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...
Anyone excited about Fall? I keep peeping out my window every day hoping to see colors changing drastically. So far, it's just the odd leaf here and there, and a vast, vivid-green mass of trees standing haughtily about to greet me. I am however done with the heat. There is a reason I stay in Virginia, and that is because I hate the heat and can just handle a couple of months of it. Fall also hopefully means more time indoors and hence more reading. My August reading sucked, but I'm not surprised - I had too much going on, and I'm hoping to unplug this month.
Books of the month
Other Reads
On second thoughts, I did have a decent month. One of those lovely surprises.
Reviews posted
- Gingerbread Girl by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- In the Sea There are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda
- Yo! by Julia Alvarez
Other posts
- Abandoning a Book
- Where's that Elusive Reading Mojo?
- Geeking out over a Sci-Fi list
- New Reading Project - Blogger Recommends
Traveling with my books this year
Dominican Republic (Yo!) was a new hit last month. Plus, thanks to In the Sea There are Crocodiles, Afghanistan.
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