I've read about 6 or 7 books since I got my Nook this Christmas. That's all...
Recently I downloaded "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jamie Ford. It was on the B&N recommended list and turned out to be a really great story. I mostly like to read fiction novels and every once in awhile I come across a fictitious story that will have some historical truth to it. The story takes place in the US during World War II and focuses a lot on our treatment of the Japanese American citizens during the war. In history classes I feel like you learn "Japanese people were sent to internment camps" but they never go into depth over it so I never really thought about what that must have been like. It's really sad and makes me wonder what my stance would have been had I been living back then. Would I have been scared like most people who were satisfied by having the Japanese americans round up and sent to internment camps?...or would I have realized how wrong that was? I don't want to give too much of the book away but it was really good and I would definitely recommend it.
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