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
Hello blog! I'm still here. mumbling.. mumbling... Last week, we got the gaming/workout room downstairs set up almost completely, and I finally started playing to the Zumba songs on the Wii. Let me make this clear - I had never played on the Wii until this week and for the first time, I feel that I have finally found a gaming device that was made just for me. I loved how much fun it was to dance, and play tennis and boxing with my husband on the Wii that I couldn't wait to get home each day this past week. Let's expect my love affair with this awesome gadget to continue for a while while the blog and the books become unwitting victims!
This week I read...- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloane: This book, written for bibliophiles and computer programming aficionados, captivated me on one level but bored me on another. Luckily, it was a quick read, and the bookish/computerish aspects of this book called out the geek in me. But the plot was very thin and the characters one-dimensional.
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer: I picked this audiobook after loving Krakauer's Into Thin Air but didn't enjoy this one as much. I loved some of the argumentative and philosophical aspects of this book, and occasionally, I felt infuriated at Chris (the twenty-something guy who leaves his family and begins his attempts to live on the road and in the wild) for his attitude towards his parents and his stubborn reluctance to keep in touch but I couldn't care much for the dragging prose or some of the adventures of Chris.
Currently I'm reading...- Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple: I had absolutely no intention of reading this book because I imagined it was just not my fare. But when I saw this title on the 2013 Tournament of Books list, I was really intrigued. I didn't think this was anywhere close to literary fiction. Boy, could I have been so wrong on this? Halfway through this title, I am enjoying this book immensely! The epistolary format of this book is just perfect for this kind of story! Plus, did I say it's hilarious?
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