Published : 2021 || Format : print || Location : Colombia ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ What was it about the country that kept everyone hostage to its fantasy? The previous month, on its own soil, an American man went to his job at a plant and gunned down fourteen coworkers, and last spring alone there were four different school shootings. A nation at war with itself, yet people still spoke of it as some kind of paradise.. Thoughts : Infinite Country follows two characters - young Talia, who at the beginning of this book, escapes a girl’s reform school in North Colombia so that she can make her previously booked flight to the US. Before she can do that, she needs to travel many miles to reach her father and get her ticket to the rest of her family. As we follow Talia’s treacherous journey south, we learn about how she ended up in the reform school in the first place and why half her family resides in the US. Infinite Country tells the story of her family through the other protagonist, El
I guess I had a pretty good month, considering I had just started blogging, and struggled initially to manage time between reading, blogging and taming my ever monstrous Google Reader. Having spent the first half of the month on vacation, I read just 2 books then. The 2nd half of the month was more productive with about 7 books, which is more than I've ever read in 15 days, since starting my graduate studies. I doubt it's going to get better in the next couple of months, as things are heating up on all ends, and with LOST starting this week, I have to - HAVE TO - read all the discussions on that topic as well! So here's the reading I got done this month: Haunted Ground by Erin Hart ( 4 cocktails ) Night Runner by Max Turner ( 1 cocktail ) Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi ( 4 cocktails ) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath ( 4 cocktails ) Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster ( 5 cocktails ) Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger ( 4 cocktails ) City of Bones by C