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
I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that one other reason I love this last month of a year is just to look at all the wonderful challenges being hosted. They really endear to the list-obsessed side of me although I rarely complete any of the lists. Looking at the new challenges also save me from going through the ICompletedAnotherChallenge posts that keep popping up all over the blogosphere. (My 2010 stats are that miserable!) Anyways, I had a lot of fun choosing among the tons of amazing challenges for 2011; this time, though, I decided to be more practical - to take on a challenge that I would have fun doing, and to drop out of one if it begins to feel like work. There - I just took my first (and probably only) 2011 resolution. So, without any more meaningless rambling, let me start listing them, shall I? One challenge that I signed up for in 2010 but never got to doing is the Orange Prize Project , which luckily/unluckily for me, is perpetual. There are some really amaz