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
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this meme asks you what great books did you hear about/discover this
past week? Every week, I post three selections, and choose one among
them as my pick to read, should I choose among the three books.
Welcome the scariest month of the year!
I love my choices this week! All three are titles I really want to read, so it's exciting to put them up today. Given a chance, I will read all three. My top pick is a book that I found thanks to Banned Books week. Gotta love this celebration of those books-that-shall-not-be-read.
I love my choices this week! All three are titles I really want to read, so it's exciting to put them up today. Given a chance, I will read all three. My top pick is a book that I found thanks to Banned Books week. Gotta love this celebration of those books-that-shall-not-be-read.
The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell
My top pick is this amazing book about a teacher and teens who want to change themselves and the world. I spotted this at Sheila's blog. Do you remember the book and movie, To Sir, With Love? I remember sitting through the movie in English class, and being absolutely bowled over by it that I ran to grab the book from the library. This book in so many ways reminded me of that book. Erin Gruwell is a new teacher given the reins of a class of students called the "unteachables". Doesn't it always bring a smile to your face when someone mentions how they were influenced by your good advice and fared better? I admit I will jump up in joy - both for that person and for my apparent "strong advisory" talents. I also love reading books about characters who go from the absolute bottoms to total character absolution. This book shows all the promise of being humanity-focused.
As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of "unteachable, at-risk" students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature, and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust — only to be met by uncomprehending looks. So she and her students, using the treasured books Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo as their guides, undertook a life-changing, eye-opening, spirit-raising odyssey against intolerance and misunderstanding. They learned to see the parallels in these books to their own lives, recording their thoughts and feelings in diaries and dubbing themselves the "Freedom Writers" in homage to the civil rights activists "The Freedom Riders". |
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
After reading and loving Still Alice (especially reading it from the perspective of a victim), I can't wait to see what Lisa Genova comes up with next.
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Panopticon by David Bajo
Unbridled Books has some awesome books in its catalog. I already have many others in my TBR, and to add to that, this one is also on the wishlist.
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Have a great weekend.
Happy weekend darling!
Happy October 1st :)
Great finds Aths