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
Sometime last year, Ash at English Major's Junk Food and I started emailing each other about our desire to read more books focusing on the environment and sharing that with our readers. (Ash already does a podcast titled Green Reads with her fiance.) We realized that for all the tons of books we read, environmental books constitute just a tiny fraction. That's not because there is any scarcity of content, on the contrary, there's probably a deluge of information out there. Could it be because of too much information that we don't read much from this genre? Or because of the relatively lesser hype around such books? I've been hearing phrases like global warming, ecological disaster, increasing floods and droughts, ozone hole, disappearing glaciers and ice for years. What hasn't changed is the increasing frequency with which these phrases pop up around us. Consciously, we've tried to do our bit - increase our ecowareness, reduce energy wastage at homes and workplaces - to reduce our individual ecological footprint.
And so we came up with this idea - to read books focusing on environment and how we can strive to reduce the damage we are causing it. Waving pompoms and letting the trumpet blare, here we bring to you - LEIF READS!
So what is this feature about? In a nutshell, Ash and I will read an environment-themed book each month and share our learnings with you. We'll be trying to stay with books that provide information on what the status quo is, and also books that give us tips and strategies about what we can do. Every Friday, one of us will share different aspects of the book with you. We'll also do a poll to get your take on what topics you'd love for us to cover. Accordingly, we'll choose our books for the next few months or so. The first poll will start on Sunday, so don't forget to stop by.
So there! We are so excited about this, and hope that you will also enjoy reading our posts. We would also love to hear back from you anytime!
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