Knitting and life. They're both about beginnings--and endings. That's why it makes sense for Lydia Goetz, owner of A Good Yarn on Seattle's Blossom...
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Jun 29, 2011
Jintana
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ชอบความเป็นธรรมชาติของเนื้อเรื่องและตัวละคร เป็นเรื่องราวของชีวิตของคนธรรมดาๆ แต่หลากหลาย การดำเนินเรื่องจึงไปเรื่อยๆ ไม่มีอะไรหวือหวาหรือเกินคาด ไม่ต้องมีลุ้นอะไรมากมาย เหมาะสำหรับอ่านเพลินๆ สบาย ๆ
เจ้าของร้านขายไหมพรมเปิดคอร์สชื่อว่า Knit to Quit เพ่ือช่วยให้คนที่ต้องการเลิก/ลด/ละอะไรก็ตามที่อยากเลิกเป็นเหมือนวิธีการบำบัดอย่างหนึ่ง คนที่เข้าร่วมโครงการนี้มี อเล็กซ์ที่เพิ่งแต่งงานและสามีอยากให้เธอเลิกสูบบุหรี่ก่อนถึงจะวางแผนการมีลูก ฟีบี้ที่เพิ่งบอกเลิกกับคู่หมั้นแต่ยังไม่สามารถตัดใจจา More...
เจ้าของร้านขายไหมพรมเปิดคอร์สชื่อว่า Knit to Quit เพ่ือช่วยให้คนที่ต้องการเลิก/ลด/ละอะไรก็ตามที่อยากเลิกเป็นเหมือนวิธีการบำบัดอย่างหนึ่ง คนที่เข้าร่วมโครงการนี้มี อเล็กซ์ที่เพิ่งแต่งงานและสามีอยากให้เธอเลิกสูบบุหรี่ก่อนถึงจะวางแผนการมีลูก ฟีบี้ที่เพิ่งบอกเลิกกับคู่หมั้นแต่ยังไม่สามารถตัดใจจา More...
Jun 15, 2011
Julianna
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It was a bonding book that didn't have much to it. I read it for the Watson Book Club. It wasn't as good as The Friday Night Knit club that I read last year for book club, and not in the same shere as the Joy Luck Club. Everything too neatly tied up in a bow to be believable. Casey,7th grade,(age 12?)whose Mother let her live in boyfriend beat her and her brother(who is in juvie) and has been bounced around from on foster home to another for years gets placed in a minister's home. The minister a
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Sep 15, 2009
Debbie
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As the owner of A Good Yarn, Lydia Goetz knows most of the people that live or work on Blossom Street. It is not surpising that the interest was there for another knitting class. Knit to Quit was just what Phoebe Rylander was looking for, anything that would help her get over the horrible way her ex-fiance has betrayed her trust ... again. As for Alix Turner, she and her husband, Jordan, wanted to start a family, but after all the stress of getting married, Alix had started smoking again. Then t
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Aug 15, 2009
Kathryn
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Aug 12, 2009
Loralee
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Lydia, Margaret, and the other Blossom Street friends are back in the fifth book in this series. Lydia and her husband have finally decided to adopt a baby. As they wait for that phone call, their social worker calls and asks if they can take in a 12 year old girl who needs emergency foster care. "It will only be for two nights--I promise." Lydia and Brad wonder what they have got themselves into.
Alix and her husband, Jordan are eager to start a family. But, there is a More...
Alix and her husband, Jordan are eager to start a family. But, there is a More...
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May 23, 2009
Mary
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Lydia Goetz owns a knitting shop on Blossom Street and decides to start a new knitting class. This one is geared towards people who want to "quit something or someone." Three people sign up: Phoebe, "Hutch", and Alix. Ann Marie Roche turns up again and has some drama turn up surrounding her adopted daughter Ellen. Lydia and Brad have decided to try adoption and end up fostering a child.
This is a book series but you don’t have to start at the first book to understan More...
This is a book series but you don’t have to start at the first book to understan More...
