A Good Yarn - Blossom Street, No 2 Author:Debbie Macomber Please join me at A Good Yarn! It's a wonderful little knitting shop in downtown Seattle -- a place of welcome and warmth, of friends old and new. Come and discover how knitting a pair of socks can change your life! Debbie Macomber Lydia Hoffman owns the shop on Blossom Street. In the year since it opened, A Good Yarn has thrived -- and so has L... more »ydia. A lot of that is due to Brad Goetz. But when Brad's ex-wife reappears, Lydia is suddenly afraid to trust her newfound happiness. Three women join Lydia's newest class. Elisa Beaumont, retired and bitterly divorced, learns that her onetime husband is reentering her life. Bethanne Hamlin is facing the fallout from a much more recent divorce. And Courtney Pulanski is a depressed and overweight teenager, whose grandmother's idea of helping her is to drag her to seniors' swim sessions -- and to the knitting class at A Good Yarn.« less
I wish PBS had a feature that would reach out and slap me if I ever request another Macomber book. I know good and well that I read a good one of hers one time, but that must have been a fluke. Or someone else wrote it for her...
OK, everybody who loves Debbie Macomber wave your hands------STOP! The wind is blowing the rest of the world away! This is a fitting follow up to The Shop on Blossom Street. Debbie writes characters you can get to know and wrap your brain around. What's next for Lydia and Brad - can't wait to find out! And who does the illustrations for her book covers? I want to live there!
I just finished "The Shop on Blossom Street" and I found this book too much alike. It was almost the same ladies just with slightly different names. She also reuses some of the names I think so if it has been a while since you have read the first book, keep in mind that she is not talking about the same people in some instances.
I was also disappointed with some of the endings. Lydia and Brad seemed to reconciled a little too easily for my taste. For somebody with issues of being left behind by her lovers, Lydia sure was understanding towards Brad's decisions. And Brad was really kind of a jerk about the whole thing. He didn't really deserve Lydia in my book. He definitely needed to do some grovelling because despite his good intention toward his son, he did Lydia wrong.
I enjoyed Elise's story in the beginning but I found the end really distasteful. So since her ex is dying and is rich, now she can really accept him for who he is?
Out of all the stories I think I liked Bethanne the most because like it said in the end, she completely reinvented herself. This character was most realistic and different from the characters in the first book. I also love how her relationship with Paul turned out. I think out of the four women, she became the strongest character.
Courtney's story was sweet but a little too much like "Grease" for my taste. I liked the relationship she develops with Annie more than anything. The ending to her story was pretty good, more realistic than romantic. I am curious to know if these three will show up in future books. I wonder why Macomber developed her story with Andrew so slowly. It seemed like there were some good material and drama that could have come out of her relationship with Andrew if it happened earlier.
Overall, it was a fast read but just okay. I think the stories were a little too forced, like Macomber felt like she needed to do a sequel but lacked ideas. I will continue to read the series for now and see if it gets better.