so-so3✨ After Pearl Harbor, Adam and his family move to California where his mom and him start working. Adam receives a letter from his friend Davi from Hawaii about his family being taken because they were born in Japan. This book highlights Japanese internment camps that Adam visits at one point. It also shows how Adam is growing and becoming the man he needs to during this timeframe. #SeriesLove
pickSet in Sri Lanka we follow our protagonist Sashi from 1981 to 2009. She's sixteen when we met her, she has 4 brothers and the civil war between the Tamils and Sinhalese is brewing.
This book is brutal and unflinching as you'd expect war to be. The fact this is so recent, and still bubbling away makes this an important read.
Five stars. I couldn't look away.
I am reading this one now about Japanese American soldiers in Europe during the big war, while their families were interned in camps back home!
The first 24 hours of the invasion will be decisive… for the Allies, as well as their opponents, it will be the longest day.
pickI highly recommend this book. It is more a bio of one mans career as a Navy SEAL. Through all its stages. A career that included the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Absent is the self-righteous patriotism that can be prevalent today. He approaches his story as a professional. Just telling his story without trying to drive home a political opinion. An inspiring story and a look into the real world of the Navy SEALs.
The life journey of a young soldier in World War I, based on the author's experiences.
The book chillingly portrays the contrast between youth and the horrors of war.
The blood, shock, complex trauma, and how it takes over one‘s worldview after the war (PTSD) are conveyed with such precision and simplicity.
A masterpiece!
pickAfter plodding through Balzac's discourse on the terrain of the Loire Valley, I thought I would change things up and tackle a book in which...the landscape factors heavily. 🤣 Stylistically, the two couldn't be more different, though. This one is pure kinesthetics, spare and propulsive. Two prisoners of war make a break from their captors, and we spend time ping-ponging between their POVs as they strategize how to evade recapture.
