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Susannah's Garden (Blossom Street #3)
When Susannah Nelson turned eighteen, she said goodbye to her boyfriend, Jake--and never saw him again. She never saw her brother, Doug, again, either. He died unexpectedly that same year.
Now, at fifty, Susannah finds herself regretting the paths not taken. Long married, a mother and a teacher, she "should" be happy. But she feels there's something missing in he
...moreMass Market Paperbound, 394 pages
Published
April 1st 2007
by Mira Books
(first published April 25th 2006)
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I read this book thinking it was a sequel to The Shop on Blossom Street. And Blossom street was only mentioned at the very end of the book. I was hoping for something more like Blossom Street and instead I got a book full of characters that I disliked intensely and a story that only kept me reading to find out the answer to the mystery behind the story. I was glad when it was over and I was disappointed that the characters who deserved it never got their comeuppance and the characters the reader...more
This is a book that you are supposed to read befor "Back on Blossome Street" It isn't part of the series but yet it is. I was a little upset with having to read the whole thing to finelly figure out in the end why I should read it befor the final book in the series. Like I said you don't have to read it but it is a good idea to do it. It helps in the last book so you know the characters. I did like the book I was just trying to figure out how it all went together the whole time I wa...more
TITLE/AUTHOR: SUSANNAH'S GARDEN by Debbie Macomber
RATING: 4.5/B+
GENRE/# OF PGS/PUB DATE: Romance, 347, 2006
TIME/PLACE: Present, Colville, WA
CHARACTERS: Susannah Nelson/50 yr old teacher mother to Chrissie &
daughter to Vivian
COMMENTS: Susannah returns to her hometown to take care of her mother. Since her father's death, her mother's mental & physical health has been going downhill. Going home brings back memories of high school and a her last boyfriend. She's h...more
RATING: 4.5/B+
GENRE/# OF PGS/PUB DATE: Romance, 347, 2006
TIME/PLACE: Present, Colville, WA
CHARACTERS: Susannah Nelson/50 yr old teacher mother to Chrissie &
daughter to Vivian
COMMENTS: Susannah returns to her hometown to take care of her mother. Since her father's death, her mother's mental & physical health has been going downhill. Going home brings back memories of high school and a her last boyfriend. She's h...more
Definitely Old-Married-Lady lit, but as usual for Debbie Macomber, engrossing characters and storylines. Nothing deep here but a good story.
I liked this book also, mainly because it was about a character that I read about in one of her other books. This one was not as fun to read, because the main character seemed to be hung up on finding answers on her old boyfriend even though she we now 50 years old and married for 25 years. It seemed that she was desperated to find out information that she just needed to let go. I did like the ending and how everything did work out between all characters. This author tends to have happy endi...more
This is a romance novel that covers young love, missed love, love in marriage and love after death. Susannah is bored with her life, which although is good, isn’t really happy. Susannah struggles with her college age daughter, her mother, her anger towards her dead father and her sense of missing something in her marriage. Susannah wonders if she married the wrong man and seeks to find her first love in her hometown while getting her mother moved into an assisted living facility with the “hel...more
Debbie Macomber's books never disappoint. EVER. Susannah comes back to her hometown to deal with a mom with failing mental capabilities and a 20 year old daughter that is getting mixed up with the wrong guy.
As always, Debbie focuses more on relationships rather than love and passion. Her books touch your heart, because there's something about everyone's life in Debbie's book.
Susannah is in a rut when she goes home to Corville. She's frustrated with life and maybe a little...more
As always, Debbie focuses more on relationships rather than love and passion. Her books touch your heart, because there's something about everyone's life in Debbie's book.
Susannah is in a rut when she goes home to Corville. She's frustrated with life and maybe a little...more
I've tried to read this book twice, and it keeps calling to, so I tried to read it a third time and finished. It wasn't anything special or life changing. It's about Susannah who comes home to put her elderly mother into a home and then to clean out the house (or so she says, there wasn't a whole lot of cleaning going on). When she gets there she decides to look up her high school boyfriend to see why he stopped writing to her when she was in France many, many years ago. This of course makes her...more
Susannah Nelson is returning to her hometown of Colville, Washington to help her mother Vivian, who is recently widowed and not coping well. While Susannah's main reason for the visit is to help her mother, she has another reason - to reconnect with old friends, especially her high school boyfriend Jake. Even though Susanna is happily married with two children, she can't help wonder how Jake is doing. What she discovers will not only change her marriage but her relationship with her parents (inc...more
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At age 50, Susannah Nelson finds herself regretting the paths she has taken in life...often thinking in "what-ifs". She should be happy, she's been married for quite awhile, is a mother and a teacher but still feels that something is missing, but not sure what.
