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
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My finds
I added a LOT of books this past week. But I'll post just a few.
Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Five months ago, Valerie Leftman's boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on
their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently
saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings
because of the list she helped create. A list of people and things she
and Nick hated. The list he used to pick his targets.
Now, after a summer of seclusion, Val is forced to confront her guilt as she returns to school to complete her senior year. Haunted by the memory of the boyfriend she still loves and navigating rocky relationships with her family, former friends and the girl whose life she saved, Val must come to grips with the tragedy that took place and her role in it, in order to make amends and move on with her life .
Now, after a summer of seclusion, Val is forced to confront her guilt as she returns to school to complete her senior year. Haunted by the memory of the boyfriend she still loves and navigating rocky relationships with her family, former friends and the girl whose life she saved, Val must come to grips with the tragedy that took place and her role in it, in order to make amends and move on with her life .
It starts with a question, a simple favor asked of a husband by his
wife on an afternoon chilled by the Baltic wind while both are painting
in their studio. Her portrait model has canceled, and would he mind
slipping into women's shoes and stockings for a few moments so that she
can finish the painting on time? "Of course," he answers, "Anything at
all." With that, one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of
the twentieth century begins." "Inspired by the true story of Danish
painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife; this tender
portrait of a marriage asks: What do you do when someone you love wants
to change? Einar dresses more and more as Lili - the name given to her
by Greta - and what started off as a game becomes a way of life for
Greta and Einar. With Lili as her muse, Greta's paintings begin to
flourish. A French art dealer spots her work and the couple moves to
Paris for the sake of Greta's career. In the permissive air of Paris
between the wars, Lili is liberated and increasingly becomes Greta's
companion on public outings. As Einar fades into memory they realize
that a choice must be made: Lili or Einar. Greta finds a
surgeon-psychologist at the Dresden Municipal Women's Clinic, and Einar
travels to Germany to become, once and for all, Lili Elbe.
Sixteen-year-old Hailey Tarbell can’t wait for the day she’ll leave
Gypsum, Missouri, far behind, taking only four-year-old Chub, the
developmentally-delayed little boy her cruel drug-dealing grandmother
fosters for the state money. But when a freak accident in gym class
leaves a girl in critical condition, Hailey feels drawn to lay her
hands on the injured girl and an astonishing healing takes place.
Before Hailey can understand her new powers, a beautiful stranger shows
up…just in time to save her and Chub from hired killers. A desperate
race begins, with Hailey as the ultimate prize: there are those who
will stop at nothing to harness her gifts to create an undefeatable
army of the undead. Now it is up to Hailey and a small but determined
family of healers to stand up to the unbelievable and face the
unthinkable.
Grace Descanso was going to be a pediatric heart surgeon---she was a
brilliant up-and-comer with a bright future in a heartbreaking,
innovative field. Then she took two months off to work in a clinic in
Guatemala, and something happened there that nearly destroyed her. She
won’t talk about why, but she quit medicine and nearly killed herself
with drink. Finally, inch by inch, she pulled it all together for her
new baby girl. Now, five years later, though she’s sworn off practicing
as a doctor, Grace is using her science background as a crime scene
tech in San Diego and going to AA meetings, scraping by and living to
be a mom to five-year-old Katie.
Everything falls apart again when in the middle of processing a crime scene Grace shoots a madman after he’s killed two of her colleagues and after he’s called her by name, in a bizarre kind of warning, about someone he called “the Spikeman.” A day later, her daughter is kidnapped right out from under her, and instead of a ransom note, the kidnapper sends her on a harrowing twenty-four-hour scavenger hunt, laying out clues and giving out deadlines, leading her carefully, terrifyingly closer to Katie---and to him.
Everything falls apart again when in the middle of processing a crime scene Grace shoots a madman after he’s killed two of her colleagues and after he’s called her by name, in a bizarre kind of warning, about someone he called “the Spikeman.” A day later, her daughter is kidnapped right out from under her, and instead of a ransom note, the kidnapper sends her on a harrowing twenty-four-hour scavenger hunt, laying out clues and giving out deadlines, leading her carefully, terrifyingly closer to Katie---and to him.
Comments
Alayne, Cat, thanks! :)
bermudaonion, I've been hearing about the book a lot lately too!
Juju, I agree!
MarceJ, I'm with you on that!
Alyce, that books sounds interesting, doesn't it?
I have an award for you at my blog!
Jennifer, I agree Hate List and The Timer Game definitely sounds like one of those intense topics!