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 is a weekly event initially hosted by J. Kaye at J. Kaye's Book Blog, now by Sheila @ One Persons Journey through a world of Books, to celebrate what you are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week.
Books completed
Zilch! And it's so funny because I joined a readathon just to finish my current reads. I mostly got bogged with The Passage, because I couldn't put it down. Then I got house-cleaning (you won't believe how messy I had been, and that always interferes with my concentration). Then my best friend, Piyush, came for the weekend, and we watched two movies - Wall Street (big nod for that!) and Eat, Pray, Love (ugh, I yawned through this movie). I spent most of second half of Sunday cleaning up my reader, so I feel much better about this week because I did take care of everything that had been keeping me from reading. Big Phew for that!
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Books on my nightstand
My stack for this week looks same as last week, except for the page count of two of them.
The Passage by Justin Cronin:
Wow, I'm halfway into it! That makes me feel totally awesome! I do have a lot on my head right now about this book, and did I say that the six-year old is creepy? That's creeeeeepy! I am putting this book down this week, because I really want to read something else. So, let's see how that goes, shall we?
Stealing Lumby by Gail Fraser:
I'm having a little more trouble than usual getting into this book. It's funny and delightful, but I think it was not the book I should have read now. I just have a few pages to go, so I'm going ahead and completing it.
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert:
I had hoped to start this last week, oh well. It's a new week, and hopefully I'm starting this one tomorrow.
Comments
have a great week!
If you slept through the Eat, Pray, Love movie, I'm thinking the book will be even more of a snooze.
Here's my Monday:
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I also love Sue Monk Kidd's books. Her memoir Dance of the Dissident Daughter is one of my favorites.
I think The Passage looks very good.
Here's my list for the week:
http://debsbookbag.blogspot.com/2010/09/simply-marvelous-monday-40.html