So the blog is officially working with one of my goals – getting and sharing book ideas. After reading the blog, this book was recommended to me by my neighbor and friend growing up in Crystal Lake (thanks Mrs. WJ). I need to find a way to have a page for comments only, so that you all can post books you’d like to recommend to the group without being an ‘author’.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford (3.5)
This is a touching story set in Seattle that swings between WWII and present day. It is a novel surrounded by real events, specifically the internment of Japanese Americans in the camps. I liked that the story was told from the point of view of a Chinese American boy, who watched events happen to his friend with the unique perspective of an Asian child with immigrant parents who had their own enmity for the Japanese. It also brings up other questions such as: why didn’t they intern the German Americans? And could that happen today (Muslim Americans)? For those book clubbers who just read ‘Gendarme’, there are several similarities, but this book was a more pleasant, uplifting read.
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