It's Already February | Weekly Snapshot

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

It's Already February | Weekly Snapshot

Happy February! Can you believe 2020 is already a month old? So far, this year has been off to a good start. Other than the fact that there has been been illness after another sweeping through our home and many homes in the area, it's been mostly positive.

Currently

I'm late getting this post up today - between a work emergency yesterday and a mild vertigo recurrence last night, I called it an early night. Although the vertigo isn't fully gone yet, it's manageable as long as I can stay put without moving around much. The girl has just gone for her swimming class and the boy is serenading to nursery rhymes, so I'm stopping by real quick before the day gets busy again.

Looking ahead

February means Valentine's Day projects at my daughter's preschool and President's Day weekend. It's been a long winter so far - other than a trip to Boston at the end of November, we haven't traveled outside our town. With the kids just coming out of cold/cough/flu/some annoying illness #3 since the start of winter, we aren't making any travel plans that require any kind of advance reservations or payments. So, assuming we're all healthy and able, we may make a small road trip out of that long weekend. Not sure where yet but it will likely be very short notice.

This week, I don't have much going on and I hope it stays that way so that I can focus my energy on internal projects or do more reading than in previous weeks.

Reading

I'm continuing book hopping trying to find the right book or books that I'll come back to after one reading session. Although My Brilliant Friend was a good read, I just didn't feel up to coming back to it the next day so I've put it aside for now. I know I'll be reading it again once I've got a good reading spree going. This week, I started reading Ali Wong's Dear Girls. It was just the kind of book (fast-paced essays with a hilarious take on personal events) I was looking for. It won't make my favorite books list but it's definitely engaging and fun to read. I laughed at way too many passages - this lady sure isn't afraid of sharing the most private details (and by that, I'm referring to body humor).

Last night, while browsing through hoopla, I came across Colored: The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin. A few months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, teenager Claudette refused to do the same. However, due to various circumstances, her story would not on be the face of the Civil Rights movement and it was going to years before she would get any recognition for her brave actions.

Watching

Nothing new here - The Mentalist continues to keep me occupied most nights before my eyes shut. I did read more this week than watch TV so that's a welcome change.