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...
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 guess I had a good week in books, considering what I received. After seeing The Map of True Places by Brunonia Barry almost everywhere, I was so glad to have won this on twitter thanks to Brain Candy BR. I also have Brunonia Barry's The Lace Reader, but didn't get to it yet. So that's two books by the same author. Need I any more motivation to pick one up?
I won Zeitoun by Dave Eggers at Nancy's 2010: A Year of Books. I have read many good reviews of this book and am now very curious about the protagonist - every one of the previews or reviews stops at how he disappears and then comes the question - Will he come back? Alright people - you have me curious. I want to know what happens now. Usually I don't like fiction that are based on some real tragedy, be it the 9/11 or Katrina or the tsunami. I almost hear the words "exploitation" and "money" and "advantage" churning in my head. So I hope that none of that steps into my head when I pick this one up, since I really am interested.I won this galley at a giveaway I signed up for two months ago and forgot about.
I didn't even read Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick, nor did I have plans to, so I'm not sure why I requested this galley. Still, I'll make an attempt to read both books, and if I fail, I'll put up a giveaway. I'm sure there will be takers for Crescendo. I thought Hush, Hush was less than 200 pages - I could have sworn about reading it somewhere. But apparently it is almost 400 pages, as is this one.
I received this one from Random House via TLCBookTours. Finny by Justin Kramon has a really delightful synopsis about a young girl's foray into adulthood. Also, I don't remember reading a book with banana peel-yellow cover, so I'm attracted to that too.
Over lunch on Saturday with three other bloggers, Kathy brought three books to the "party" for us to choose from, and boy, did we have fun! So this is what I chose, A Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer - the moment I read World War 2 somewhere in the synopsis, I knew the one I'll pick up. Plus that cover - doesn't it make you think of one of those classy movies with hatted ladies and well-dressed gentlemen?Have you read any of these books?
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Here's my MM:
http://laurelrainsnowcreations.blogspot.com/2010/07/monday-mailbox.html
Happy reading!
I still have "A Lace Reader" by Brunonina Barry in my TBR -- I should read that one before reading her new one!
Happy reading!