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
1. Happy Father's Day
Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful dads out there. This is the husband's first as a father, of course, and2. The Storm
We had a big bad storm hit our area on Thursday night. The news had been warning about it all day but I confess not to have taken it seriously. We get thunderstorms often and sure, they do sound scary when they happen and also move our grill from one place to another in the back deck, but they have never done more damage than out the power for a while. However, this was the worst storm I had ever seen/heard. In retrospect, I realized that we should have headed straight to the basement but that thought didn't hit me then. I woke up in the morning to see a huge white rectangular something in our front yard. I figured it was some board that belonged to a neighbor but when I went to check the backyard, I saw a whole fence section ripped out.
We managed to put it back together later but it took a lot of work to align it perfectly.
3. Reading to the Babe
Shreya has finally been showing interest in books and this mom cannot be any happier. I love how she brings the book over to someone and snuggles close to sit on the person's lap and then watches the book with so much rapt attention that it's just adorable. Her favorite book right now is a farm animals book, with us making animal sounds and she grinning and laughing. She also loves Sandra Boynton's books, of which I am a big fan too!4. This breakfast
Lately, I have been adding coconut milk to a lot of dishes. We do traditionally add it to many Indian dishes, but I recently discovered breakfast recipes that use this ingredient and I have been taking full advantage of that. This morning, I made this amazing too-good-to-be-real Chia pudding parfait.
Chia seeds in coconut milk is just heaven. Mm, I could eat it every day. But this parfait was even better - it has all my favorite foods - almond flour, apples, almond butter, coconut milk, nuts, and chia seeds.
5. Toni Morrison
I finally finished my first Toni Morrison book - God Help the Child. She is one of the authors I have been intimidated by her for a long time but now I can finally say that I have read one of her books and am looking forward to more. Although I was somewhat underwhelmed by the book itself, it is certainly ambitious in its ideas and I can see how she can be a challenging author to read.
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