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
Sheila @ Book Journey wants to know what we're reading. I'm only too happy to oblige!
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I finished reading Tayari Jones' Silver Sparrow, my second of the Indie Lit Awards reads. I am looking forward to talking about it, once the awards are announced. I'm also halfway through Lynn Sheene's The Last Time I Saw Paris and Mary Ann Shaffer's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Right - that makes it three books going at a time - book polygamy's in full swing. The Guernsey Literary, which I'm reading at work is pretty entertaining, making me wonder why it took me so long to pick it. As part of my current goal to read more short stories, I read another one recently - A Moment of Wrong Thinking by Lawrence Block....And other news
Review: Hell-Heaven by Jhumpa Lahiri (Short story) Review: The Silent Land by Graham Joyce Review: The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka Oh, and for Hunger Games' fans: My brother (and fellow fan) just shared with me this awesome map of the Panem courtesy io9 - looks like a good chunk of North America is in the water or bombed off - my town just about made it into District 12, barely.
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My daughter's homework requires reading out loud to me. Come see what she and I read together. I also got some other great books finished on my own time.
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My Monday Memes post
http://mustreadfaster.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-are-you-reading-monday-5.html
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Tasha @ A Trillian Books xxx