A Good Yarn Book Review

A Good Yarn (Blossom Street) by Debbie Macomber is the second in the Blossom Street series.  I read the first and I really wanted to try out the second one.  I was at the library one day and it was on the shelf.  I picked it up and I had to hold off for a little bit since I was in the middle of my previous book.  I finished that and decided that I should read this before it was due back to the library.  I got in one day under the wire so that I can return it tomorrow. 

This book has a different character telling each chapter.  The great thing is that the story goes on and you get a little of each person's perspective of what is happening.  The book starts off with Lydia Hoffman, the owner of the Good Yarn store who starts a knitting class to make socks.  The group of unlikely friends all sign up for the class.  First, Elisa Beaumont is a retired librarian who lost her savings when she invested in a new house and the company went bankrupt.  She is living with her daughter and trying to find purpose for the new chapter in her life.  Second, Bethanne Hamlin is recently divorced and trying to pick up the pieces of her life and support her two children without any income.  The women in the group help her decide what to do with the rest of her life while her husband has gone to live with the woman that he was cheating on her with.  Third, Courtney Pulaniski is a high school senior who moved in with her grandmother over the summer so that her father could take a job in Brazil.  She is dealing with the death of her mother a few years prior and the weight gain that she put on during her grief, all while starting at a new school.  After a rocky start, all three ladies become close friends.

I love the way that Debbie Macomber tells a story and really brings you into all of the characters lives.  It makes me understand and feel like I am in the middle of the friendships of all of their ladies.  I highly recommend this and all the other books in the Blossom Street series (I am sure her other books are good too but I haven't tried them out yet!!)  Let me know if you have any recommendations on what series to work on next :)