Author: Sarah McCoy
This was just like reading Anne of Green Gables all over again. Some of the same friends of Marilla in the Anne stories are young people in this book. The story starts when Marilla is thirteen years old and follows her story through to before they bring Anne to live with them. Marilla is pictured as being as high-spirited as Anne turned out to be. I think Lucy Maud would approve!
Goodreads Rating: * * * * *
Author: Alice Walker
I thought I had read this book previously but a look through some old book reviews didn’t reveal anything. I do, however, remember the movie version of the book.
I have two other books in this series loaded on my Kindle. I don’t know how long I’ve had them because I didn’t even know there was a series.
Had I owned a copy of the book it would have remained on my shelf, but this one I downloaded from the library onto my iPad.
Goodreads Rating: * * * * *
Author: Sarah McCoy
I thought I had read another book by this author but when I checked with Goodreads I had listed another one as “Want to Read” but hadn’t read it yet. I just placed a hold on that book from our library.
The Bakers Daughter is the story of two generations of bakers. The original baker’s daughter, Elsie, struggles to keep the family’s German bakery going during the first world war. Her family has been befriended by a high-ranking Nazi so they are somewhat protected. But when Elsie hides a young Jewish boy in the walls of her room things become more dangerous. Many years later Elsie and her daughter have opened a German bakery in Texas. The book takes us into Elsie’s past as well as telling the story of her new life in America.
Goodreads Rating: * * *
Author: Anne Tyler
I’m a fan of this author so it is no surprise that I loved this book. It amazes me how the author can turn an ordinary life and family into such an interesting story. It wasn’t until almost the end of the book that I found the link to the title.
While chatting with his wife about the French braids their daughter wore when she was young, and the crimped hair that remained when the braids came out, David makes this comment.
“… that’s how families work. You think you’re free of them, but you’re never really free; the ripples are crimped in forever.”
Goodreads Rating – ****