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
- 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 Cassandra Clare (3 cocktails)
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (5 cocktails)
- Say you're one of them by Uwem Akpan (3 cocktails)
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (5 cocktails)
I also managed to make a good dent on a few of the challenges I am doing this year.
Challenges completed: 0/12
- 100+ Reading Challenge: 9/100
- Awesome Author Challenge: 0/10
- Support your Local Library Challenge: 5/50
- Flashback Reading Challenge: 0/9
- Audio Book Challenge: 1/12
- 451 Challenge: 1/7
- Women Unbound Challenge: 2/5
- A to Z Challenge: 15/52
- Original TBR Challenge: 2/12
- What's in a name? 3 Challenge: 0/6
- Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge: 1/10
- POC Challenge: 2/10
January Stats
Number of books: 9
Number of pages read: 2788
Number of Audio Books: 1
Hours listened to (completed audio books only): 2 hours 39 minutes
Re-reads: 0
New-to-me authors: 6
Male authors: 3
Female authors: 6
Book cleared from my physical shelf: 4
Books added to my physical shelf: 13
Number of books added anew to my TBR this month: 140 (O... M... G... That at least proves I've been visiting blogs more often than reading this month!)
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bermudaonion, I guess only the first month is that good ;-) Go to school and still manage to read. There is usually a larger number of students walking with fiction books in their hand in the first month back to school. But after that, those books morph to course text books. :(