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...
It feels good to summarize my reading after doing a readathon. I had a couple of so-so reading weeks and then finished two books on Saturday.
Next in the list
I'm a quarter of my way through Monsters of Men, which I'm enjoying. The Chaos Walking series has been a lot of fun to read, even though it's taken me awhile to get to it. I'm waiting to pick up The Perks of Being a Wallflower next. This is another book that's got a lot of positive vote.Reviews posted
1. Night by Elie Wiesel (Very moving!)
Review Backlog (Yikes!)
1. Quarantine by Rahul Mehta
2. MetaMaus by Art Speigelman
3. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
4. Maus by Art Speigelman
5. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
6. Can you Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella
7. Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
8. In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
9. The Boy Who Could See Demons by Carolyn Jess-Cooke
10. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
11. The Dinner by Herman Koch
Comments
My backlog is nuts as well ;) I suggest mini-reviews, for both of us!
Are you planning to participate in #diversiverse this year? :-)