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...
More than once, and for no reason, you push back my breakfast and dinnertime by one hour. This goes on for months and months. All the meals are exactly one hour late, until you finally realize your mistake and get my feeding schedule back on track. This is very annoying. Please stop. This has never happened before. Me forgetting a review date. Sure, I've not met them countless times. Trish is quite used to receiving my last minute emails requesting a review date postponement, and because she is awesome, she has always been nice about it. But this time, I'm super embarrassed. Because I opened my review deadline sheet only to find that this review was due two weeks ago. Yikes! Things your Dog Doesn't Want you to Know is a collection of short anecdotes narrated by dogs. The stories are just two-page long and many of them are hilarious. The husband and I always loved dogs but had never had one until the May of this year. Until then, all we knew about dogs is that the...