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Infinite Country by Patricia Engel | Thoughts

   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...

September in review


After a long season of minimal reading, I finally had a month of a lot more reading, though not quite where I want to be. Still, no complaints, it's good to just be reading something most of the time. Fall is the season of TV and it's no different over here. The Voice, The Vampire Diairies, The Walking Dead, and Once Upon a Time are what I mainly watch. I'm still catching up on Supernatural, so that is more in the category of binge-watching. (On a side note, it's funny that I watch shows I would never read about on books. Magic? Vampires? Zombies? Give me a book having one of those and I will groan heavily.)

Last month I read...



Wish I could read this again: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The dud: Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff.

Reviews posted...
The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
How to be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

Other posts...
My resort vacation
Ten Books I would like to see as a movie or TV show
Jon Krakauer on how McCandless died
Choosing the next read
Ten books on my Fall TBR list
By Order of the High Inquisitor of Hogwarts...

Plans for October
I don't really have any plans for October. I'm usually a list-maker, so the fact that I don't have any reading plans feels a little weird. I know I want to finish MetaMaus - that's the only item really on the agenda for this month. Part of me also wants to take part in Dewey's readathon this month - if I have a pretty free weekend.

Comments

rhapsodyinbooks said…
I still haven't read any Sophie Kinsella - not sure why - I should do that!
Ti Reed said…
I have How to Be a Good Wife but between King's new one and The Interestings, which I am TOTALLY and utterly in love with, I haven't got to it. You know how you love a book and realize that you would be okay reading it say, forever? That is how I am with The Interestings right now. It's ruined me for other books.
bermudaonion(Kathy) said…
It looks like you had a good reading month! I quit list making a while ago because it never worked out for me.
Helen Murdoch said…
Once Upon a Time is a big one in our house as well! I just started Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock. It might be a bit depressing (suicide as a topic), but I've heard it's fantastic
Sam_TinyLibrary said…
Kinsella's Shopaholic books are my guilty pleasure, but I haven't tried any of her stand-alone books yet. I'm glad you are coming out of a long reading slump :)