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...
How is this year already half over? I still remember setting all those goals, making plans, and feeling excited about a possible better-than-2020 year. And here we are in July, a good time to look at what's gone to plan and what needs to be abandoned. Goals checkin Excited by the start of a brand new year, I did commit to a lot of goals initially. Although I may not finish all of them, I will still continue some of those because I love their prompts. All challenge details are here . The numbers - I wanted to read more and better than last year in numbers. So far, I am on track to reading more, both in book count and in page count. Unless I can't read at least 20 books in the next half of year, I should be good. I have also done well in pages per day and days per book. Chunkster Reading Challenge - I wanted to read two books with 450+ pages and I did read two so far. I do feel I cheated here a bit because both books were fast-paced. Oh well, details. Mount TBR Challenge - ...