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...
By the end of April, I didn't want to read at all. I felt tired of all the reading I did in April, and paid for it in May. Not that I'm complaining for the time-off, because that break truly helped me think about my reading and how I wanted to explore books for the rest of the year. By the middle of May, I read what I wanted to - which was mostly non-ARCs. So I do have a pile of that to tackle now. On the plus side, I've never been more eager to read than I am now. I've been randomly choosing among the books in my pile for the month, sometimes returning to a book only after a few days. Serendipity is really good.
Books of the month
Other Reads
Reviews posted
- In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard
- The Coffins of Little Hope by Timothy Schaffert
- The Lost Girls by Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett, Amanda Pressner
- Some quick reviews: Coraline, Kira-Kira, Wherever Nina Lies
- The London Train by Tessa Hadley
Leif Reads
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Traveling with my books this year
Only one new addition this month - Denmark. I had already been to Vietnam and Poland through books I read previously. But this time, the perspective was slightly different and that made for some fun reading.
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