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!
Right now, I am going through two books. I started Arcadia a couple of days ago, and since then I have come across the book a few times already in other blogs. They have been mostly raving, so I'm eager to see where this goes for me. Though, I should admit that I started it at the wrong time - when I was going to sleep, and Arcadia isn't a book you should start at such times unless you do want to be put to sleep.
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I'm also reading Catherine Ryan Hyde's When I Found You. I've been eager to read this one for a while, because the synopsis about an abandoned baby and the man who found the baby in the woods sounded interesting. Short Story of the week - In the Bed Department (click for my review) by Anne Enright.Since the last update, these are the books I read:
Dance Lessons by Áine Greaney Cross Currents by John Shors I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu Divergent by Veronica Roth My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf...And other news
Short Fiction: A Village After Dark by Kazuo Ishiguro Review: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Short Fiction: In the South by Salman Rushdie Review: First You Try Everything by Jane McCafferty Review: The Dispatcher by Ryan David Jahn Post hunger games mania
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