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text 2015-11-16 03:22
How did I miss this?
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

Remember my review of "The Goldfinch? http://carissagreen50.booklikes.com/post/1276684/the-big-book-donna-tartt-s-the-goldfinch


Turns out, Booklikes highlighted it as a featured review in their e-mail newsletter to subscribers dated October 30. Of course, I totally missed it until I was cleaning out my queue, almost two weeks later.

 

I'm honored - and I'm a little bit shamed that I don't review more often. Perhaps this is incentive. 

Thanks, Booklikes.

 

-cg

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review SPOILER ALERT! 2015-10-26 03:03
The Big Book: Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch"
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch" deserves every inch of praise that has been sent its way. I know a few people who have commented that at 771 pages, they couldn't finish it, but I read it twice in two months - first over the three-day Labor Day weekend, then again more slowly through October. 

 

It has been rightly noted that "The Goldfinch" takes its place among the great Bildungsromans. The book also pays more than a nodding homage to the great Russian epics. But to my mind it also belongs in the pantheon of New York stories. Yes, there are significant side trips into the exurbs of Las Vegas and the Amsterdam underworld, but for the majority of the story the reader is steeped in a classic sampling of the places and people that make up New York City (pretty much just white people, unfortunately, but you can't do everything in one book).

 

I loved "The Goldfinch." After hearing book bloggers and podcasters rave about Tartt's "A Secret History," I do believe that my summer reading list for 2016 has its first entry. But this one will stay with me, its overall impression is that great. One scene, particularly, will probably haunt me all my days. Anyone want to sponsor my trip to The Mauritshuis so I can visit the painting?

 

-cg

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text 2015-08-30 15:48
Filling the Gaps: Nabokov's Pale Fire
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov

Every summer, I try to fill at least one hole in my literary life. This year, it was my first Nabokov. I chose "Pale Fire." I finished it this morning.

 

What the heck did I just read?

 

No, don't tell me. Let me enjoy the meta-crazy for a while . . .

 

-cg

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text 2015-08-17 03:20
Lost in a Book
Dark Places - Gillian Flynn

Sometimes I sit down to read a book, start to finish, or as close as possible, and get totally lost in the narrative. Seven and a half hours go by, like today, and I'm completely in another world. 

 

Time has passed. The light has changed. I'm fatigued, a little bit queasy, perhaps. Under-hydrated. Uneasy because things have happened in the world while I was completely oblivious to the world even being there. 

 

It's a great, great feeling. 

 

Thanks, Gillian Flynn. "Dark Places" was one of those books.

 

-cg

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