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Oct 12, 2011

Booklover rated it:

This was a good read,It is a story of 4 woman who suffer pain and have issues,how they finally accept n find happiness

Carol-She n her husband Doug want to have child but they have infertility problem they have undergone 2 IVF which failed Carol miscarried and now third is scheduled and this is the last chance to conceive if again she miscarries then they will have get emlisted for adoption which might more 4-5 years,in between these her brother Rick wants his ex-wife back but he is a More...

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Oct 01, 2008

Remi rated it:

I will use the same preface I did for the other knitting book I reviewed:
I knit and have been knitting for a long time (well since 2003 or 2004) ....and my projects range from simple to increasingly difficult.....This preface is going somewhere I swear....I started knitting b/c I like being crafty and I like doing something with my hands while watching tv other than snacking. That's it. And its just so damn cool to make my own clothing and such.

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Jul 18, 2008

Rosie rated it:

I checked out The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber from the library because one of the girls in my knitting group is reading the series, and I was really curious about it since I have never read any novels where knitting plays a prominent role. Well, I really thought the story was kind of dumb and predictable. I think I understand why certain readers are into books like this and romances in general, but I don't think they are for me. I will probably read the next three books in the s More...

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Mar 30, 2011

Rachel rated it:

I decided to try this book, because we have tons of Debbie Macomber fans that shop at my bookstore. Something that popular couldn't be all bad, right? Right??

The writing wasn't bad per se, but the characters were two-dimensional and I figured out how everyone's plotline would end about 30 pages into the book. Lydia Hoffman is a two-time cancer survivor who invests her life savings into opening a yarn shop. She offers a beginners class on knitting, with the ultimate goal of making a bab More...

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Dec 22, 2008

Jennifer rated it:

I read this because I knit and will read anything that has to do with knitting. (Obsessed much? Who me?) It is the story of four ~~stereotypes~~ women who have nothing in common but bond in a knitting shop making the same baby blanket for different reasons.

The shops owner is Lydia and she opened the store because she fought Cancer and realized you have to live life while you have it. Jacqueline is the snobby older woman who is judgemental and cold because her marriage is a hollowed out More...

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Jan 15, 2009

Alaine rated it:

What a wonderful story about an eclectic group of women who form an unexpected friendship at a knitting class. It had me smiling and crying (a lot), I slipped easily into the emotion of each woman. Honestly I had left this book sitting on my TBR pile for so long because I thought it was about a knitting shop. I was wrong, the Yarn shop was simply the place that the women met.
This book tells the story of four women and the difficulties each of them are facing in their lives. It reminds you More...

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Aug 26, 2008

Lizzy rated it:

This book followed the lives of four very different women who had only one thing in common - they all attended (or coordinated) a knitting class at a shop on Blossom Street. Each of the stories was interesting enough, in and of itself, but since each chapter changed to a different character's point of view, it had a fairly disjointed feel to it.

I think the novel would have had a greater impact if it had focused more on one individual - or at least for longer at a time on each indivi More...

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Jan 02, 2008

Paulette rated it:

I like to knit....when I can. I like to read...all the time. Debbie Macomber is a great author of good wholesome fun fiction. She incorporates the lives of the women outside of the knitting realm. Topics like family relationships, cancer, self esteem, ect. add to the realism of her characters. Her follow up novel " A Good Yarn" wasn't as impressive as this first book [The Shop on Blossom Street] in her knitting series. I also found she has a companion book each of these titles at craft More...

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Dec 16, 2009

Jess rated it:

So the book only got 4 out 5 stars even though I frequently reread it. It was awesome for a feel good story. It's a romance book, but not a bodice ripper. The women are complex, have issues, and you can see why they made the choices that landed them in the position. The only thing that stopped it from getting 5 stars was that at times it seemed flat. Otherwise, it's a thoroughly good story to read when you want characters that you can enjoy and root for, and it not being all about making out or More...

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Feb 24, 2011

Susan rated it:

"The Shop on Blossom Street" is a feel good novel about how four very different women, going through very different times in their lives, become close friends through unlikely circumstances. Challenges and coincidences bring them together, but their one main thread (pun intended) is the knitting class they attend. The novel is mostly predictable, but even though you know some things are going to happen, the author writes well enough that you are either surprised when they do or caught More...

