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...
I'm typing up this post late Saturday night because the rest of the family (read husband, his brother and our fathers) are busy drilling holes in the house to set up our home theater system. Since I can be prone to the enlarged-eyeball-sickness and panicky-heartbeat-syndrome when I see things like holes in the wall and hear loud sounds, I am staying in the home office reading books and blog posts.
Lately, I've been thinking about my reading plans for 2013. Or rather my intention not to have any plans. Last couple of years, I joined a few challenges, but never completed any. Being a heavy mood-reader, my reading tastes change rapidly over even a month, making it hard to want to read a title I always wanted to read until a month ago. Sometimes, all I want to read are cookbooks or home design journals.
But I still like to have some plan, some structure or direction for my reading. My big mantra lately has been declutter. It started when I began to pack before my move to the new place, but I've been applying it to even my online junk - the newsletters I no longer read and automatically delete, the many emails that come brandishing a 10% coupon, the many feeds in my Google Reader that I overlook without a second thought. The less stuff, the better.
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Of course, that doesn't apply to books. The more books, the better. While I don't have too many books, it's still a lot, considering I haven't read a good chunk of them. I love the idea that I have many unread books at home - it's like having a home library but I should probably make an attempt to read more of them. When I started shelving my books, I decided to use a shelf only for books I will regret not reading on my deathbed (talk about morbid incentives). I wanted to keep the number of books on the minimum side but I am not sure I really succeeded. But whatever the case may be, I hope the above shelf slims down over the next year.
And that, I hope is my only resolution for 2013. More importantly, I hope it doesn't end up joining the countless other challenges that went up in smoke.
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I need to declutter some as well as get rid of some books. It's painful for me.
Tanya Patrice
Girlxoxo.com
I have Brain on Fire on my TBR list. I processed it at the library I work at and thought it sounded intriguing!