The Blue Bottle Club

by Penelope J. Stokes

Book Overview

Four friends gathered in a cold, dusty attic on Christmas day to make a solemn pact. "Our dreams for the future," they whispered, placing tiny pieces of paper into a shimmering blue bottle. But that event happened in 1929, and it is decades later when local news reporter Brenna Delaney stumbles upon that bottle . . . and into the most meaningful story of her career. Life has taken those four girls' dreams of love, fame, and faith on a path fraught...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0849937809
• ISBN13: 9780849937804
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

An enjoyable read

I liked this book very much. It was a lite and easy book to read. The characters were enjoyable as were their stories. It is very faith based and some of the characters turn their back on God for awhile during their lifetimes, then finding thier way back to Him. I found myself liking the women and wanting to know their life stories. I would recommend this book for a night when you put on your PJ's and curl up on the couch with a cup of hot tea or hot chocolate.

It was so easy to identify with them.

I too had trouble putting the book down. Our lives often take twists and turns you don't anticipate as a 17 yr old. I remember my girlfriend and I exchanging thoughts on what we were going to do with our lives at that tender age, so I can identify with these characters. This book is a "must read" if your life took a different direction than you ever expected.

Excellent

The Blue Bottle Club was excellent. I began reading late one evening and had to force myself to stop. I literaly could not put the book down. Like another reader commented, I also found myself feeling like I actually knew the characters...I didn't want the story to end. I thought the book had a great layout and the author did an excellent job of keeping you clear on what time period she was in. Excellent book. I can't wait to read another one of Penelope J. Stoke's books.

Refreshing Tale of Spirituality and Love...

I don't think I've read anything as wonderful as this book in a long, long time! This tale of four friends who lose touch over time but are brought together sixty-five years later will touch your heart and bring tears to your eyes. Brendan, a TV news reporter, comes upon a blue bottle enclosed with the handwritten dreams of four young girls following the 1929 Stock Market Crash. Brendan is looking for something more in her life, and she decides to find out what happened to the women. What Brendan finds is more than a story, though, when she discovers that God held these women up during their lives and that God would be there for her also. What a wonderful story! I can't recommend it enough... - Melissa Galyon

What positive powers to help us on our journey!

This was the most inspirational book I'd read in awhile. Seeing how these characters dealt with the directions their lives went helped me to deal with unseen delays in my own. As the characters, the journalist, and I found out, delays many times result in untold blessings! The book also brought out a belief I have always held - that each person you meet along your journey (good or bad) shapes the person you become. This was the most satisfying story I have read in quite a while.