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 woke up today morning to the thought that I'm finally going to post my first Sunday Salon of the year. Then I remembered that it's Jan 22nd today. Where did this month go? After the very hectic weeks that I had over the last month, I have the sensation of time having stopped for everyone while things settle down for me. It's strange realizing that not only have I gone many days without reading much, rather the first month of 2012 is almost over as well. Weird!
Anyways, since I have a month's worth of Sunday Salon-ish thoughts, I'm going to simply write down whatever comes to my mind.
Anyways, since I have a month's worth of Sunday Salon-ish thoughts, I'm going to simply write down whatever comes to my mind.
- I completed my two years of blogging a month ago! I've missed my blogiversary twice already now - since it always comes during the winter vacation, I seem to always be missing it.
- My google reader is beginning to look tamed. One of the last things I did before I disappeared on my vacation was to really organize my reader according to how it makes sense to me. I'm glad I did that because catching up on blogs was far easier and much less overwhelming now than it usually used to be even after a week off. After two years of blogging, it feels great to have a balance on this front.
- During my month lurking around blogs (yes, I admit to still having been reading blogs when I was busy, but no, I didn't have the time or feel the compulsion to leave comments simply because it was busy), something I noticed was how many of you were trying to kick in the new year with that one special read. If I remember correctly, it was Sheila at Book Journey who introduced the idea, and I so wanted to do the same, preferably start with a reread of the Harry Potter series, but that didn't happen. Instead, I started 2012 with a book about a mentally ill woman, who was seeing things in wallpaper patterns, and whose secluded life in an upstairs room in a mansion was no fun, and whose actions in the climax left me feeling very disturbed. I wonder what my book choice tells about me?
- My husband and I are still in India - my visa ran into some administrative roadblock that typically takes its own sweet time to get resolved. Although, we're relishing the extra unplanned time at home that this has brought me, being away from life as I know it for this long is no fun either. Worse, all my books are in the US - horrors! I just hope all my mail (especially any books) are being kept safely at the leasing office or the post office.
- I just started reading Tayari Jones' Silver Sparrow today. I had been yearning to read this one since it was released last year, and was glad to see it on the Indie Lit Awards shortlist. My physical copy is in the US, so I had to borrow an ebook from my library to get started on the awards reading.
- Kim @ Sophisticated Darkness recently shared an essay she read at The Bygone Bureau, called In the Land of the Non-Reader, which I liked. I particularly enjoyed this quote in the book, because it spoke for me.
- Anyone planning to read the books listed in the 2012 Tournament of Books? There are a number of them there that I want to read and Ann Patchett's State of Wonder is the only one I've read. I'm tempted to read some others before the tournament, but I don't really need another reading project or plan. Still, last year, I would never have entertained the idea of doing such a reading, since by now, I would already have lists of books that needed to be read. I'm really relishing my affair with serendipity.
...when I was a reader, it often troubled me when friends claimed that they had no time to read. Was it possible that their lives were so full of wonders that they could not spend five minutes here or there to read? How was it that my life, in comparison, seemed to offer so many chunks of reading time throughout the day? A train ride, a late-night break, and an office wait. Through marriage, babies, graduate schools, and new jobs, I always found time to read for pleasure.
Comments
I hope your enjoying your extended vacation!
Congratulations on getting married!
I am right there with you on how time flies. January is almost over and I am very very busy which makes me a bit crazed. I like to ease into a year, not be thrown into it.
Shelleyrae @ Book'd Out
Anyways, I just got the news now that my visa has been cleared. Phew! Finally!
I want to read, so I'll give it a swing.
What I did to my Reader is set up some folders. There are a few bloggers I visit every day or every other day. I have them in a folder named like (b0-favs). The number is so that it gets listed first in the Reader and I don't have to go hunting for it. Then there's one folder for people I visit once every few days. And then another folder for all my bookish news, etc. I figured rather than categorizing the feeds by their type, might as well categorize based on how often I visit each.