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...
I've had a pretty good reading week, which sort of explains my absence from here. I also picked up my half-done first knitting project (a scarf for the husband) which I had set aside a few months back, waiting for the right season. I've almost on the home stretch now and cannot. wait. for. it. to be ready!
On the reading front, I finally finished an audiobook - The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson - after two months of listening in the car. Phew - what a long book. By the end, it felt just like a saga - it was hard saying goodbye. I also finished Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the ending of which I found quite interesting. It did leave me wondering what it takes to make a fundamentalist and how cyclic the cause-and-effect pattern of it can be.
Next in the list
This weekend, I picked up Allegiant by Vernoica Roth. I was never a fan of this series because of its poor writing, silly dialogues and sappy romance, but this book made it worth sticking around. It still suffers from the same flaws but it finally brings everything to a nice circle. After this, I'm not sure which one I'll read. Mostly, it could be Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.
Review Backlog
1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
2. Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness
3. Quarantine by Rahul Mehta
4. MetaMaus by Art Speigelman
5. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
6. Maus by Art Speigelman
7. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
8. Can you Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella
9. Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
10. In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
11. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
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