The Goldfinch: A Novel | 
pick*Ahem* Is this thing on (tap tap) Ahh, good. Attention everyone one, attention! I FINISHED THE BOOK!
What a journey! A long long long read, but I loved it the whole way through. I started with the physical book and finished with the audio on 2.5x speed. Yikes. I needed it to be done. I liked the philosophical importance of the ending and the wrap-up of the story I was pleasantly shocked by. 😲🥰 A great read. Solid 4.5 stars.
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This feels like the Mount Everest of books, like I will never finish it. I've been reading it since January 1st. 😵💫 But I was sick and got into a massive reading slump.
This book is great, and boy, am I hooked. I'm anxious for the main character and feel all the emotions he feels. But I am SO READY for this book to be done. It's so long. I have 130 some pages left. The triumph I will feel once I finish it... I can't wait.
300 pages left of this beast of a book! I was flying through it but now I've been sick for a month and have been struggling to pick this back up. Give me motivation to finish it! Lol.
Has anyone read this one or other books by Donna Tartt?
#1 of 2025!! Starting off strong!!
Started: 1/1/2025
Finished: 1/22/25
22 Days
Phenomenal book. I really enjoyed it!!
pickTook me almost a month to finish this, but I‘m so glad I went the audiobook route because this was massive and the narration was superb!
Loved this, even though I am not a fan of super-long chapters and it was hard to sometimes find a good stopping point.
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Current audiobook…loving it! First Tartt!
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I just went on vacation and saw so many people reading this book that I got curious and had to pick it up. Seems like a promising read! #vacationread
Congratulations, @Elizabeth2 💌
You‘re the winner of The Goldfinch giveaway.
Thank you for being a #LitsyLove member and participating in #FreebieFriday 💙💌💙
Your book will be mailed next week.
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#LitsyLove #FreebieFriday giveaway.
To enter comment or repost and tell us your favorite #chunkster or a chunkster you want to read.
Open to all members. (International and US)
Enter & Share. Just remember to use the #FreebieFriday hashtag and tag us: @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TieDyeDude @Read4life
Winner randomly selected tomorrow.
pickFinished this #chunkster. I HATED some parts, enjoyed others and thought it could have been trimmed down. That being said, overall it‘s a pick for me. It won‘t be a favorite read of the year (or even this month) for me but still a pick.
#BookSpinBingo #BookSpin #ReadOrDonate #readyourTBR #Roll100 #TBRtarot
@TheAromaofBooks @julieclair @PuddleJumper @CBee
You‘ve done it again, Cydney! I love it when you make my life and reading easier 🤓 The biggest physical book on my TBR is The Goldfinch. I‘m already reading it since it‘s my #ReadOrDonate book this month and it‘s a beast. Plus it was a #Roll100 book last month that I didn‘t get to.
Now if you can pick #readyourebooks numbers that match other challenges, too, that would be awesome! 😆
My #CurrentReads to start March.
1. #ReadOrDonate #Roll100 #readyourTBR #24in2024
2. #ARC #readyourebooks
3. #SeasonalCozies #SeriesLove2024 #readyourebooks #readyourTBR
4. #SeriesLove2024
5. #readyourTBR #readyourebooks
All titles are for #BookSpinBingo as well.
@julieclair @PuddleJumper @melissajayne @Jas16 @CBee @Andrew65 @TheSpineView @TheAromaofBooks
March #ReadOrDonate picks.
The Goldfinch was a #Roll100 book for February and I‘m not going to get to it. It‘s time for me to either read it or donate it. (Or both 🤓)
Reunion Pass is another book I‘ve had for a while. It‘s part of a series I love but I‘ve stalled. This should be the motivation I need to read this one and continue the series.
The goal for me is always all three, but with everything going on I know that may not happen. I will get to all rolled numbers by the end of the year.
#Roll100 @PuddleJumper
pickWe meet Theo on a normal day, just before his life falls apart. Onwards through his life in New York, Vegas, New York again, then Europe. The writing is so compelling, the car-crash of Theo‘s life so heartbreaking and awful, everything about it I loved. One of those books where this character is constantly inside your head and for the duration of the book you‘re living his life with him. I read this years ago and loved it even more on rereading.
Bk8 of my #BookMail is the 1st from Novembers mail. A signed special edition of Donna Tartt‘s 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, it‘s set across decades. 13yr old Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother & largely absent, reckless father, he survives an accident that tears his life apart. Alone in NYC, he‘s taken in by a wealthy friends family, tormented by a longing for his mother, he becomes obsessed with a small painting that reminds him of her.
“Because I don‘t care what anyone says or how often or winningly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able to persuade me that life is some awesome, rewarding treat. Because, here‘s the truth: life is catastrophe. The basic fact of existence—of walking around trying to feed ourselves and find friends and whatever else we do—is catastrophe.”
I‘m officially out of room on my tbr shelf. It‘s time for a summertime unhaul. A lot of these were books I expected to love. Some of them I‘ve dnfed and just held onto hoping that they would stick someday. And some of them I haven‘t even started but ultimately lost interest in. I want to make room on my shelf for books that I‘m super excited about.
These are available on my Pangobooks Shop: https://pangobooks.com/bookstore/wildwoodreads
pickHow do you find meaning? If you can create meaning, subjectively imbue an object or a person with it, can the ideas of objective value, genuine article, coincidence, stand up against elaborate, satisfying, even mythic, illusions, the idea of a fated course? Especially when experience would otherwise lend a pessimistic, nigh nihilistic reading of life without actively seeking out the idea of 'something more', a purpose, relationship, stimulant. 1/?
Does furniture have more perceptible personality amongst its fellows?🤔
🌧️🌌 Beautiful.
Books can do the same, seeing the world in brighter colours. 🎂
I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!
#ABookADay2023
#MarchMagic Day 16: This is definitely #BkBasedOnPainting - one of them chunksters that took awhile for me to finish, but well worth the read.
I know a lot of people loved this book but I just couldn‘t with this book. I made it about halfway before I bailed but it is a #BkBasedOnPainting 🖼️ 😬
#MarchMagic 💚💰🌈🍀
#BookNerd 🤓📚💙
pickI finished this book last Thursday, however I haven't been able to bring myself to write a review because of extraordinary way it was written -- especially the last few pages. While the run-along sentences bothered me as I was reading, they were outweighed by the way they were written. The book was a stay-up-all-night page turner, and I absolutely enjoyed every word of it.
5⭐!
“When you feel homesick,“ he said, “just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go“
Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it‘s going to kill us.
Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.
Nature (meaning death) always wins but that doesn‘t mean we have to bow and grovel to it.
Beauty alters the grain of reality. Namely, that the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meaningful.
Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only — if you care for thing enough, it takes a life of its own, doesn‘t it? And isn‘t the whole point of things — beautiful things — that they connect you to some larger beauty?
At a visit at an art museum in New York, Theodore “Theo” decker and his mother get caught in an explosion, which ends up killing Theo‘s mother. After, Theo meets an old man who is dying from his wounds; the man gives Theo a ring and a painting named The Goldfinch.
Theo goes to live with the Barbours, his classmate Andy‘s family due to the lack of a father.
People die, sure, but it's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.
