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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 -
Less by Andrew Sean Greer — book review
I’m sure I won’t be the first or last person to find Less to be a bit less than expected. Although it had its moments, for the most part I found myself annoyed by its employment of satire. Not only does Greer lampoon the literary world but almost every scene ends up being satirical of…
2.5 STARS, Adult, age gap, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, Andrew Sean Greer, books about books, books about writers, BOOKS ON WRITING, Contemporary, gay, Germany, HUMOR, India, japan, Less, lgbtq+, LGBTQ+ Author, m/m, Mexico, midlife crisis, morocco, Pulitzer Prize, READ IN 2019, REVIEW, ROMANCE, satire, travel, why the hype
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