Donna Tartt’s latest Pulitzer-prize winning novel takes the reader on a rich, vivid journey through the life of an orphan in high-society New York. We follow young Theo Decker, survivor of an attack which claimed his mother’s life, through immaculate Park Avenue penthouses, warm and dusty antique sh...
AudibleBRILLIANT. EXQUISITE. FASCINATING. STUNNING. «Whatever teaches us to talk to ourselves is important: whatever teaches us to sing ourselves out of despair. But the painting has also taught me that we can speak to each other across time. And I feel I have something very serious and urgent to sa...
I’m tired of huge books about privileged white males who cause most of their own problems. I’m glad I listened to this on audio while working instead of slogging through 700+ pages on my own time.
I finished reading The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt today and I'm breathing a huge sigh of relief. I have literally been on a mission to read this novel for several years now and I finally, at long last, found a copy at the library. As soon as I found it, cleverly disguised sans dust jacket, I imme...
Theodore Decker's life was a mess, even before he stumbled museum, and subsequently, into a terrorist bombing with his mother.As fulfillment of an old man's dying wish in the wreckage of the museum, Theo leaves with a priceless painting, but without his mother. From that day on, Theo's life is spent...
I did it! I finally finished this 800-page beast. It took me over a week, and I have so many thoughts. The Goldfinch starts with thirteen-year-old Theo, who lives in New York City with his mother. One day, Theo’s mother is killed in a terrorist attack, and Theo spends the rest of his childhood bei...
I was hoping to like this book much more than I did, but alas! the only characters I cared anything about were Popper the dog, a couple of secondary characters unwittingly caught up in the train wreck of Theo Decker's life, and the title painting (which does indeed take on the significance of a char...
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...
4/9 - I had trouble with the scenes during and after the bombing. I didn't feel like I could trust Theo's account of what happened, he's young and things were so jumbled I didn't really understand what was happening. I was confused by what happened when Theo said he saw his mother, but that only hal...
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