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...
Sheila @ One Persons Journey through a world of Books wants to know what we're reading. I'm only too happy to oblige!
Another week of some good reading!
Books completed in the last week
Far to go by Alison Pick: This was a total WOW! You should check this one! The Long Goodbye by Meghan O'Rourke: This was a really wonderful and touching memoir about grief.
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Books on my nightstand
There are some exciting books on my stand this week, and I can't wait to get through them!
In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard: This is certainly one delightful novel about a 14-year old girl protagonist. In some ways, it reminds me of Finny, The Secret Life of Bees, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, and many other books with quirky young main characters who are funny and yet so innocent!
The Lost Girls by Amanda Pressner, Jennifer Baggett, and Holly Corbett: Ok, this is one HUGE book! Almost 550 pages, so it will be a miracle if I finish it in time for my review next week! But I've been so fascinated with stories of people dropping everything and going globe-trotting, so I can't wait to read this!
Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras: I couldn't find much background about this book, but I believe this was first released as a movie and then made into a book. At least the movie release date precedes the book's. Either ways, it sounds fascinating - set in Buenos Aires, from the perspective of a 10-year old, whose family is going into hiding.
Comments
Happy reading,
Jules
http://thegreatthegoodandthebad.blogspot.com/
I checked out your giveaway and sadly only US! But i will get a copy of that book as just read a great review and am chomping at the bit to get into it! Another PIE addition!
The Lost Girls is another book i want to read sounds like something i want to do but cannot bring myself to drop all responsibilities so i may have to live vicariously through the book! Plus it will be an addition to my chunkster challenge!
Have a great week Aths :D
I agree Kamchatka sounds fascinating and The Lost Girls sounds like fun !
Have a good week!
Lettie
http://aboveaveragebelowspecial-lettie.blogspot.com/
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A book based on Homerus' Odyssey, that I need to check out :)
I know what you mean about The Lost Girls. I would love to do something like that, but I don't think I could ever.
Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras looks interesting. I did not know about a graphic novel adaptation of The Odyssey- maybe I should read that since I could not read the original.