May 07, 2009
Bonnie
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Summer on Blossom Street is part of a wonderful series by Debbie Macomber called the Blossom Street Series. This is book five and I've read them all and they are one of my favorite series. Blossom Street is a friendly neighborhood in Seattle and the series centers on A Good Yarn, a cozy yarn shop owned by Lydia who also teaches many knitting classes. There are other shops along Blossom Street that are featured in the books and they include the French Café, Susannah’s Garden and Blossom Street Bo
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Jan 08, 2011
Becca
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"Summer on Blossom Street" by Debbie Macomber was a must read for me. I love Debbie Macomber and the Blossom Street series is 1 of my 2 favorite series by her. The book revolves around a few key characters. Lydia Goetz owns a yarn shops and always offers fun classes. She is married to a man named Brad and her sister Margaret also works at the yarn shop. Phoebe Rylander was new this book and had just broken up with her fiancee. Bryan "Hutch" Hutchinson is also a new char
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Jan 09, 2012
Sarah
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I didn't think this was the best in the Blossom Street series. I felt that some of the storylines felt a bit contrived and false but it was still lighthearted escapism which sometimes is nice.
Lydia starts a new knitting class called Knit to Quit and we meet the main characters of this story- the people who make up the class
Lydia and Brad decide they want to adopt a baby but get a phone call asking them to take in a 12 year old girl for 2 nights....it doesn't take a geniu More...
Lydia starts a new knitting class called Knit to Quit and we meet the main characters of this story- the people who make up the class
Lydia and Brad decide they want to adopt a baby but get a phone call asking them to take in a 12 year old girl for 2 nights....it doesn't take a geniu More...
Jul 01, 2011
Mary
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I can't decide whether I loved this book, because I swallowed it in 3 hours of 'guilty' down time and had tears running down my face as I finished, or hated it because it was all so easy, perfect and unrealistic.
The 'good guys' are really good and the 'bad guys' have serious character flaws so of course they must be out of the good guys' lives. The 12 year old foster kid becomes completely loveable too easily and she is never really as difficult as I imagine a kid in that situation More...
The 'good guys' are really good and the 'bad guys' have serious character flaws so of course they must be out of the good guys' lives. The 12 year old foster kid becomes completely loveable too easily and she is never really as difficult as I imagine a kid in that situation More...
Apr 12, 2010
Lindsay
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Debbie Macomber has a bunch of series out there, but I'm a fan of her knitting books. I don't really feel that they are very realistic, but sometimes it's nice to read a book that takes place in a perfect world, where everyone ends up happy in the end. In this book, Lydia has another knitting class at her yarn shop A Good Yarn and it follows the going ons in her life and her three students as they knit and learn to get over something, whether it's smoking, an ex-love, or something else. These bo
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Sep 12, 2009
Barbara
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Yet another enjoyable, charming installment in Debbie Macomber's series. A few new characters, and the return to several earlier characters' storylines made it fun. This time the story intersect is a "Knit to Quit" group, gathered to learn or improve their knitting as a "therapy" to help quit some habit or worry in their life. Funny enough, there's only a few actual "group meetings"--the stories just spin out from there and intertwine. Some good stuff, nothing earth
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Jul 20, 2009
Mary
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Oct 17, 2010
Judith
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Summer on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber is the sixth in her series of "knit lit" bestsellers and a big hit with Macomber's fans. A “Knit to Quit”class brings together a smoker who needs to quit before starting a family, a workaholic man with a prosperous family business who needs to avoid stress, and a woman who broke her engagement and needs to avoid her philandering former beau. Predictably, the singles find romance together, but when Lydia heeds an unexpected plea to foster a c
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Aug 10, 2010
melissa
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This is an oddly familiar, comfortable read. I like the way this author mixes new and old characters in this series. We always get to continue with the thread of the old, but it stays fresh with the incorporation of new. For example, Lydia has grown through the series, dating, marrying, having a family, ect. Some authors can write 30 books, and the character is the same in the first and the last. (I’m sure this is called something, I just don’t know what). I like that Macomber can advance the st
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Sep 15, 2009
Christi
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I read the first book a few years ago. I bought it for my mom who is a knitter to read on vacation.
