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The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
“To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole.” The Goldfinch is an emotional rollercoaster spanning 700+ pages and proof that literary lightning can indeed strike twice. Fully deserving of…
1st pov, 2010s, 5 STARS, ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE, academia, addiction, Adult, ALIENATION, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, anxiety, anxiety-inducing reads, ART/CREATIVITY, beautiful prose, big books, bildungsroman, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, boyhood, CHILDHOOD, class, Contemporary, CRIME, DEATH, DEPRESSION, donna tartt, existentialism, fathers & sons, favourite authors, female authors, forgiveness, friendships, GRIEF, growing up, GUILT, introspective, las vegas, lgbtq+ side, LITERARY FICTION, MEMORY, morality, mothers & sons, museums, My reviews, Netherlands, nevada, NEW YORK, orphans, paranoia, philosophical, PRIVILEGE, psychological, published in 2013, Pulitzer Prize, pulitzer prize winners, queer undercurrents, re-reads, read in 2017, read in 2021, reading, rich people, strong sense of place, suicide, SUSPENSE, terrific prose, the goldfinch, trauma, unrequited love -
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.” Jhumpa Lahiri’s restrained storytelling is a pleasure to read. I…
1990s, 4 STARS, abortion/miscarriage/bodily autonomy, affairs, age gap, America, American, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, BOSTON, cold tone, collection of short stories, Connecticut, cultural dissonance, different styles (1st/2nd/3rd povs), favourite authors, female authors, HISTORICAL FICTION, identity, India, indian american author, intergenerational, Interpreter of Maladies, LITERARY FICTION, loneliness, MARRIAGE, Massachusetts, My reviews, Pulitzer Prize, pulitzer prize winners, short stories -
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton — book review
“I mean: how shall I explain? I—it’s always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.” A few months ago I read Edith Wharton’s novella, Summer. Although I thought its obliqueness to be rather fascinating, I was frustrated by its relatively short length, and thought that the characters would have benefitted from having…
1870s, 19TH CENTURY, 4 STARS, affairs, AMERICAN AUTHOR, american classics, aristocracy, beautiful prose, class, CLASSICS, Countess Ellen Olenska, Edith Wharton, favourite authors, female authors, gilded age, MARRIAGE, May Welland, NEW YORK, Newland Archer, psychological, published in 1920, pulitzer prize winners, READ IN 2019, ROMANCE, satire, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, The Age of Innocence
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