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
In spite of a slow first half in June, I did read quite a lot more during the second half. It's nice to end a month joyfully! I also got a nook this month and had an awesome weekend getaway to DC! I'm still doing 12 challenges (one perpetual, and one my own summer challenge), and I am finally coming to terms with the possibility that I will not complete all of them by the end of the year.
Other posts
Did you miss my chat with Claire Avery, author of Hidden Wives?
I also listed five of my recent intriguing bookish book-loving characters.
Yay for challenges I am acing at
- 100+ Reading Challenge: 52/100
- Support your Local Library Challenge: 30/50
- Flashback Reading Challenge: 5/9
- Women Unbound Challenge: 4/5
- A to Z Challenge: 35/52
- POC Challenge: 8/10
- Awesome Author Challenge: 2/10
- 451 Challenge: 1/7
- Original TBR Challenge: 4/12
- Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge: 3/10
- Summer Reading Challenge: 1/6
- Orange Prize Project: 0
June Stats
Number of books: 10
Number of pages read: 2828
Number of Audio Books: 1
Hours listened to (completed audio books only): 11 hours, 9 minutes
Zero Re-reads | 7 New-to-me authors | 2 Male authors | 8 Female authors
Comments
You had such a good June! Congrats! It may have started slow but you finished STRONG!
Here's to a great July!!
Congrats on being half way to 100! Great progress.
Felicia, I'm definitely glad I finished strong, else I might have slipped into one of those nasty ruts.
Molly, I get some kind of pleasure by keeping track of those stats. LOL! There were more, but I thought I was overdoing. ;-)
Care, so long as you have a good quality month, I guess it doesn't really matter how many you read. :)
Belle, thank you! It truly was!
Stacy, I love my nook! I enjoy cozying up to it. I need to get through my current review books, so that I can get to reading it more.
Diane, thank you! I'm glad that my June was better than my May.
Vasilly, I LOVED Still Alice most of all. It was so beautiful!