I have not read books #2-4 (I thought this title was the third in the series, not the fifth... oops!)
you don't need to have been along for the ride from the beginning to enjoy this book
the author provides enough background details on the relationships of the characters to make sense of it all
it's a pretty predictable plot - you know from the foreshadowing clues as the More...
I have not read books #2-4 (I thought this title was the third in the series, not the fifth... oops!)
you don't need to have been along for the ride from the beginning to enjoy this book
the author provides enough background details on the relationships of the characters to make sense of it all
it's a pretty predictable plot - you know from the foreshadowing clues as the More...
May 20, 2009
Laura
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I listened to this book on audio cd on my daily hourly commute in my car over the last week and a half and really enjoyed it. Initially, I wasn't sure that I would, because the radio personality, Delilah, narrates the story, but she does a good job.
I am a *very* fast reader, and Debbie Macomber's books can be *very* quick reads. I've read them all in an evening or so. I wasn't sure how listening to one over 8 cds would work out, but it was great.
Terrific story, terri More...
I am a *very* fast reader, and Debbie Macomber's books can be *very* quick reads. I've read them all in an evening or so. I wasn't sure how listening to one over 8 cds would work out, but it was great.
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Mar 29, 2010
Tonya
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Debbie Macomber knows what readers want! In the latest book about our friends on Blossom Street, Lydia has a new group starting. Knit to Quit. Everyone who joins is trying to quit something, whether it be a habit, or maybe even a person.
Each person has their own trial going on, from adoption/foster care, finding love or figuring out life.
This book is the fifth one in the series but able to stand on it's own. However you won't want to miss any of the others!
I More...
Each person has their own trial going on, from adoption/foster care, finding love or figuring out life.
This book is the fifth one in the series but able to stand on it's own. However you won't want to miss any of the others!
I More...
May 10, 2009
Cheryl
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Lydia Goetz, owner of A Good Yarn is back for more fun and adventures. She is joined by some old as well as some new friends. So sit back, relax, and enjoy Summer on Blossom Street.
Phoebe Rylander works as a physical therapist at Madison Avenue Physical Therapy. While out for a walk, she finds herself on Blossom Street and in front of A Good Yarn. She spots in the store window a sign advertising a knitting class called Knit to Quit. Phoebe signs up for the class. The knitting class w More...
Phoebe Rylander works as a physical therapist at Madison Avenue Physical Therapy. While out for a walk, she finds herself on Blossom Street and in front of A Good Yarn. She spots in the store window a sign advertising a knitting class called Knit to Quit. Phoebe signs up for the class. The knitting class w More...
Nov 07, 2010
Kathy
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A book filled with interesting characters, living life in what feels like a small town community (though the setting is Seattle). Multiple characters are going though life-changing experiences... and all get resolved happily. Definitely one of those "feel good" stories. Though nothing in the story surprised me (very predictable in that all dreams came true), I found the characters appealing, and their situations keep me coming back to the story.
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Sep 06, 2010
Jessie
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I just really like this series of books! They are predictable and a bit cliche, but sometimes that is exactly what you need in a book. I love the characters and really get involved in their struggles and their conflicts in their lives. I find myself thinking about them after I have finished the book, like they are close friends and not fictional characters. Debbie Macomber knows how to create characters that we can all relate to and that we can share in their triumphs and defeats. I recommend
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Jul 11, 2009
Sheri
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A delight! Her series of books of the shops on Blossom St. and the owners of the shops and their lives and all the drama that they entail, that's what these stories are. I have enjoyed reading all her books and this one is true to her easy fun writing like all the rest. It's a great place to escape and she doesn't complicate the stories with bad language or unpleasant things. It's for reading pleasure and her stories and characters will make you smile, not stress you out but relax you. It'
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Mar 07, 2011
Anne Hawn
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Lydia Goetz, owner of "A Good Yarn" knitting shop decides to start a novel new knitting group. "Knit to Quit." It doesn't matter what you are quitting, just let knitting get you through it. She doesn't have to wait long for willing customers and new knitters. First there's Phoebe Rylander who wants to end her relationship with a man and Alix Turner who has to quit smoking when she and her husband want to have a baby. Then there's Bryan Hutchinson whose doctor recommends h
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Apr 27, 2011
Mollie *scoutrmom*
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An enjoyable read for fans of the series, otherwise skip it.
