I can't say that history was my favourite subject in school, but I liked it. Sometimes more, sometimes a little less, depending on the theme. When picking up books to read I never intentionally go to the department with history novels, but when I read one that also includes some history themes I usually enjoy it. I'm even happier when I find out something that I didn't know before and it intrigues me so when I finish the book I make some additional researches about the theme in the book, This happened with the book The Buddha in the Attic.
Between the first and second world wars a group of young, non-English-speaking Japanese women travelled by boat to America. They were picture brides, clutching photos of husbands-to-be whom they had yet to meet. Julie Otsuka tells their extraordinary, heartbreaking story in this spellbinding and poetic account of strangers lost and alone in a new and deeply foreign land.
The book is written in the personal plural form which is interesting, but also as a reader you lose a little bit of emotional investment in the story, since you can't get so emotionally attached to a single character. But I understand the decision to write in plural, because like this you have multiple stories in one, and not just the story of one single person.
There is one thing I found about in history when at university. That history is written by the victors and what you learn in school is just one part of history, but there is never just one side of history. And there are stories that we never hear of. Women and lower class are almost never mentioned in high school history textbooks and that's why I liked my studies at university, because I did research and learn also the other, somehow forgotten parts of our history (didn't study history though). And this is why I love the books like The Buddha in the Attic, because I never stop learning.
On my nails there is green. I'm celebrating that spring has arrived :) What I like of winter is snow, but there was none, so welcome spring, I missed you. The polish is from (discontinued) Essence with the name Beijos de Brazil. Two easily applied coats, nothing to complain about.
Have a great day ;)
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