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    The Shop on Blossom Street
    The Shop on Blossom Street
    The Shop on Blossom Street
    Audiobook (abridged)5 hours

    The Shop on Blossom Street

    Written by Debbie Macomber

    Narrated by Linda Edmond

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    About this audiobook

    Four lives knit together…

    There's a little shop on Blossom Street in Seattle called A Good Yarn. You go there to buy knitting supplies and patterns -- and now it's offering a knitting class. The first lesson: how to knit a baby blanket.

    For owner Lydia Hoffman, the shop represents her dream of beginning a new life free from the cancer that has ravaged her twice. A life that offers a chance at love ... and maybe marriage.

    Jacqueline Donovan is stuck in a marriage that has dwindled into an arrangement of separate rooms and separate lives. She disapproves of the woman married to her only son, but if she knits a baby blanket, she can at least pretend to like her pregnant daughter-in-law.

    For Carol Girard, the baby blanket brings a message of hope as she and her husband make a final attempt at in vitro pregnancy.

    And tense-looking Alix Townsend -- that's Alix with an ""i"" -- is learning to knit her blanket for her court-ordered community service project.

    Brought together by an age-old craft, these four women make unexpected discoveries -- about themselves and each other. Discoveries that lead to love, to friendship and acceptance, to laughter and dreams.

    Performed by Linda Emond

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateNov 23, 2004
    ISBN9780060818227
    The Shop on Blossom Street
    Author

    Debbie Macomber

    Debbie Macomber is a #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author and a leading voice in women’s fiction today. She is a multiple award winner with more than 200 million copies of her books in print. Five of her Christmas titles have been made into Hallmark Channel Original Movies, as well as a series based on her bestselling Cedar Cove stories. For more information, visit her website:www.DebbieMacomber.com.

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    • 4/5
      Fun read about woman starting knitting shop with classes - Ann

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      This was very good read. It's about family,friends,cancer . Happy and sad times.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Lydia has taken a chance on life after battling brain cancer twice and decided to share her love of knitting by opening up a yarn shop...only her family thinks it is a terrible idea and that she will not succeed. Alix is a tough, street-smart young woman who is still trying to cope with the fallout of her young life and decides that learning to knit will help her achieve the court-ordered community service hours that she needs. Jacqueline is a woman of high-society who spends her days shopping and lunching with friends; she appears to have it all...then why is her husband cheating on her and why did her son marry the wrong woman? Carol and her husband long for a child of their own and are on their last attempt through IVF. She finds solace in learning to knit a baby blanket, certain that this is a sign that this last treatment will produce the baby she has been longing for. These four women will bond together in unexpected friendship at the newly opened yarn shop in downtown Seattle. This book caught my eye at the local bookstore. I started it and completed it yesterday! You don't have to be a knitter or a crafter to enjoy this book! It was a very good book and I have already started the sequel in the Blossom Street series: A Good Yarn. Hoping the sequel is just a good and the series as well...since there are 10 books in the series!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Good story, characters I grew to like, nice easy summer read.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Lydia is in remission from cancer, is missing her recently deceased father, and decides to finally live her life. She starts a yarn store on a street under construction. To build business, she starts a knitting class. Only 3 women join. They are so different from each other - from a young felon knitting away her community service hours to a rich socialite knitting for a new grand-baby to a woman trying desperately to conceive a child, that Lydia despairs of ever building the group up. Everyone eventually becomes friends (spoiler-not-spoiler).This is my first foray into the drama section of chick lit. It wasn't bad. But unfortunately, that means I can't really compare it to other books in the genre. On the plus side, it was well written and engaging. I cared about the characters. I did not miss the smut of the romance novels I had been reading lately. It was overall fairly refreshing, but that might just be the difference in genres.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Sometimes, after reading a long historical novel fraught with disasters or a dark detective tale -- never mind the news of the day -- you just need a light and enjoyable story. In just such a mood I picked up The Shop on Blossom Street, the first of Macomber's series about a Seattle yarn shop. Since my daughters are knitters, my most recent (far too long ago) trip to Seattle included stops in quite a few yarn shops, so I was familiar with this milieu. (I don't knit, but I like to look at all the colors.)What I enjoy about Macomber's books, of which I've read two or three a year for the past few years, is that she always injects a healthy dose of reality into the romance. In this case, her 30-ish protagonist is a two-time cancer survivor who has recently lost her father. Her life has been on hold for far too much of the time since her first diagnosis at age 16, and she takes a giant leap in opening a yarn shop in a transitional urban neighborhood. To get things going, she offers a knitting class on making a baby blanket. The three women who sign up all have different reasons for wanting to make one. One is a young married woman with fertility problems, desperate for a baby; one is a society matron whose only son's "unsuitable" wife has just announced her pregnancy; and one is a street-smart, prickly video store clerk who will donate the blanket to the Linus Project as part of her court-mandated community service hours. The ways these women interact, the friendship they find, and how they help solve each other's problems in surprising ways make for a quite enjoyable read. Yes, they find romance too, but it seems that the community of women is the main focus of the book. The Seattle setting is evocative without being a travelogue. I'll probably pick up the next in the series the next time I need a break. Recommended for people who like this kind of book.