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Oct 24, 2010

Jessica rated it:

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Jun 05, 2010

Sheila rated it:

Recommended to me by a woman in my knitting group it has taken me a couple of months to actually sit down and read it because I'm not really into the whole baby-theme. (I'm a housewife w/o kids. I think that says it all.) I'm glad I gave it a chance though because I found it to be a quick, easy and enjoyable read after a hectic week. What I liked the most about this book, as compared to something like The Friday Night Knitting Club, was that I didn't feel like I was being forced to like these wo More...

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Feb 16, 2010

Drebbles rated it:

Cancer survivor Lydia Hoffman opens a yarn shop on Blossom Street. In order to attract customers, she decides to hold knitting classes, with a baby blanket being the first project. Three people sign up, all with different reasons for being there. Unhappily married Jacqueline Donovan dislikes her new pregnant daughter-in-law, Tammie Lee, but decides to knit the baby blanket to show her son she is making an effort to accept his new wife. Carol Girard desperately wants a baby, but has been unable t More...

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May 03, 2010

Jennie rated it:

This was Barnes and Noble’s free e-book of the week and I love free e-books so I thought I would try it out. I had never heard of the series or the author before and didn’t even read any reviews before downloading it. That’s what free e-books due to me; I throw caution to the wind! Good reads has this down as a Harlequin book, but it didn’t really feel that way at all. Of course, the last time I read anything near a Harlequin I was in high school so maybe the years have lowered my expectations o More...

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Dec 15, 2009

Val rated it:

This book was recommended to me by a friend of mine in book club. I have to admit that a book about a yarn shop sounded pretty boring, but I trust my friend's taste so I picked it up. It was cute and a nice change from all the vampire romance people have been throwing at me for the last year. (Not that I'm going to stop reading it, just needed a break from teh genre for a while). Anyhow, this is a story about four women who happen to meet in a knitting class in a yarn shop. They are coming More...

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Oct 20, 2008

Jo rated it:

This wasn't at all what I was hoping it would be. I'd hoped for a gentle book based around knitting in the same vein as the Elm Creek Quilts book, but instead found it to be trashy, over-sexualised, and badly written. Had to give up reading it after about 80 pages as I simply couldn't bear it any longer - and I almost never give up on books, especially when I've had to pay to get them. I've only added it here in case I ever forget and decide to try these books again.

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Feb 06, 2012

Mary rated it:

Lydia Hoffman decided to start a knitting shop on Blossom Street. She called it A Good Yarn and it represented her new life free from cancer. The shop offers knitting classes and the first one is "How to Knit a Baby Blanket".

Three people join the class: Jacqueline Donovan is estranged from her husband, doesn't like the woman married to her only son, but is determined to at least pretend she likes her pregnant daughter-in-law by knitting the baby blanket.

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Jan 22, 2012

Nikki rated it:

Sometimes, after reading a long historical novel fraught with disasters or a dark detective tale -- never mind the news of the day -- you just need a light and enjoyable story. In just such a mood I picked up The Shop on Blossom Street, the first of Macomber's series about a Seattle yarn shop. Since my daughters are knitters, my most recent (far too long ago) trip to Seattle included stops in quite a few yarn shops, so I was familiar with this milieu. (I don't knit, but I like to look at all the More...

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Jan 08, 2012

L.D. rated it:

Lydia Hoffman, twice cancer survivor starts a shop called "A Good Yarn." This is her first move towards the future placing her past into perspective. As she begins a Friday Beginner's Knitting Club, three women, in varies stages of their lives attend for reasons of their own. As you continue to read you are drawn into each of the women's lives, where they came from, where they are and how they end up at the end.

I very much enjoyed Macomber's characters and her pr More...

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May 28, 2010

Amy rated it:

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVED THIS BOOK! I know the title may not make it sound interesting, but to me it was. I liked all the characters, and if that yarn store really existed, I would go there. There were some parts that I predicted before they happened, because it was kinda obvious. Like Laurel being pregnant, and the fact that Carol and Doug would end up adopting the baby. I couldn't believe that Laurel managed to keep her pregnancy a secret so long, and worse that she was going to kill the baby after More...

