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
This meme is hosted by Marcia @ The Printed Page. It is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week (checked out library books don’t count, eBooks & audio books do).
Purchased Books
- The Client by John Grisham
- Open Season by Linda Howard
- Copycat by Erica Spindler
- Night Sins by Tami Hoag
- Magic Hour by Susan Isaacs
- Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
- The Survivors Club by Lisa Gardner
- Lake News by Barbara Delinsky
- The Switch by Sandra Brown
I did go a little crazy when my cousin took me to a local bookstore. Mmm.. Racks and racks of books, how do you just walk out without buying a single book. Now, I intended to buy only two or three, max five. But eventually, I took out 9! Now I need to figure out a way to take these with me to VA, without exceeding my baggage limit. LOL!
See what others have bought over the last week!
Comments
Have a great week!
Here is mine
http://teawithmarce.blogspot.com/2010/01/mailbox-monday.html
Kristen, hard to ignore the books, right?
bermudaonion, that makes me less guilty, LOL! Thanks!
Mary, Alayne, and MarceJ, thanks! :-)
Bookstores are dangerous!! LOL
Kara, waiting to see your list of books! :)