It's been a while since my last book post. We just moved. We put our kids in public school for the first time ever. We just added 10 chicks to our family. And did I mention we just moved??
I have read this past month. A lot. Through the unpacking of boxes and hanging of pictures. Through the packing of school lunches and the paperwork that the teacher's send home. Through the homework proofing. Through feeding and watering chicks.
The Goldfinch is almost 800 pages. So while I haven't posted in a while, it's certainly not for lack of reading.
This book gets mostly mixed reviews from me. I'll do this in bullet points:
- Tartt tried too hard to make the book deeper than it needed to be
- The book is pretentious
- There is a good balance of detail to story line
- It's an interesting story
- The first 7/8s of the book needed to be 3/4s shorter
- The ending of the actual story was good - lots of surprises
- However, the ending (well, the book on the whole), was too philosophical for my taste in fiction
- Tartt's philosophical commentary was poor - she rambled and it didn't even make sense
The book is rough (language and non graphic sexuality), but that makes sense due to the age of the characters and the colorfulness of the lifestyles in the book. It'd make a fine book club book. And as long as you can stand the bits of color in there and have a month (or longer) to read it, it'd be a fine book to read. However, if you don't read this popular book you're not missing out on much.
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