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A Review of Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch
What a fascinating enigma this book is. It’s almost eight hundred pages long. Its first-person narrator and its plot are compelling. It’s at times unspeakably sad. It’s not especially well written....
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Thoughts on Part I of Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch (by Jill)
Donna Tartt’s long-awaited third novel came out late in 2013 and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2014. I read her two earlier novels, The Secret History, and The Little Friend, years ago, and...
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In which Jill decides she really dislikes Theo Decker: Progress report on...
Since last posting, I’ve read about three hundred more pages of The Goldfinch. Thanksgiving preparations slowed me down quite a bit, despite having two long weekends in the past two weeks. The past...
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And I’m spent…. Final thoughts on Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. (by Jill)
Finally finished The Goldfinch yesterday afternoon and I’ve been resetting my brain by playing solitaire ever since. No, not the whole time. This book was a roller coaster—it made me feel almost...
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