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
This meme was originally hosted by Marcia @ The Printed Page. It goes on tour beginning August '10 and is hosted this month by Chick Loves Lit. 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 missed doing this for the last two weeks, so there are quite a few books waiting to get on this post. Instead of putting all of them together, I will break the post and put up the rest next week. Russell Wiley is out to Lunch by Richard Hine came to me from Goldberg McDuffie Communications. I have to say that I am in love with this cover. It's glossy and very attractive that the moment I tore open the package I wanted to read it. Plus, it is office-themed. It is about Russell Wiley whose career and marriage are on the rocks, and how he attempts to save his personal and professional lives. Makes you want to read too right?
Tanya Egan Gibson's How to Buy a Love of Reading came to me courtesy of Plume. I first saw this book on a blog, and found it a fascinating idea. Words are Carley Wells' enemy. This book is about her transition from an indifference towards books to a fascination with reading. I haven't come across such converts in real life, though I've heard aplenty of them. It will be interesting to read of such a person.
Travelogues can make for great reading especially if they come with a potpourri of lessons learnt. And no, I don't mean the preach-style books, but something that results in a self-rediscovery would be wonderful. I've been curious about how much travel can change people. I've not read Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, but it's one on my TBR. A similar-themed book, Todos Santos by Deborah Clearman came to me from Little Bird. It follows Catherine Barnes, who travels to Guatemala with her son after finding out that her professor husband has been interacting with his students in more ways than as a teacher. She then travels to the village, Todos Santos and in the middle of violence and tensions, she begins to find herself.
I first got hooked with this book when Juju @ Tales of Whimsy reviewed it. She had a contest running and I was really glad to have won a copy of Either You're in or You're in the way by Logan and Noah Miller. This book follows the touching story of the twin brothers accomplishing the impossible - making a feature film with no experience, money or contacts. Success stories like that always intrigue me. I like seeing the impossible becoming reality. I always have this desire to chant LOST's John Locke's dialogue "You can't tell me what I can't do".Have you read any of these books?
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2. Thanks for the shout out :)
3. I hope you love it. They are SO cool.
4. *high five* for the Locke reference.
Happy Monday!