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
Lately, every time I finished a book, I’ve been having a lot of trouble choosing my next read. Either I’m looking for a book that could be as amazing as the one I just finished (which, let's be honest, I won’t really know for sure until I’ve finished reading the new book). Or I’m looking for a book very different from the one I just read (which typically yields a lot of possibilities). I’ve been meaning to get a random book stack ready so that I always had a list of books to choose from if I didn’t have a book planned already. This is what I’m hoping to get into the groove of over the summer, so I’ve decided to do a challenge that encourages that heavily.
One of my Goodreads groups does a seasonal reading challenge, providing a ton of prompts that can cover up to a total of almost 100 books. I don’t even read 100 books in a year. The last time I did the challenge (7 years ago!), I read only 30 so I’m not expecting a lot in count over the next three months. But what I do like is the variety of the prompts, the short-term nature of the challenge, and the advantage of having a pile to choose your books from.
After browsing through the challenge prompts for couple of weeks, I've got an initial pile together, covering some of the prompts. I'll be lucky if I even made through this smaller list, nevertheless it was fun planning the reading list. While I may not read everything on this list or may swap out a few books at any point, I do overall like this list as it has a mix of new and old, hyped and not, short and big, and a variety of formats or types.
Here are some of the books I'm looking forward to reading. These highly recommended books have shown up in my feed over and over again.
What are your reading plans for the summer? With this being a very challenging time in general, I know most of us are wrestling with reading in general. Are you hoping to do something different for the next few months?
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