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Back on Blossom Street (Blossom Street, No. 3)
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Back on Blossom Street (Blossom Street, No. 3)
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by Debbie Macomber
Sales Rank: 5952
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List Price: $7.99
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Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Mira Books March 1, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0778325350
ISBN-13: 978-0778325352
Product Dimensions:
6.5 x 4.1 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
Women who share a love of knitting support each other through the vicissitudes of life in Macomber's unsurprising third novel set on Seattle's fictional Blossom Street. Lydia Goetz, the proprietor of the knitting store (and series anchor) A Good Yarn, has begun teaching a new knitting class on prayer shawls. Fellow knitters include Colette Blake, a 31-year-old widow who rents the apartment above the shop and whose grief over her dead husband is being supplemented by confusion about her relationship with former boss and possible criminal Christian Dempsey. Also casting on is Alix Townsend, the daughter of a family of miscreants and now engaged to the Rev. Jordan Turner and so stressed over wedding planning that she wonders if she's pastor's wife material. Closer to home, Lydia's niece Julia is the victim of a carjacking and an ineffectual justice system, and Lydia is feeling bereft because, thanks to her history of cancer, she may never give birth to her own child. Readers will get exactly what they expect: a litany of feel-good, unassailable instances of the benefits of friendship, tolerance and knitting; happy endings for all; and simple if saccharine prose. Readers who already cherish life à la Blossom Street will welcome this slight variation on the theme. (May)
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From AudioFile
Another in MacomberÕs Blossom Street series, this story follows a handful of interconnected female protagonists, all anchored to each other by family, friendship, and weekly knitting classes. While the story is sentimental to a fault, Laural MerlingtonÕs diverse yet consistent voicing enhances not only the drama between the women, but also the development of each of the characters as they grow closer together. Merlington does a fine job of voicing LydiaÕs steady compassion, MargaretÕs bossiness and anxiety, ColetteÕs trepidation over a surprise pregnancy, and AlixÕs shift from introverted to engaging and considerate. MerlingtonÕs narration seems rushed at first, but she hits her stride by the second disc, almost as if she, like the listener, is getting to know the characters, their hopes, and their dreams. A.A. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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