Evening mood
Have added to my collection today, including the tagged.
pickShort but powerful GN imagining the life of a young Japanese-American woman during WW2.
12 year old Tomi writes “I Am An American”
while being forced into an internment camp, holding tight to loyalty in the face of injustice. ⛺️🔒
but the story leans into hope over anger. It‘s about quiet, perseverance, & belief in a country still stumbling toward its promises.
Note: it‘s a strawberry field not a cherry orchard haha 🤣
#julyjazz #historical #fiction #emotional
pick#Bibliophile Day 13: This #NewberyWinner is a book about sisters, about the journeys we take to find ‘home‘ (only to discover it within ourselves); it is also about grief and loss and the glittering skies that provide a shining cushion against darkness and pain and overwhelming loneliness. My full review here to find out what kira-kira means: https://wp.me/pDlzr-4Y2
so-soThis book follows three young women—Ruby, Grace, and Helen—mostly in the 1930s and 40s in San Fransisco, as they are navigating a career of dancing in nightclubs and World War II. Lisa See is a great storyteller, and I thought there were good elements, but overall it fell a little short for me. I liked how sweeping the story was, but also some parts felt a little too protracted. Some parts had interesting commentary, but other parts felt trite.
pickI love George Takei for his acting, his activism, and his humor. They Called Us Enemy is a graphic memoir about Takei's childhood spent incarcerated in an interment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. It was a heartbreaking story, but also one of family perseverance. We are repeating our mistakes again. We put innocent people in camps because of racism, and now we're doing it again. When is enough enough? #RealHistory @Librarybelle
pickThe writing in this book was so original. It‘s a quick read, but the stories are going to stay with me for a long time. I‘m looking forward to reading more by Julie Otsuka.
I'm reading this graphic nonfiction novel for my #RealHistory book for April by George Takei, who was in a U.S. internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II as a child.
@Librarybelle
The hibiscus just happens to be blooming, and it is a plant I managed not to kill yet, so I wanted to show it off. It has nothing to do with the book.
Nothing finished last week. I did DNF “Leave No Trace“.
Reading the newest Craig Johnson book and loving it so far.
Next up is an ILL loan of Western poetry-really looking forward to this one!
I'm butting up against some due dates that are not renewable, so I need to get through these quickly. Thankfully, those books are fairly short that are coming up.
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pickGosh, what a read and in so few pages. This is the first I've read by her but won't be the last. It's taught me more about the Japanese internment in WW2 and the huge suspicious around them.
Removing character names really struck me as not depersonalisation but nameless people, as in the camps. The final chapter will stay with me for a while.
