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...
I had a great November in reading. Not so much in blogging. It appears as if whatever time I didn't or couldn't spend on blogging ended up being used as reading time. I hadn't read more than 8 books in a month since April - I'm not sure how I managed 9 books in November, since it was crazy busy, but the two long train trips probably helped there. Better still, I found it really hard to decide which the best books of the month were. I kept going back and forth between 5 of them! The bad news (for me) is that I am many reviews down in the pit!
Books of the months
Notable Mentions
(As if I'm giving away Oscar awards!)
Other Reads
Reviews posted
- Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch
- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (My September Blogger Recommend, which I loved)
- Green River Killer by Jonathan Case and Jeff Jensen
- Repeat it Today with Tears by Anne Peile
- The Secret of Lies by Barbara Forte Abate
Other posts
- Blogger Recommends - October Finds
- 'Tis the Season of Challenges
- About my vacation in 10 days
- My Thanksgiving week
- 2011 books I wish I had read
Traveling with my books this year
So far this year, 30 of the locations in the books I read have been in the US, while 33 have been non-US. Not exactly the ratio I was hoping for, but I'm not disappointed. Next year though, I'm hoping to include more literature from non-US countries, but that will also require that I accept even less ARCs, since most of the ARCs I receive are set in the US.
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Comments
I hope December is as good a reading month for you!
Shelleyrae @ Book'd Out