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
I'm finally getting some consistency in my reading. After months of mega highs and ultra lows, it's nice to have a string of delightful reads, and not want to run to guilt-pleasure titles to keep the reading mood on. It also felt good not to read or blog every day. Maybe it's the summer. Or the fact that everyone else is blaming on the summer.
Books of the month
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Reviews posted
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (Book n Movie review)
- South of Superior by Ellen Airgood
- The Sonderberg Case by Elie Wiesel (WOW)
- The Fates will Find their Way by Hannah Pittard
- Vietnamerica by GB Tran
- The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair
Traveling with my books this year
One new place this month - Amazonas in Brazil, and that marks my first step into South America this year. Took a long while coming, but a totally worthy book to take me there!
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