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The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

Start date: September 1, 2014

Finish date: November 30, 2014

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Jul 23, 2020 ☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: graphomania-my-love, menu-reading-is-served

The Great Mistress of the DWAIMQ (~~the Dark and Wonderful Art of Inserting Magic into the Quotidian~~) strikes again!

I'm both in love with this author and irritated.
And fascinated.
And excercising my awesome eyeroll.
And wanting moar of this literate toffee goodness...
Her style is the next best Enigma since the original Enigma.

All's well as long as Tartt has enough paper around to write her endless books about world and love and meaning and feelings and descriptions of descriptions and meanderin ...more

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Jan 11, 2014 Natasha Burns rated it did not like it

Shelves: failed-attempt-try-again-later, gave-up-and-probably-won-t-try-agai

I'm giving up on this one. There is such a thing as too long and too detailed. Yes, some of the descriptions are fantastic and so well written. But this book is just so depressing and going nowhere and SLOWLY. I dislike EVERY character. I have so many great books to read, that I'm annoyed this has sapped me of time and energy. I hate that I am abandoning a book 300 pages in, as I haven't ever done that before. Usually if I'm not sucked in by 100 pages, I'm outta there. The whole Vegas part of th ...more

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