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
Six years ago, I stumbled upon the edges of the book blogging world, whose awesome book reviews and fun challenges made me want a piece of that cake. I was in my second year at grad school and I was going through a long spell of disillusionment and lack of inspiration. A lot of non-fun activities were in progress - job hunting, thesis, a couple of dud courses, and some family matters. I was visiting and staying with my cousin's family in LA for the holidays and was on the lookout for a big distraction from all my grad school worries. So when I came across a couple of book blogs, I knew that's exactly what I wanted to do. Also, the year-end was when everyone was talking about challenges, new year resolutions, and reading plans, so the book-blogging community was even more happening then than it usually is at other times of the year.
I didn't have any plan or purpose when I started blogging nor do I have one now, other than to talk primarily about books and occasionally about the other things that happen in my life. And although I've been through phases when I wanted a blogging break and when I've questioned what the heck I'm doing here, I always come back here because it's my little corner of the interwebs where I can prattle about anything but mainly because of the amazing book blogging community.
During the past six years, I
It's amazing how much life has changed since then but in many ways, things are still the same. I know blogging has changed me immensely:
- I no longer read the same books that I did when I first started blogging.
- I didn't use to talk much about books pre-blogging but now I do. A lot.
- I used to read maybe a couple of books a year. I have always loved reading but I never ran from book to book. Now, I read as if my days are numbered.
- The discovery of readathons and readalongs was like an early Christmas present for me.
- I have bought more books over the past few years than in all the previous years combined.
Six years on the blog have resulted in
- 874 published posts,
- 12036 comments,
- 273 reviews, with 213 alone being of fiction titles,
- 403 books read,
- 154,669 visits since I started tracking with Google Analytics in August 2010,
- Most visitors in a single day (205 on Feb 16, 2014),
- 1082 twitter followers,
- 3930 tweets, and
- 11,754 views of my most popular post, Hell-Heaven by Jhumpa Lahiri.
While I didn't think I would still be blogging for six years, I am glad to still be at it. Here's to many more years around here. Also? Thanks for hanging around!
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