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
Let me put this question to you - what is your best part of reading a blog? Is it the memes or the reviews or the bookish topics? Or is it the anticipation of discovering a new book that you hadn't heard of, so that you can go add it to your wishlist? I'm sure it is a combination of all those features, but how often do we go pick up a book the moment you hear of it? Or if not the moment, then the very day itself or the next day? Of course, I'm assuming here that you had not heard of that book before. Now what if that book is out of that comfy zone you are in? Are you willing to get off the lazy couch and read something that's not your cup of tea? You got to be kidding me, right? With all the mountains of books to read - at your home, in your library hold list and in your virtual TBR (wherever it is that you catalog your reads) - each new book we add inevitably goes to the bottom of the list, but to the list it goes for sure!
So, although I have an Mt. Everest-sized TBR, which tripled over the past 9 months that I have been blogging (yeah, I'm pointing my finger at you all), I did once surprise myself and pick a book to read right after I read a review - a book that I had not heard of at all previously, a book that I would not have grabbed at had I seen it at the store or simply read the blurb at the back, a book I picked only because the blogger who recommended it to me did complete justice to it. This book wasn't exactly the kind I read either, so I doubt I would have read it if not for a recommendation!
I read this book in January - the month I started keeping reading lists (I stopped keeping readings lists months later, but that's a story for another day!) And then when I saw the review of this book on Aarti's blog, Booklust, I just had to go to the library and read it! I have looked forward to blogger recommendations ever since then. Even with books that I read, I have been able to predict whether a book will be a hit or miss for me simply by reading a blogger's recommendatrion, and that's the best part of reading blogs. Do you have a book that you picked solely on blogger recommendation?
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Daddy Longlegs sounds interesting - will keep my eye out for it.
Here is my BBAW: Unexpected Treasure post!
I remember this book - it DOES look fun.
Great post, there are many books I have bought or downloaded immediately from recommendations from bloggers, I agree you guys are the best for recommendation.
I have a few that I trust for sure and you are one of those. It is funny when it is out of your norm though, I think memoirs will be my new reads next year.
And then other times you find things that just look like fun, a momentary distraction from everyday life and you go for that! That's the case with Soul Mates, which is a romance novel involving a non-conventional relationship. And the two become folk heroes of sorts! Fun fluff.
I know this book is in your Friday post, but I have to admit I'm intrigued by the "Financial Life of Poets" (or whatever -- may have the title wrong!) you mentioned. That's outside the comfort zone, too, but I may give that a look!
Gautami, Amanda, I hope you do!
Kathy, it was really enjoyable!
Gwen, actually that was based on the book, but not true to the story. There's a 1919 movie that is exactly based on it.
Care, it sure was! When a blogger says those words, I just run and add it to my TBR. Those books never fail me.
Marce, I'm so honored that you trust my recommendations. I agree with you when I enjoy books outside my norm, I'm really surprised!
Liz, I love those books that look like fun! I tend to pick them when I see them reviewed at blogs, and this usually happens when I'm reading heavy stuff - so it happens pretty much all the time.