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Infinite Country by Patricia Engel | Thoughts

   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...

Look at what just arrived! - May 24, 2010

mailboxmonday 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).

I just got one book this week, but it's one that I've been looking forward to.


Based upon Availability by Alix Strauss arrived, courtesy of TLC Book Tours. (About "eight seemingly ordinary women", in "Manhattan's Four Seasons Hotel", going through "their darkest moments as they grapple with family, sex, power, love, and death".) Looks like there is plenty of characterization!


Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva @ A Striped Armchair and Marg @ Reading Adventures that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library.

You know how a visit to the library usually is? You walk in, and there is this big stack right in the front, screaming "New Arrivals". Now, you probably already made up your mind on what you want to pick up - maybe some holds, maybe that book which you've always been wanting to read. But how do you turn your head away when these gleaming covers out front fight for your attention?

So last week, in the middle of a reading funk, I went to the library to stare at those new covers and pick one. There were so many books out there, which I wanted to read, but in the end, only took one book - One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. The other book I picked is Still Alice by Lisa Genova, which is a referral by a friend in Goodreads.


What do you think of any of these books?

Comments

Carina said…
Based On Availability looks interesting. :-)
Cathy said…
All three look good. Happy Reading!
Dazzling Mage said…
Ooh, great books this week!

Happy reading. =)
Anonymous said…
Based on Availability looks really really interesting. I hope you enjoy it. Here's my mailbox

http://bookventuresbookclub.blogspot.com/2010/05/mailbox-monday_24.html
DCMetroreader said…
Based upon Availability sounds like a good one -- hope you enjoy it!
Based Upon Availabilty sounds super interesting!
Alayne said…
I'll be adding Based Upon Availability to the TBR. Happy reading! My mailbox is at The Crowded Leaf.
Oh, Based on Availability sounds terrific! I want it.

Here is my MM list on Rose City Reader.
Staci said…
Still Alice is a wonderful book. It will move you beyond words!!! Based upon Availability sounds great too!! Enjoy!