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...
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.
Jack knew this much about the letters because he paid a detective to follow his wife. The detective had reported no meetings, phone calls or email; no suspicious activity at all, except the letters. The detective did not report that Edie had taken to staring at him as she burned the letters, then grinding the ashes into the pavement with her shoe. Once she'd given him the Nazi salute. He had begun to dread following her.
~ Pg. 5, Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger.
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Here is my teaser: http://web.me.com/quirion/Bookaddict/Blog/Entries/2010/1/19_Teaser_Tuesday.html
Hope you enjoy the rest of it!
Here's mine
Here's mine.
Here's mine.
http://teawithmarce.blogspot.com/2010/01/teaser-tuesday-happiness-sold.html
My teaser this week is creepy but funny! Here's a link.
here's mine;
http://darlynandbooks.blogspot.com/2010/01/teaser-tuesdays-painted-house.html
Fan one! I need to read this.-Juju
Beth F, jlshall, Jennifer, dArLyN, Juju, I hope you all get to read it soon!
Michelle, Amy, Ash, Diane, thanks! :)
Lisa, I agree!
Andrea, I agree with the poor man bit! :)
MarceJ, sorry you wouldn't read another by her, I did like TTTW, but I'll reserve my judgment for this one.
Kaye, I agree, this book starts off well.
Susan, I hope to enjoy it too, though so far I am yet to see any of the TTTW's magic
My "headline" teaser is here.
longbrakeliving, I am so far! :)