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Jun 20, 2009

Diane rated it:

The Shop on Blossom Street is a first in the Blossom series, and the first book I've ever read (in this case listen to) by this author. I chose this author because I wanted sometime relaxing to listen to in bed. This one hit the spot.

Read by Linda Emond who does a great job with the four characters in this story. Four very different characters become friends while taking a knitting class at (you guessed it) The Shop on Blossom Street. For Lydia, the shop's owner, a two-time cancer su More...

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Dec 08, 2008

Ivete rated it:

I only picked this up because I am a huge knitter, and it pains me that this book sucks as much as it does because it is related to my favorite hobby. But truly, this book is absolutely horrible. Each woman's individual reason for ending up in the knitting class was interesting, but the writing is downright awful. Reading this was like pulling teeth, and I hated myself for even bothering to finish it.

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Dec 23, 2011

Sue rated it:

Lydia Hoffman has had cancer twice and, now in remission, has opened a knitting store out of a desire to share her love for knitting with others. The three women who sign up for her first class (a baby blanket) are as different as can be: Jacqueline's marriage is failing and she doesn't approve of her daughter in law who is now pregnant with Jacqueline's first grandchild. Carol and her husband have longed for a child and are approaching their last attempt at in vitro. Alix is a streetwise More...

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Jan 08, 2011

Felicia rated it:

I liked this book a lot, I don't think it is a book everyone would enjoy but it is exactly what I was in the mood for.

Lydia a 2 time cancer survivor opens a yarn shop and offers knitting lessons. Three very different women join the knitting class for a variety of reasons. Lydia is happy to be alive but desperately missing her father who was her main support through her cancer but died of a heart attack. Lydia has a very strained relationship with her only sister but in the end they More...

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Aug 11, 2009

Kathryn rated it:

Loved this book and can't wait to read somemore by this author. Quick easy read that allowed you to get to know the characters through devoted chapters to each one while seeing how they interact. Lydia opens a yarn shop to symbolize that she is ready to live life rather than let the scare of cancer make her parolized to take chances. She meets some interesting people in her beginners knitting class: Alix, a twenty something, hard lessoned learned girl who works at the video store down the street More...

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Sep 27, 2011

Stacy rated it:

This is the story of four women: Lydia, a cancer survivor who opens a yarn store, and her first three customers/students, Jacqueline, a society matron, Carol, a business woman trying to get pregnant, and wild-child Alix. The book takes us through their lives and how being in a knitting group together changes them.

This was, by far, the most predictable, formulaic book I've ever read. As soon as every woman's story, and those of supporting characters, was laid out, I knew exactly what More...

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Mar 17, 2009

Marika rated it:

When Lydia Hoffman, a cancer patient in remission, opens a small yarn shop on Blossom street in Seattle, she doesn't yet realize that the three women who sign up to take her first knitting class will soon become her closest friends. Jacqueline, a soon-to-be grandmother, decides that knitting a blanket for her new grandchild might be a way to prove to her daughter-in-law that she will be the best grandmother in the world, even if she doesn't approve of her son's pregnant Southern wife. Alix is sc More...

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May 06, 2011

W.B. rated it:

This was a surprisingly good read for me. I'm not much into the fiction scene, but I needed a break from my depressing non-fiction. I picked up this book after I saw an interview of the author on Knitting Today. I was curious to see how she combined her love for knitting and writing in her books. There were so many things that I appreciated about the author--from her ambition to write while raising 4 children, to overcoming dyslexia, to her Christian beliefs that keep her books clean. I really p More...

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Feb 22, 2008

Rosemary rated it:

I loved getting into the lives of five women from all different backgrounds. You can find a little of yourself in all of them. I feel I am a better friend after reading this book. You learn that listening is much more important than talking. I like the modern-day setting--it seem like it could be taking place down the street.

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Dec 26, 2009

Laura rated it:

I suppose I am a bit of a literary snob. I have avoided reading books by this prolific author and others like her precisely because they are on book stands everywhere. I guess what I failed to recognize is the fact that in order for them to be so readily available, they are very competent writers with a large readership. I now understand why Ms.Macomber is so popular with her readers. The shop on Blossom Street is in Seattle, Washington. It's a yarn shop that has been opened by Lydia Hoffma More...

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