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!
One of the books I'm reading right now is Joan Frank's Make it Stay. The author is new to me and the book is really short. (Short books are really deceptive - they usually take twice as long to read as a bigger book.) The events in the book are supposed to be set within the span of an evening - and a lot of surprising revelations involving 5 people are expected to be made. I find myself drawn a lot to books like these - by the time you are done, you feel like you've read a saga, but in fact, you've only sat through a day or night in the lives of the characters. (On a side note, I didn't notice until now that it's broken glass on the cover!)
Which pages were turned...
I'm also reading Neal Shusterman's Unwind, and can I just say how glad I am that I finally got to this book?These are the abysmal number of books I finished in the last month:
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness...And other news
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You do seem to have a neck for the short books that leave a great impact, wow. I need to catch up on some reviews.
Your reading list so far for this months is all dystopia - good fun! I've read 15 books so far this month...
Ahhh! at least you are reading something... I am not doing any reading at all :)