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A Homespun Mother's Day

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I loved these little love stories -- especially Twice Blessed. Thomas is a wonderful hero and I love the way Lydia learned to be a mother to Robert. I also liked the time and the setting. The people of the little beach town of Eden Point really came to life! I highly recommend this special story.

I read A Homespun Mother's Day which is one of the best books of short story romances that I have ever read and like the other short story books I have read this one features romances by different authors. Emma's Day by Jill Metcalf is about an older heroine named Emma Porter who finds love with a younger man named Ward Hamilton. Twice Blessed by Rebecca Hagen Lee, is about Lydia Turner who falls in love with a newcomer to her small town named Thomas Sullivan and tries to help his young son Robert adjust to life in a strange new place. Coming Home by Teresa Warfield is in my opinion the best story and is about Rachel Cameron a young lady with a love of reading books who falls for a new comer to her area a writer named Timothy Benton. This book is great and I highly recommend it!

I really liked the Historical American short stories in this romance compilation, they are great short stories that aren't too short like in some other romance compilations, I especially liked Coming Home by Teresa Warfield, I really liked the nice down to earth characters, my favorites are Timothy Benton, and Rachel Cameron and I really felt that they definitely made a great couple, I also liked Rachel's grandmother Lydia, also I just can totally relate to Timothy's Rachel's and Lydia's love for books and like Rachel I would be totally amazed by Timothy's wonderful collection of books! My second favorite story is Twice Blessed by Rebecca Hagan Lee, it is a nice story, I liked the heroine Lydia Turner and I both liked and at times disliked the hero Thomas Sullivan a doctor who has just arrived from France with his insecure young son, I liked how Lydia was so patient and so caring to Thomas's son Robert but I felt that Thomas could have been a little more understanding to poor Robert's feelings, okay Robert could be bratty but he was only about 4 or 5 years old and scared and lonely, his mother has died and his father who he barely knows and has maybe seen once or twice in his life has plucked him out of his country and brought him to a new country which has got to be scary to a little kid being moved to a new place. Also what was big deal to Thomas about Robert speaking French, sure you would want him to also be able to speak English but what would be so wrong to let him also speak French which is his first language and part of his heritage and also what was the big deal to Thomas about Robert wanting his name Robert pronounced the French way which is kind of like Ro-Bear, I say let the kid pronounce his name the only way he knows, afterall that was how his late mother being French would have pronounced it. The other story Emma's Day by Jill Metcalf was good and I liked the heroine Emma Parker and the hero Ward Hamilton but it wasn't my favorite of the stories, If you like short romance stories than you will probably like this book.