The Union Street Bakery

The Union Street Bakery by Mary Ellen Taylor
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

One minute you’re on top – fancy, swanky apartment, designer dresses, killer heels and the next minute you’re back sharing your parent’s attic with a ghost and all your worldly goods stuffed in boxes. Daisy lived the good life until the CEO of her company raised the bet and lost it all including his business and employees. Now Daisy spends the hours before dawn kneading dough and making bread in her family bakery – a once prospering business that’s now running in the red. It’s up to Daisy to crunch the numbers, help them break even and solve the mystery of the ghost and an old journal has been gifted to her from a frequent bakery customer. But, Daisy constantly entertains the idea of leaving, especially when she’s offered a job with a prestigious company…..

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So Far Away

So Far Away: A Novel by Meg Mitchell Moore
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Natalie Gallagher, 13 and neglected - due to her parent's divorce, a father who is caught up in his new girlfriend and a mother who has slid into deep depression - is a girl on the brink. Her once best friend is now a cyberbully partner with popular Taylor Grant and the two send text messages that are cutting, cruel, and demeaning. When Natalie finds an old diary in the basement, while looking for family birth records, she heads to the city library archive where she meets 50 something Kathleen Lynch - who has lost her own teenage daughter to drugs. Kathleen, with the help of her coworker, Neil, is determined to decipher the diary's illegible writing and save Natalie.

Very current, very deep, and very moving - once again I found a book that couldn't be put down.

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