Having completed reading three books recently, I'm compelled to comment on and recommend them.

Dan Brown's new book, "The Lost Symbol", was quite the thriller with a twisty conclusion. There was a lot of interesting information about The Masons. If you read it, it helps if you've visited Washington D.C.

"Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet", by Jamie Ford made a grown man cry. Set in Seattle, and jumping back and forth over 40 years from the early 1940's to the 80s, this novel is a modern day Romeo and Juliet love story between American born Chinese and Japanese boy and girl. I REALLY enjoyed the story and the writing. Find it.

And the last book is "The Long Walk", a reissue of a true story of 7 men and one young girl escaping a Siberian prison work camp in 1941. They walked south 4000 miles to their freedom in most inhospitable conditions. The author was escapee Slavomir Rawicz, a Pole. I couldn't put it down.
I'm going to google the survivors to see whatever happened to them.

It's off to the library today for more good reading.