCin
3.75 stars
Lydia runs a knitting shop in Seattle and has decided to start a class. Three people sign up. Elise is retired and dealing with a class action lawsuit to get back some of the money she paid for a house; in the meantime, she is living with her daughter and her family. Courtney is a
I quite enjoyed this! I read the first in the series a number of years ago, and probably never knew that it was a series and had forgotten about it. I liked the women and was interested to see where things would lead for them (though I have to admit I wasn't necessarily happy with the ending of the book for a couple of them). It was a nice, light read. As an aside, a couple of the main characters from the first book were very minor characters in this one, too. I likely will continue the series.
Lydia runs a knitting shop in Seattle and has decided to start a class. Three people sign up. Elise is retired and dealing with a class action lawsuit to get back some of the money she paid for a house; in the meantime, she is living with her daughter and her family. Courtney is a
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teenager and has moved in with her grandmother for her senior year of high school; she knows no one and wants to lose weight before school starts in the fall. Bethanne has just discovered her husband has been cheating for two years and he is leaving her with her two teenage children to raise on her own; she has no idea how to support herself, as she hasn't worked outside the home in almost 20 years.I quite enjoyed this! I read the first in the series a number of years ago, and probably never knew that it was a series and had forgotten about it. I liked the women and was interested to see where things would lead for them (though I have to admit I wasn't necessarily happy with the ending of the book for a couple of them). It was a nice, light read. As an aside, a couple of the main characters from the first book were very minor characters in this one, too. I likely will continue the series.
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LibraryThing member moonshineandrosefire
When we last left Lydia Hoffman, she had just opened her knitting shop - A Good Yarn - on Blossom Street in downtown Seattle. This was her way of celebrating her cancer remission and she offered various knitting classes to those who wanted to learn such a skill. Well, in the year since A Good Yarn
But when Brad's ex-wife suddenly reappears in his life, Lydia is not really sure what to do. She only knows that she loves Brad's son, Cody, very much and that she's beginning to fall in love with his father as well. Lydia is suddenly terribly afraid and unable to fully trust her new found happiness.
Elise Beaumont, a retired librarian, joins one of Lydia's popular knitting classes. Since losing her life savings, Elise has been living with her daughter, Aurora - the only positive legacy from her brief but tumultuous marriage to professional gambler, Marvin 'Maverick' Beaumont. Now she learns that her onetime husband plans to visit, and that Aurora wants a relationship with her father, regardless of Elise's feelings about him or the present situation.
Bethanne Hamlin, like Elise, is facing the fallout from a divorce. However her husband, Grant, left her for another woman - not a deck of cards - and she's still struggling to rebuild and completely reshape her life. She joins the knitting class at her children's urging; determined that this will be her first step in her effort to recover a sense of dignity and hope. Then Bethanne starts her own small business and also meets a man with whom she has something remarkably surprising in common!
Courtney Pulanski is a seriously depressed and overweight teenager. Since her mother's death, she has been staying with her grandmother Vera. Vera is doing her best, trying to help Courtney...help that takes the form of dragging her reluctant granddaughter around to swimming sessions at the local Seniors' Center - and to the knitting class at A Good Yarn. Like so many women, these four find companionship and comfort with each other and in the age-old craft of knitting. Who knew that knitting socks could completely change someone's life?
I must say that I certainly enjoyed reading this book; the story was well-written and very poignant and sentimental. However, while the story was very good, and I'm glad to have read it; I will say that it was just the slightest bit too sugary sweet for my taste. I give A Good Yarn by Debbie Macomber an A! I will definitely read more books in the Blossom Street Series - or perhaps another book by Debbie Macomber - at some point in the future, but I think that I will wait for a while.
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first opened, the little shop has thrived - and so has Lydia. This is due in no small part to Lydia's deep friendships with her first three students - Jacqueline Donovan, Carol Girard and Alix Townsend - and her close relationship with Brad Goetz. But when Brad's ex-wife suddenly reappears in his life, Lydia is not really sure what to do. She only knows that she loves Brad's son, Cody, very much and that she's beginning to fall in love with his father as well. Lydia is suddenly terribly afraid and unable to fully trust her new found happiness.
Elise Beaumont, a retired librarian, joins one of Lydia's popular knitting classes. Since losing her life savings, Elise has been living with her daughter, Aurora - the only positive legacy from her brief but tumultuous marriage to professional gambler, Marvin 'Maverick' Beaumont. Now she learns that her onetime husband plans to visit, and that Aurora wants a relationship with her father, regardless of Elise's feelings about him or the present situation.
Bethanne Hamlin, like Elise, is facing the fallout from a divorce. However her husband, Grant, left her for another woman - not a deck of cards - and she's still struggling to rebuild and completely reshape her life. She joins the knitting class at her children's urging; determined that this will be her first step in her effort to recover a sense of dignity and hope. Then Bethanne starts her own small business and also meets a man with whom she has something remarkably surprising in common!
Courtney Pulanski is a seriously depressed and overweight teenager. Since her mother's death, she has been staying with her grandmother Vera. Vera is doing her best, trying to help Courtney...help that takes the form of dragging her reluctant granddaughter around to swimming sessions at the local Seniors' Center - and to the knitting class at A Good Yarn. Like so many women, these four find companionship and comfort with each other and in the age-old craft of knitting. Who knew that knitting socks could completely change someone's life?
I must say that I certainly enjoyed reading this book; the story was well-written and very poignant and sentimental. However, while the story was very good, and I'm glad to have read it; I will say that it was just the slightest bit too sugary sweet for my taste. I give A Good Yarn by Debbie Macomber an A! I will definitely read more books in the Blossom Street Series - or perhaps another book by Debbie Macomber - at some point in the future, but I think that I will wait for a while.
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LibraryThing member mchwest
Love these books
LibraryThing member soosthemoose
Didn't enjoy this book quite as much as the first one but still enjoyable. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
LibraryThing member KathyBrandt
This is another wonderful book by Debbie Macomber. This is the second book in a series on Blossom Street about the people who live in the area or own some of the store fronts on Blossom Street. Three new members of the knitting class, plus the knitting store owner and her sister are portrayed in
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LibraryThing member melissarecords
Three women -- a retired grandmother, a single mom and a displaced teen gain confidence in themselves and learn how to work together when they meet in a knitting class.
LibraryThing member BookConcierge
Digital audiobook narrated by Linda Emond
This is book two in the Blossom Street series, featuring Lydia Hoffman, owner of “A Good Yarn” in Seattle Washington, and the people who come to her store for knitting classes and form friendships as a result.
It’s a charming, easy read with an
I haven’t read the first book in the series, though I have read other books by Macomber. They are all mind candy, comfort reads. Enjoy!
Linda Emond does a fine job narrating the audiobook. She has a lot of characters to voice and manages to keep them straight.
This is book two in the Blossom Street series, featuring Lydia Hoffman, owner of “A Good Yarn” in Seattle Washington, and the people who come to her store for knitting classes and form friendships as a result.
It’s a charming, easy read with an
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ensemble cast that includes teenagers and seniors, and every age in between. Happy marriages, divorces, dating scenarios, crushes, and disappointments. People struggle with financial ruin, job loss and major health issues. The reader shares their ups and downs, and it ends on a predictably upbeat note. I haven’t read the first book in the series, though I have read other books by Macomber. They are all mind candy, comfort reads. Enjoy!
Linda Emond does a fine job narrating the audiobook. She has a lot of characters to voice and manages to keep them straight.
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Awards
Audie Award (Finalist — Romance — 2006)
Pages
400
ISBN
0778322955 / 9780778322955