If you want a neat, tidy plot with likable characters making smart choices: skip it. If you want a book that will wreck you, haunt you, and make you see beauty in broken things:
★★★★½ (half-star off for pacing in the middle, but the ending earns it back) Have you read The Goldfinch ? Love it or hate it? Let me know in the comments—just no spoilers for the last 100 pages! the goldfinch by donna tartt -little brown-
Here’s what you need to know before diving in (and why it’s worth every page). If you want a neat, tidy plot with
The Goldfinch is messy, beautiful, too long, and absolutely essential. It’s a book about a stolen painting that becomes a meditation on what we steal from ourselves—and what we keep. If you want a neat