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
I stopped doing memes a long time back - primarily because I didn't want to box myself into a blogging calendar but also because, after a while, all memes seem to become work rather than fun. There's this meme however, that I've been following a lot and actually enjoy quite a bit too. I enjoy lists and this one seems to be a good one to make me build lists to my life's content. That said, I probably won't be doing this one regularly - only when I find the topic particularly fun to tackle, like this week's.
I don't particularly care for books made into movies - there is not enough time to express every aspect of the book. TV shows - I heart! Except when they drag on for eons.
The TV shows...
I know, I know! I know what you're thinking seeing that Harry Potter set over there. Aren't the seven books, eight movies, a whole new fancy website, a few theme parks, and a big money-making industry enough? Oh yeah, I say. I do hope the industry stops coming up with more ways to capitalize on these wonderful books. But, that said, if they do plan to do something more, or if we could go back a few years, I wish they did a TV show rather than a whole bunch of movies that had to cut a lot of scenes from the books.
And The movies...
I added Haruki Murakami to the list simply because it will be interesting to see how any of his books are adapted for screen. Depending on who you talk to about a book of his, you may hear different interpretations. For that reason, I guess, making a movie out of his books would be a bad idea - there will be a lot of angry fans as there may be happy ones. But, it would be a wonderful thing, if Murakami himself wrote the screenplay.
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