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
The ladies behind BBAW have certainly outdone themselves. First they asked us to introduce ourselves through the books we read, and if that wasn't challenging enough, they want to know about the books I have loved thanks to a blogger. I mean, what book haven't I loved thanks to a blogger recommendation? Talk about having our work cut out for us.
After much deliberation, and I say that with an over-expressive gesture, I want to spotlight two books that I have read and loved due to blogger recommendations. No specific blogger was individually responsible for me reading these two books, rather the entire community came together to recommend them.
Day 2: What have you read and loved because of a fellow blogger?
After much deliberation, and I say that with an over-expressive gesture, I want to spotlight two books that I have read and loved due to blogger recommendations. No specific blogger was individually responsible for me reading these two books, rather the entire community came together to recommend them.
Day 2: What have you read and loved because of a fellow blogger?
- Kindred by Octavia Butler: I may have had Kindred on my TBR for a long time but I wasn't exactly clamoring to read it. I hadn't bothered to read what the plot was about but I knew it was historical fiction - something I didn't read much of. The land of the book blogs, however, was hugely in love with this book. Everyone I followed had recommended it, multiple times. But it was still going to be years before I cracked it open and by then, I sorely regretted not reading it sooner.
- Me Before You by Jojo Moyes: This one was an oddity. When it was released, I must have read 1-2 reviews about it each week. But I was having serious doubts about it just because of the cover. However, I had thought the same about Where'd You Go, Bernadette, which had a non-serious looking cover and I loved it anyway. So I got my copy from the library, plonked down, and started reading... only to bail out after two pages. I hated that first chapter (or prologue, whatever it was). But the buzz around the book refused to die and I resigned myself to being the Grinch in a sea of fans. Months later, I got a copy from Audible, still eager to be a part of the story but not wanting to read it. (I was still convinced that I wasn't the target audience for the book.) This time however, I couldn't put the book down. Several hours of listening later, the book had soared to the top of my favorites list.
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