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    • 5/5
      I picked up "Back at Blossom Street" at a whim at a garage sale, not realizing until I sat down to actually read it that it was the third in a series. Not one to let a small thing like that stop me, I immediately turned to Amazon and as they had the two first ones at a reasonable price, I bought them and started reading. It took me less than 10% to fall in love with the series.

      "The Shop on Blossom Street" is a wonderfully cozy story. There's not much plot to it, but it's simply a charming comfort-read. I liked the main characters and enjoyed getting to know their good and bad sides. I especially enjoyed seeing the relationship between Margaret and Lydia evolve.

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    • 3/5
      I thought that the characters in this book were excellent, however while reading I kept feeling like I wasn't as pulled into the "Blossom Street" world as much as I had anticipated. I think that is because, while the characters are interesting, and the plot plausible, the setting of the store itself is not particularly interesting. Unlike similar series such as Elm Creek Quilts, the location of the shop is not nearly as fascinating, and for me that left the rest of the book feeling a little lacking. I am still planning on reading the rest of the books in this series, but probably not until I read some things first.
    • 5/5
      Book 1 of 13, next in series is "a good yarn".
    • 4/5
      A couple years ago I was introduced to the writing of Debbie Macomber and surprised by how much I enjoyed it with a new-at-the-time novel, Hannah's List . What I didn't discover until recently is that it was the seventh book in a series. As the ninth book just released and my mom reviewed it I became interested in the rest of the series and sought it out. The series starts with this book, The Shop on Blossom Street.I've been blessed with a copy of this from a publicist and have enjoyed reading it. Today I discovered it was available as an audiobook from the Overdrive system and I've needed to be crafty so I borrowed the e-audio and quilted. ALL DAY LONG. I listened to the entire book today and I snickered. I laughed. I cried, more than once. There is an interesting cast of characters and to see the way they are all brought together is interesting as well as amusing. Before we moved across state lines I had a pretty nifty neat of quilting friends, and since moving it has been very difficult to meet other quilters. Most of the stores here and personalities are vastly different from what I was used to and the friendly community just wasn't here. Until recently with two fairly new stores opening up just minutes away. Reading about these four women and the way they connected with each other and worked out there own issues over a project or two was cathartic. It also brings hope. I think that Debbie Macomber has a great ministry. She entertains, but she also provides just enough seeds and reassurance that those with faith and those without can gain from reading her stories. I remember enjoying Hannah's List so much and my mother assures me that Starting Now is just as good to read. Oooooh! The mail just brought me a new ARC of Starry Night: A Christmas Novel to read! I cannot wait! I'm also hoping to jump into book two from the Blossom Street series in A Good Yarn .Thanks to the publicist for providing a copy for review. To be posted to CreativeMadnessMama.com.
    • 3/5
      This is escapism, pure and simple. Nice characters, but the plot changes are signaled way ahead, so there are no real surprises here. Good for slotting in between more serious books.
    • 4/5
      In the book "The shop on blossom street" the author had told a story that is surrounded by 4 women. Each woman has a pain that troubles her deeply. There's Lydia a cancer survor who is the owner of a shop entitled "A good yarn". Then there is Jacqueline who is very wealthy and is estranged from her husband. There's Carol who having failed twice is hoping to become a mother. And last there's Alix an outcast that has been ordered by the court to spend her time on community projects. The more you read the more these women's began to mix with each other. It's a wonderful story that I'm sure you will enjoy.
    • 3/5
      Four women meet at a knitting shop in Seattle, and over the next year and a half, become very good friends, each of them becoming a better person because of their friendships. It's a simplistic-sounding plot, but the story's told very well, the writing is good, and the people are believable (even if some of the plot resolutions take a little bit of suspension of disbelief). One of the women has a very realistic struggle with infertility which was pretty heartbreaking. I'd love to see an Asian-American or African-American character in one of the next books in the series, which is a hope you can't always hold out for in a mainstream book, but I'm definitely going to pick up the next one.
    • 4/5
      I liked this quick, easy read.
    • 4/5
      Three women with very different lives and problems meet and become unlikely friends through a knitting class at a new local yarn shop.Part sweet (not at all racy) romance, part girl-friends-being-strong-for-each-other feel-good story, this was a comfy, easy read and a re-read for me. I would have liked...more?...in most aspect of the book: each woman's story could have been fleshed out better, the endings all seemed a little too pat. And also in some places I would have liked a little less, mostly in the needed-more-editing department, as some of the characters' thoughts and feelings were rehashed a few times too many. I'm also not a huge fan of Christian romance themes, and although this one only skated round the hint of a God-y plot, I still balked a bit at how close one storyline came to Youth Pastor Falls for and Then Saves Poor Bad-Girl Godless Uncouth Woman. (Just, ew.) Despite all of this, I still enjoyed it, which may come down the nostalgia of a re-read. *shrug*
    • 3/5
      This was an okay light read. One of those books you turn to when you have read something involved and you need a rest. Standard characters, predictable situations, it was entertaining nonetheless.
    • 1/5
      Everyone thought I would like this one because it is about knitting, but its really NOT. Its another chick-book about "relationships" and has some knitting trendiness thworn in.
    • 5/5
      The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber

