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...
Sheila @ Book Journey wants to know what we're reading. I'm only too happy to oblige!
Both What the Zhang Boys Know by Clifford Garstang and Things your Dog Doesn't Want you to Know by Hy Conrad and Jeff Johnson are for the TLC Book Tour, and I'm enjoying both. What the Zhang Boys Know is almost a short story collection, except each chapter is narrated by one among a group of inter-related people. The latter is as delightful as the cover and title seem to suggest. The husband and I had quite a chuckle from some stories, because we could see ourselves in some of them easily. I'm also rereading the first Harry Potter book for the umpteenth time, because fall always makes me want to read the series.
Which pages were turned...
Over the last two weeks, I finished the following books:
The Secret Keeper by Mitali Perkins: I didn't enjoy this as much as I hoped to, but it was fast-paced and occasionally intriguing.
Gathering of Waters by Bernice L. McFadden: I enjoyed this book a lot - not as much as her previous Sugar and Glorious, but still a lot.
How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran: Moran is hilarious in this book! I'm glad to have finally read this.
...And other news
Review: Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
Review: My Friend Dahmer (Derf Backderf) and When I Found You (Catherine Ryan Hyde)
Review: Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Review: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Happy reading! The Secret Keeper by Mitali Perkins: I didn't enjoy this as much as I hoped to, but it was fast-paced and occasionally intriguing. Gathering of Waters by Bernice L. McFadden: I enjoyed this book a lot - not as much as her previous Sugar and Glorious, but still a lot. How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran: Moran is hilarious in this book! I'm glad to have finally read this....And other news
Review: Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli Review: My Friend Dahmer (Derf Backderf) and When I Found You (Catherine Ryan Hyde) Review: Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie Review: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Have a great week.
you have some interesting books listed - Spinelli is a great writer, we have a lot of his books in the school library.
Have a great reading week
Mardel of Rabid Reader
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Isn't it wild all the things dogs see?
I often wonder what they will say to me if it's true that dogs go to heaven and I will see them up there.
I always think of Harry Potter during the fall as well, probably because it's sorting hat time!
~ Crystal @ I Totally Paused!