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The Blue Bottle Club
The Blue Bottle Club
Author: Penelope J. Stokes
In the wake of the depression of 1929, four friends gather in a cold, dusty attic on Christmas day to make a solemn pact. "Our dreams for the future," they whisper, as they place tiny pieces of paper holding their life wishes into the blue, cabin-shaped bottle. Letitia dreams of marriage and children; Mary hopes to be a painter; Eleanor aspires ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780849915734
ISBN-10: 0849915732
Publication Date: 5/6/1999
Pages: 352
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 19 ratings
Publisher: WestBow Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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Great Story!!
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I don't think I've read anything as wonderful as this book in a long, long time! This tale of four friends who lose touch over time but are brought together sixty-five years later will touch your heart and bring tears to your eyes. Brendan, a TV news reporter, comes upon a blue bottle enclosed with the handwritten dreams of four young girls following the 1929 Stock Market Crash. Brendan is looking for something more in her life, and she decides to find out what happened to the women. What Brendan finds is more than a story, though, when she discovers that God held these women up during their lives and that God would be there for her also. What a wonderful story! I can't recommend it enough...
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Entertaining.
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This is a story about four women who placed their dreams in a "blue bottle" in 1929. The bottle was found in 1994. Reporter Brendan Delaney follows up on the four women and also finds her own dream in the process. This is a very uplifting story.
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Four friends gather in a dusty, cold attic and place their dreams for the future on little pieces of paper which they place in a blue bottle shaped like a log cabin. Years later, during the demoltion of this house, the bottle comes into the hands of a reporter. She sees the story of a lifetime and decides to search out these women and see if their wishes cames true. This is my first read by this author and I have already order two more. Loved it.
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I enjoyed reading this. It was a pleasant book-light reading. Some times the religious aspects got a little heavy, but I did not know that it was a Christian-oriented book before I started reading it.
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This is one of my favorite books of all I have read. Such a good story
of high school girls writing about what they plan to do with their lives when they are out of school. They write it on paper and put it in a bottle and leave it in the attic of one girl. It is forgotten for years and when
the house is torn down, the bottle is found and a reporter decides to try and find these gals who would be old ladies by now. Good book!!!
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This was the first book I read by this author and she is going to be a favorite. The story was absolutely wonderful. Couldn't put it down.
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On the eve of the Depression, four girls confide their dreams on paper and commit them to posterity by storing them in a blue bottle in an attic. Sixty-five years later, a jaded female television reporter finds their girlhood wishes and determines to track the women down. While the plot may sound predictable, the characters are not; they are some of the strongest, most appealing women characters ever to appear in an evangelical fiction. The novel has a happy ending, but not in the traditional sense written for a female audience: no godly hero comes riding in on white horse to rescue the women from poverty, abandonment and despair. Their stories involve broken dreams, betrayed hearts, unconditional love, and their lifelong friendships with other women.
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Excellent story with interesting characters and a happy ending.


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