In addition to her own musings regarding her lifepath, she is also dealing with a temperamental 20 year old daughter (haven't we all been there?!) and an aging mom who recently became a window. During her summer b...more
In addition to her own musings regarding her lifepath, she is also dealing with a temperamental 20 year old daughter (haven't we all been there?!) and an aging mom who recently became a window. During her summer b...more
A journey of self discovery... and of recognizing ones true love... the one who has stood by you for 25 + years.
Susannah - 50 years old, teacher, mother, wife, daughter.... This summer finds her taking a journey backward and forward...
At 17, she was sent abroad to to separate her from Jake... and her brother Doug died in an accident. She never forgave her father for keeping her away from Jake & not returning her for her brother's funeral... and her family was never the s...more
Susannah - 50 years old, teacher, mother, wife, daughter.... This summer finds her taking a journey backward and forward...
At 17, she was sent abroad to to separate her from Jake... and her brother Doug died in an accident. She never forgave her father for keeping her away from Jake & not returning her for her brother's funeral... and her family was never the s...more
There is not much I can write as a review for this book as there were so many twists and turns and surprises at the end I know I would give something away. This book turned out to be some what suspenseful and I couldn't put it down until I had it all figured out.
Susannah is a woman in her 40's who has been married to Joe for 25 wonderful years. Although her life is happy in Seattle her mother is failing in health back in her home town of Colville. After her father's and brother's de...more
Susannah is a woman in her 40's who has been married to Joe for 25 wonderful years. Although her life is happy in Seattle her mother is failing in health back in her home town of Colville. After her father's and brother's de...more
Seldom does so much of a story’s plot develop in a graveyard. This is appropriate in Susannah’s Garden, however, because in this fast-paced story, Susannah does a lot of digging to unearth truth and burying misperceptions to make peace with her past. Legacies, multigenerational family challenges, faithful friendships, razor-edged evils, secrets, and lies twist and turn toward a love-conquers-all ending. This is a thrilling, engaging novel. Any woman could easily identify with the emotions of one...more
This might be a 3.5 star book. It appealed to me on several levels and I enjoyed the different characters and their stories. Having spent a lot of years taking care of old people, I felt empathy for the mom. I understood the daughter in the role of caregiver and related to the difficulty of making changes for a parent who doesn't welcome them. She was also the person stuck in the middle between her mother and her daughter, worried about both at a time when support from the daughter would have be...more
Read slightly out of sequence - it's not a "true" Blossom Street story, but introduces characters who turn up in other, later Blossom Street stories.[return][return]Susannah (this is known as "Susannah's Garden" in the US) is a 50 year old woman, married with two kids, who has just finished another year teaching and is feeling restless and depressed. Her ageing mother is a source of concern, and she travels back to her home town to make some difficult decisions, including sea...more
I think I liked this one the best. Things sometimes change in mid-life, call it a midlife crisis or whatever, but they do. I love the way the author spins her tales and develops her characters in the storyline
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This is the second of two Debbie Macomber audiobooks I listened to recently.
Her books are the only ones that are ever "in stock" in my library's Overdrive program.
Now I know why. Ugh. This book was awful.
The characters were so whiny and ridiculous. Especially Susannah and her spoiled daughter, Chrissie. Oh, I wanted to slap them both.
And the ending! Absurd. I guessed the ending halfway into the book and laughed thinking that couldn't possibly how...more
Her books are the only ones that are ever "in stock" in my library's Overdrive program.
Now I know why. Ugh. This book was awful.
The characters were so whiny and ridiculous. Especially Susannah and her spoiled daughter, Chrissie. Oh, I wanted to slap them both.
And the ending! Absurd. I guessed the ending halfway into the book and laughed thinking that couldn't possibly how...more
I had to take a break from the series I was reading (Libba Bray's Gemma Doyle series was irritating me a bit), so this book was a nice light read to cleanse the palette, as it were. Macomber was recommended as a good, clean writer of Hallmark channel-type stories. And I enjoyed her book in that vein. This one tells the story of a woman who returns to her home-town to put her mother in assisted living, at the same time dealing with unresolved issues concerning her deceased father, a teenage bo...more
Everyone has wondered what happened to people from their past. In Susannah's Garden the main character, Susannah Nelson does more than just wonder.
