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
Hello blog! I'm still here. I know I've neglected you for a while, but I've been busy for the past two weeks and away during the weekends, that I've only now got to sit at my desk to blog. Of course, I should also mention that my blogging mojo has been absent plus it doesn't help that I haven't been reading much so the whole point of blogging about books becomes a little difficult when there is no book to talk about. But I try to be here when I can and I hope it will be more often now than before.
It's a beautiful Spring weather here today with a real feel of 64 degrees. After the long freezing winter, this warm weather is super welcoming. I cannot wait to get our patio ready for a good amount of lounging, reading, and knitting this Spring. We did a lot of work on our backyard last year towards the end of Summer so we haven't been able to reap those benefits yet. We still have our flower and vegetable garden to work on so we are looking forward to getting those started soon.
The husband and I were in DC last weekend to visit some friends and family. We had a jolly good time there and spent the road trip listening to the Game of Thrones audiobook. (Funnily, by the end of the trip and seven hours of driving later, we had only finished listening to the equivalent of the first episode.) Yesterday, we went to Raleigh to visit our close friends who just welcomed their newborn a few days ago. I haven't been around too many babies, so it always amazes me how tiny they are and how we all started there one day and ended up here today several stone sizes later.
Did you all spring your clocks forward? My computer and phone have switched but the other clocks are all sitting in the old time zone. I can never understand how this jumping forward and backward in time can be a good thing. Why not just choose the middle ground and stay there without changing clocks. It's honestly very tiring for a week while my body sleepily syncs up.
I haven't been reading anything, though I have three audiobooks in progress - Jo Nesbø's The Snowman (I now totally get the allure of his books), Shilpi Somaya Gowda's The Secret Daughter (lovely so far) and the A Game of Thrones with the husband. I do have a few good books checked out from the library for my Armchair travel - Celestine Hitiura Vaite's Frangipani (Tahiti), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus (Nigeria), and Willow Wilson's Alif the Unseen, which has a Middle-Eastern feel but is really fantasy so it may not qualify for my reading. I'm going to sample these books and read the one that's turning out to be hardest to put down.
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