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...
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I missed this meme last week during my sleep-deprived, still-recovering-from-the-awesome-DC-trip-fatigue break from blogging. There hasn't been much progress reading-wise though.
Books completed in the last week
The Four Ms. Bradwells by Meg Waite Clayton: A delightful book that ended up surprising me. Slow Death by Rubber Duck by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie: I'm so glad I read this. There's just so much I learned even if much of it was scary! Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb by George Rabasa: Before I finished this book, I was going to say hilarious, but in the end it was anything but. What a look into the mind of a disturbed guy! Coraline by Neil Gaiman: I read this because I was just plain curious about this book. Now I don't have to abashedly admit that I haven't read it.
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Leif Reads!
I have at least 7 new titles to review this month. I'm not sure how I can handle that many review titles, except by reading each description and ooh-ing over each one.
A Thread of Sky by Deanna Fei: I love books that focus on women and tell the story from their varied perspectives. This is another one of those and I can't wait to read it.
The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHency: This is another one of those books that look to be outside my usual reading zone, so I'm hoping to be surprised by it. I hadn't even heard of this one until I got it in the mail.
The Jack Bank by Glen Retief: The last I read about anything about or set in the Apartheid period in South Africa was in high school. So when I saw this one, I just had to read it. Besides, the synopsis sounds so enticing that I may just be picking this one first to read between these three.
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