The story takes Susannah back to her home town to help her mother move into an assisted living facility. While there she learns a great deal about her family and her past.
This was a typical brain candy with a bit of suspense and romance. Nothing to jump up and down about, but still entertaining enough to break up the mono...more
The story takes Susannah back to her home town to help her mother move into an assisted living facility. While there she learns a great deal about her family and her past.
This was a typical brain candy with a bit of suspense and romance. Nothing to jump up and down about, but still entertaining enough to break up the mono...more
While reading: The 3rd in the Blossom Street series, although this book has nothing to do with Blossom Street. At 70% through (on my Kindle) I am just now getting sincerely interested in the story. And that’s only really because I just want to finish it. I have seriously never read a book that I’ve just been so apathetic about before. It’s just blaaaaah. And I’m so not interested in any of the characters and their problems.
Update: The book improved within the last 40%. But that...more
Update: The book improved within the last 40%. But that...more
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While most of Debbie Macomber's books are nice little stories that keep me interested -- this one was just down-right depressing. I didn't like any of the characters. They just seemed so whiney and gutless.
There wasn't much to keep me interested, but I still kept plugging away hoping that it would get better. It never really did. I wanted to shake Susannah's daughter "Chrissy" more than once. Sheesh, how could one character be so whiney and spoiled? Moreover, why wo...more
There wasn't much to keep me interested, but I still kept plugging away hoping that it would get better. It never really did. I wanted to shake Susannah's daughter "Chrissy" more than once. Sheesh, how could one character be so whiney and spoiled? Moreover, why wo...more
No knitting; so wondering how it got in the Blossom Street Series. Good read/light.
Having finished the book, the ending was not exactly what I thought. I understand the thinking behind the author's desire to explain a correlation between Susannah's home life and that of her role now as mother; but felt it could have had a most positive lesson w/o succumbing to the negativity. [don't want to give away the plot].
The last few pages does explain the Blossom Street connecti...more
Having finished the book, the ending was not exactly what I thought. I understand the thinking behind the author's desire to explain a correlation between Susannah's home life and that of her role now as mother; but felt it could have had a most positive lesson w/o succumbing to the negativity. [don't want to give away the plot].
The last few pages does explain the Blossom Street connecti...more
It was a little slow, buy I find all Debbie Macomber books to be a bit slow. The last 1/4 of the book raised the stars from 3 to 4. For those complaining about the mother and the daughter...if you don't like the daughter, I'm thinking maybe you never had a midlife crisis. And the daughter? I know I was a brat at 19, so I related to her 100%. I think it's a lucky person who can say they didn't share any of her characteristics at 19.
My church book club read this in conjunction with Emilie Richard's Wedding Ring. This is the first Debbie Macomber book I've read. Parts of it were very interesting and made me think, but at times I just wanted to slap Susannah and Chrissie. I did like the way it ended, for the most part, but some things were just not plausible. Many things ring true as we age (and maybe we don't want to identify wtih some of them).
i wish i could have rated this 3 1/2 stars..lol
a quick read for me- susannah's mother is suffering some early alzheimer's symptoms, so she goes back home to move her to an assisted living facility. while there, she tries to track down and old boyfriend, deals with her (obnoxious) daughter, reconnects with old friends, deal with family secrets, and realizes that she really loves her husband.
a quick read for me- susannah's mother is suffering some early alzheimer's symptoms, so she goes back home to move her to an assisted living facility. while there, she tries to track down and old boyfriend, deals with her (obnoxious) daughter, reconnects with old friends, deal with family secrets, and realizes that she really loves her husband.
Macomber's talent is telling stories that explore human relationships. This story was so-so, but the parent/child dynamics were fascinating - parents/teen children, adults/aging parents. I only hope and pray to not do something regretfully stupid when my daughter becomes a teenager and asserts her independence. Now on to the next Blossom Street novel that's actually set in the yarn shop!
Because of the redeeming ending I gave this sound recording a 3 instead of a 2. If this had not been a sound recording I would not have made it through this book.
I like to think of myself as a sensible person even in my youth and the main character's of this book are far from that. Good thing I read a different book by Debbie Macomber first.
I like to think of myself as a sensible person even in my youth and the main character's of this book are far from that. Good thing I read a different book by Debbie Macomber first.
Susannah Nelson travels to her hometown, Colville, Washington, to help her aging mother move into an assisted-living apartment. While there, she tries to find out what happened to her high school boyfriend, Jake, discovers information about her brother's fatal accident, and comes to understand her recently deceased father better.
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