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
Happy Earth Day, folks! Ideally on this day, people across the world take a minute to think about the impact our many actions have upon the world. You can choose to do anything at all today - spend an hour unplugged (disconnect all those appliances, your computers and maybe corner a sweet spot in your house with your books), convert someone in your life to actively rather than passively be more eco-aware, or you can choose to contribute online.
After a break of three weeks, Leif Reads has returned with our next book - Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting by Michael Perry. This time, we're doing something different and light. Rather than a purely technical book, we are reading a memoir - of a guy who returns to a rural life of farming and agriculture. I can't somehow fathom doing something like that - I am mostly a city person, but not a big-city person. I like the quiet suburban life but I can't imagine doing gardening or farming. Mainly because I never grew up in that kind of life. Besides, bugs frighten me. So reading this book is kind of refreshing - it's doable, but there are trade-offs. Besides, I have heard of a lot of people doing precisely that and come across many such memoirs (Novella Carpenter's Farm City, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver). This book is chosen not to start a mass boycott of cities and urban life (I like to overestimate my influence sometimes) but simply to learn what motivates such people and how we could do it, if we wanted to. Frankly, it's just to encourage farming/gardening (and not be scared of the wee bugs).
After a break of three weeks, Leif Reads has returned with our next book - Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting by Michael Perry. This time, we're doing something different and light. Rather than a purely technical book, we are reading a memoir - of a guy who returns to a rural life of farming and agriculture. I can't somehow fathom doing something like that - I am mostly a city person, but not a big-city person. I like the quiet suburban life but I can't imagine doing gardening or farming. Mainly because I never grew up in that kind of life. Besides, bugs frighten me. So reading this book is kind of refreshing - it's doable, but there are trade-offs. Besides, I have heard of a lot of people doing precisely that and come across many such memoirs (Novella Carpenter's Farm City, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver). This book is chosen not to start a mass boycott of cities and urban life (I like to overestimate my influence sometimes) but simply to learn what motivates such people and how we could do it, if we wanted to. Frankly, it's just to encourage farming/gardening (and not be scared of the wee bugs).
I can't wait to read this and discuss it. Ash has the first post up on her blog. Head on over there to check her post.
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