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Summary: A feel good book
Comment: When you pick up A Debbie Macomber book, you pick up a hug.She writes such wonderful books that keep
you coming back for more. Thanks Ms. Macomber!

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Summary: Blossom Street Makes me feel at home.
Comment: I just finished reading this book after 2 days. I loved it and couldn't wait to see what happened
next. I moved from Seattle 10 months ago and after reading this book I told my husband we are
moving back I miss it so, much and Debbie makes me feel that I am right there with the people on
Blossom Street. Even Thou Blossom Street is not real, Debbie does a good job of showing how Seattle
opens its heart and arms to people in need and I can't wait for the next book. I have started my own
list of Twenty Wishes with Number one being I moving back to Seattle and dancing in the rain like
Anne Marie.

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Summary: Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber
Comment: A great book that is a continuation of Debbie Macomber's Blossom Street series. Love her books.

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Summary: Twenty Wishes
Comment: "Twenty Wishes" was a great book. It was a page turner that I couldn't, or wanted to, put down. It
was filled with hope and love. Debbie Macomber has done it again. She's made me want to start my
own list!

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Summary: Heartfelt and Emotional - WONDERFUL
Comment: Valentine's Day, turned out to be a pivotal day for Anne Marie Roche and some of her widowed friends
as they got together to celebrate what had once been a romantic holiday for each of them. As the
most recent widow, Anne Marie felt empty and deprived since the thing she wanted most in life, was
the thing that had come between she and her husband. In a whimsical mood the widows decided that
each should make a list of the things they'd always dreamt of doing but had not yet done in their
lives. At the top of Anne Marie's list was to find one good thing about life; learn to knit; do
something good for someone else; and falling in love again.

Elise Beaumont suggested
to Anne Marie to volunteer as a `lunch buddy' at the local grammar school. Not truly enthusiastic,
but willing to give it a try, Anne Marie met 8 year old Ellen who would help Anne Marie, not only
make her wishes come true but find some of the best things in life she had all but forgotten
existed.

*** For any reader who looks for a book to provide the most excellent reading
pleasure along with a totally satisfied feeling of fulfillment, they must add Debbie Macomber to the
top of their reading list. In reading this story, I am reminded of a bit of advice from a dear
friend who once told me, "God hears all your prayers .... Only sometimes he says, "no."" HE may say
"no" to what you want but He may answer them in a way you never would have guessed and Macomber
wrote a splendid story in showing just that.

Returning to the fictional Blossom
Street of Seattle, setting of several other stories, i.e. A GOOD YARN; the SHOP ON BLOSSOM STREET,
etc., Macomber introduces Anne Marie Roche who is still reeling from the sudden death of her husband
Robert as they were about to reconcile after a brief separation. The separation had been Anne
Marie's idea in order to convince her husband how serious she was to have his child. After his
death and age 38, her regret over that ploy and guilt had just about drained the life out of her.
Then she and her friends came up with an idea to get themselves all out of the doldrums. Make a
wish list, no matter how silly or whimsical, but just make a list and see if they couldn't make some
of their wishes come true.

At the top of Anne Marie's list was a simple wish, find
something good about life (or in other words, be happy). By volunteering to be a `lunch buddy', Anne
Marie soon found the joy in life, along with finally getting out and "acting" on some of her other
wishes.

Although Anne Marie and her relationships with young Ellen, as well as her
`strained' relationship with step-daughter Melissa were the focus in the story, Macomber filled this
book with two other delightful stories that were equally engrossing. The well-to-do mother daughter
widows, Lillie and Barbie, who'd both lost their husbands together in a plane accident, were also
extremely entertaining as they made their lists. In the most entertaining way, author Debbie
Macomber showed them each finding their hearts true desire in the most unlikely of places and not as
either of them would have ever expected.

Bottom line: If your wish, like Anne Marie's
is to "find something good about life" then just pick up TWENTY WISHES and you'll find something
fantastic. Highly recommended.

Marilyn Rondeau

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