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...
Why do long weekends end so soon? I feel like I'm the hand trying to hold so much sand but it slips away faster anyway.

This weekend, I started reading Attachments by Rainbow Rowell. This book wasn't really on my radar but it was the perfect book to read in a car when there are people talking most of the time and a dog jumping on your lap all the time. I thought I may not like this one, but it's actually quite enjoyable so I'm looking forward to some good reading.
I finally finished listening to Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, which was an educational read but considering that it was published in 2008, not really containing as much new information as I had hoped to get.
What I'm excited about...
What are you reading?

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Have a great week!
Shelleyrae @ Book'd Out
Ooooh, that Larson is a great read! The Devil in the White City is excellent too. I'm a history nerd :)