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...
Every month, Ash and I are going to focus on one eco-related book for Leif Reads. To see what this feature is all about, visit this page . This month, we are reading Slow Death by Rubber Duck by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie . Slow Death by Rubber Duck talks about seven toxins that we unwittingly come in contact with - many times a day. Over the last three weeks, we talked about four toxins - pthalates in toys that kids come in contact with every day , how even lawn care brings us into contact with several toxins , how those non-stick teflon pans in the kitchen are a silent disaster waiting to happen , and about the oldest and the only natural toxin - mercury - which we so happily include in our diet when we eat those fish . Slow Death by Rubber Duck also mentions three other toxins that we didn't cover yet - Bisphenol A, present in those plastic bottles; PBBs or flame retardants, so conveniently found in those non-natu...