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
Happy Sunday! It's been a little more than three weeks since my last regular post though it doesn't feel that long. The last three weeks have been a blur of sleepless nights, a ton of feedings, and trying to get some rest whenever I can. Shreya will be three weeks old tomorrow and I'm amazed that she's even been here that long, especially considering how impatient I was during the last few weeks of my pregnancy waiting for this perfect bundle to arrive.
Later this week, we have family coming over for Shreya's naming ceremony (similar to a baptism) next weekend. The house is going to erupt at the seams so I'm hoping for plenty of good sleep this week - the only way I can have a sane head nowadays.
The one thing I was most curious about pre-baby was reading. Thanks to all the help around the house, I have been able to read - a lot. Those feeding sessions are turning out to be very conducive for some quality reading. I finished a full-length novel - A Window Opens by Elisabeth Egan - a week ago, and promptly started reading another novel - My Grandmother Asked me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman - which is as quirky and fun as A Man Called Ove, though maybe not as unputdownable. I'm just about 10 pages from finishing this book. Over the past few days, I've also been reading several shorts - J. K. Rowling's Very Good Lives, two short stories - A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings by Gabriel García Márquez and Phoenix by Chuck Palahniuk, and the graphic series - Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson and Grace Ellis.
So yep, that's more reading than I was doing pre-baby. I have also been reading your blogs but commenting is turning out to be a little difficult to do with just one hand.
Honestly, it feels great to be able to blog. I know I am nowhere near having any kind of routine established. Shreya wakes up often at nights for feedings though we had one blissful night when she slept through as soundly as I could hope for. I'm expecting her schedule to be random for a few more weeks but fingers crossed that by the time I have to return to work (four weeks from now), I will be getting more sleep than I am now.
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