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...
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.
Happy Valentines Day to everyone who celebrates it! I hope cozy candlelit plans form some part of your day!
It doesn't look much like February is going to be a good reading month. Last week, I could barely look at a book or my blog, much less do anything else. My family is visiting, and most of the week was spent getting everyone settled. I'm hoping it gets better now, I seriously can't sit by if I have to read only as little as I did last week.
Books completed in the last week


News from over my blog

Books on my nightstand
I still have the same pile on my nightstand as last week. I read and finished a couple of other books instead, but not because my nightstand looked boring, more because of my busy week and also since I needed some shorter or faster reads due to my limited reading time.



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I am really considering trying Weird Sisters.
BTW: you really need to try Steinbeck, perhaps start with a sprae volume like Tortilla Flat or Of Mice and Men....both excellent.