This was so good! This is, yet another, WWII story. This is NOT the usual WWII story. It is a story told from the perspective of a 'good' German family trying to live their lives according to the Nazi doctrine. They struggle with trying to scratch out a living as bakers and trying to keep their f...
The Baker's Daughter is really a story within a story. In the set-up story Reba Allen, a writer for a local magazine in El Paso, Texas, is assigned to write a fluff piece about the Christmas customs of the various cultures that make up the melting pot that is El Paso. In pursuit of this, she decides...
This is a poignant tale that spans decades and shows us what true courage and beauty is. I really loved this book from prologue to epilogue. I was transported to a different time and place, and back, flawlessly. Ms. McCoy did a masterful job of using letter writing and email correspondence to hel...
I have to say that there really wasn’t much I liked about this book at all. Young adult, coming of age novels are a favorite genre of mine but I just could not get into this book. I mainly couldn’t stand Verdita. My dislike of her was so profound that by the end of the book there was no reconcili...
Suspenseful, attention-keeping novel about a German woman struggling with life under Nazism and a parallel story about a reporter in present-day Texas with her own life/love issues. Think Sarah's Key meets The Book Thief. It's a fine novel that will be popular with book clubs and fans of Holocaust/W...
In The Baker’s Daughter, Sarah McCoy covers an impressive amount of story within an economical 300 pages. In brief chapters that shift between past and present narratives, she explores the life of a German baker’s family during the last months of the Third Reich, the modern-day personal conflicts of...
The Baker’s Daughter is a story about a girl who grows up in wartime Germany, and the impact of the war on her family and her life. It is also the story of a woman who has to figure out what she really wants out of life – lucky as she is to have one that’s nowhere near as complicated as Elsie’s was....
I started this book and felt a bit stony about the story: the writing felt kind of casually journalistic, like an A&E piece in a local paper, and rather snobbily I thought this might be a topical, fluffy read. After picking up the book yesterday morning in bed, I had my nose in it on my walk to the...
It's 1945 in Germany and teenager Elsie Schmidt is keeping out of trouble by helping out at her family's bakery and dating SS officer Josef Hub. But her first experience of a Nazi party is not all that she thought it would be and it's only the presence of a captive Jewish boy that saves her from a ...
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