This book was merely OK. There is too much carried forward from the earlier books to make this a good stand-alone, but those who follow the series should enjoy it. There are appearances from most of the earlier characters, and some of them have major changes occurring in their lives. It's a bit like a soap opera.
Personally, I found this episode more preachy than the earlier books in the series, with more refer More...
This book was merely OK. There is too much carried forward from the earlier books to make this a good stand-alone, but those who follow the series should enjoy it. There are appearances from most of the earlier characters, and some of them have major changes occurring in their lives. It's a bit like a soap opera.
Personally, I found this episode more preachy than the earlier books in the series, with more refer More...
Jan 11, 2011
Drebbles
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Lydia Goetz, owner of A Good Yarn, is offering a new knitting class - Knit to Quit. She has three students: Phoebe Rylander who is trying to get over her ex-fiancée; Alix Turner who wants to quit smoking in order to try and have a baby; and Bryan "Hutch" Hutchinson who needs to find a way to deal with the stress of running the family business. As Lydia tries to teach them to knit, she also has her problems as she is struggling not only with caring for her aging mother but with being a
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Dec 18, 2010
Millie
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Just finished this one yesterday. A nice switch off from the mysteries I've been reading lately. Enjoyable light read where everyone lives "happily ever after" but with some nice insight into how the various characters deal with the challenges of life. I particularly liked the very good information about the experience of being a child in foster care and foster parenting. I also liked the story line that dealt with breaking away from an abusive relationship.
Jul 15, 2009
Rayni
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I gave this five stars because I really liked it. Goodreads says 5 stars is amazing & it is. I've come to expect "amazing" from Debbie Macomber.
I especially enjoyed the new characters interwoven among the established characters & getting to know the established characters better. I enjoyed the interaction between the younger characters & the older ones.
I really want to make this sampler scarf. It would be fun to do it as a class project as they did in the book.
I especially enjoyed the new characters interwoven among the established characters & getting to know the established characters better. I enjoyed the interaction between the younger characters & the older ones.
I really want to make this sampler scarf. It would be fun to do it as a class project as they did in the book.
Jul 28, 2009
Rebecca
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Typical Debbie McComber book... light, breezy, and easy to read. She didn't backtrack and re-explain everyone's character/background too much in this book like I've found she does a lot sometimes. Especially with her Cedar Cove series. And it's also a NEW book, not a book of her OLD novels -- written and printed before she was wellknown -- and recycled into "new" books and available for $7.99 in your local bookstore.
May 28, 2009
Julie
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Just another fun, easy read Blossom Street book. I really enjoy Debbie Macomber's Blossom Street series and one of these days she might even get me to start knitting again! It was predictable, fun and the characters brainlessly interesting. Quick fun! ... now back to more serious reads... although I sure hope there are more in the Blossom Street series coming in the future. They are definitely Macomber's best.
Nov 10, 2010
MsSmartiePants
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These type of books are my relaxing-before-bedtime reads. They are light, generally positive, and engaging. The protagonists deal with real problems, and things don't always turn out the way we hope.
I love the way the author develops characters throughout each series, allowing me to 'follow' and get to understand each one as they experience life. I'll continue reading her books as long as she's writing them!
I love the way the author develops characters throughout each series, allowing me to 'follow' and get to understand each one as they experience life. I'll continue reading her books as long as she's writing them!