      Lydia Hoffman is a survivor of cancer she opens a knitting shop on blossom street and she decides to teach how to knit the first lesson is how to make a baby blanket,Jacqueline Donovan is in an unhappy marriage and now her son has married a woman that Jackie loathes. With a grandchild on the way, she decides to knit a baby blanket to improve between her and her daughter-in-law. Carol Girard and her husband are struggling to have children. Carol decides that knitting a baby blanket may give them the luck and success they need in her struggle to conceive. Alix Townsend must perform community service and decides she will knit a blanket for the court approved Linus she needs to learn to knit 
    • 3/5
      Cancer survivor Lydia Hoffman opens a yarn shop on Blossom Street. In order to attract customers, she decides to hold knitting classes, with a baby blanket being the first project. Three people sign up, all with different reasons for being there. Unhappily married Jacqueline Donovan dislikes her new pregnant daughter-in-law, Tammie Lee, but decides to knit the baby blanket to show her son she is making an effort to accept his new wife. Carol Girard desperately wants a baby, but has been unable to conceive and is about to undergo her third and final IVF procedure. When she sees the sign for knitting a baby blanket, she takes it as a good omen and joins the class. Alix Townsend had a rough upbringing, has had a bit of trouble with the law, and is living from paycheck to paycheck. Although she can barely afford it, she decides to sign up for the knitting classes because she can donate the blanket to charity and use it against her court ordered community service hours. Lydia is a bit concerned that these totally different women won't get along, but they all become close in ways none of them imagined. "The Shop on Blossom Street" was a funny, but light read, what I call cotton candy for the brain. Of the four characters I liked Lydia and Alix the best. Lydia's troubled relationship with her sister and the affect the cancer has had on her life, especially in her relationships, were interesting. The story of Alix's troubled childhood makes her a sympathetic character and readers will want her to succeed in her relationship with youth minister Jordan Turner. Carol's struggle to have a child is heartbreaking, although I found her character to be a bit bland. I found Jacqueline to be a stereotypical rich, shallow person at first, concerned only with her standing in society, but her character grew on me by the end of the book. Debbie Macomber's story telling ability is her strong point. She creates characters that you care about and readers will eagerly turn the pages to find out what happens to them. Unfortunately at times she resorts to cliched characters like Jacqueline, which is a shame when the other three characters are so believable and likable. Some of the plots in this book are also cliched and one particular plot, involving Alix and her roommate, was too convenient and totally unbelievable. "The Shop on Blossom Street" is a nice but fluffy read.
    • 3/5
      This book was a first from this author for me, and I have read several of her books since. I enjoyed this book and how the relationships that evolve so quickly. I loved Alix and her bad girl attitude, and that her and Jacqueline end up being such good friends in the end. I really liked Tammie Lee's character, and loved that in the end that it was Alix that changed Carol's life.
    • 2/5
      Gender stereotypes, ahoy! Seriously, I think if you can turn off the part of your brain that goes "well, not all women would want that.." I think it would be enjoyable enough of a read, but I just couldn't.
    • 4/5
      When the baby boy was born.
      The only real problem for me is the way Tammy lee was speaking. My family is from Louisiana and I’m from Texas. No One Ever Says “ I do declare”! The accent was terrible, I cringed every time she spoke! Other than that it was exactly what I wanted, something light and easy!
    • 4/5
      Since I read the second book, I decided to go back and read the first one to fully understand everything.Again, a cute book. One of those happily ever after endings. Again, just what I am seeking in my reading right now ...I liked it a lot!
    • 5/5
      Very easy, pretty patterns with little stories from the books. Proceeds from purchasing these books go to Warm Up America.
    • 5/5
      Lydia Hoffman decided to start a knitting shop on Blossom Street. She called it A Good Yarn and it represented her new life free from cancer. The shop offers knitting classes and the first one is "How to Knit a Baby Blanket".Three people join the class: Jacqueline Donovan is estranged from her husband, doesn't like the woman married to her only son, but is determined to at least pretend she likes her pregnant daughter-in-law by knitting the baby blanket.For Carol Girard, the baby blanket represents a message of hope as she and her husband make a final attempt at in vitro fertilization. And tough-looking Alix Townsend is knitting the blanket as part of court-ordered community service project.These four woman will learn about friendship, make unexpected discoveries - about themselves and each other - and experience love through the age-old craft of knitting. My sister in Australia recommended this book to me and I give it an A+!
    • 5/5
      This is another wonderful book by Debbie Macomber. This is the first in a series on Blossom Street about the people who live in the area or own some of the store fronts on Blossom Street. Three gals join in another kitting group, plus the knitting store owner and her sister are all portrayed in this book, weaving their stories together.
    • 5/5
      Love this book! Can't wait to read the others in the series. May 2007
    • 4/5
      A very good narration. The characters in this book are very well developed and I cared for each person's story equally.
    • 2/5
      Entertaining, silly fluff. I listened to it as an audiobook while knitting, and if you can get past the rather contrived characters and plot, it's not a bad background for knitting.
    • 5/5
      I love reading this author also. I have read all 3 of the books in the series. A young woman decides to open a yarn shop in a newly developing area, much to her sister's dismay. Her sister never has anything nice to say. The woman decides to start a knitting class and 3 woman sign up for it. The 3 woman are from very different classes in life, but eventually make the most of it. The young woman who owns the shop even comes to find love in a very strange way. I hope she writes a book #4.soon.