It’s wonderfully Dickensian, and I loved it from the first page. I had to force myself to put it down now and then so that I wouldn’t finish it too quickly. It’s hard not to feel that an ~800 page book ought to last longer than two days.
Read it!
January 8, 2014
My favourite book of 2014
There’s something wonderful and terrible about finishing what you’re sure will be your favourite book of 2014 on January 2nd. That’s when I finished The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
It’s wonderfully Dickensian, and I loved it from the first page. I had to force myself to put it down now and then so that I wouldn’t finish it too quickly. It’s hard not to feel that an ~800 page book ought to last longer than two days.
Read it!
It’s wonderfully Dickensian, and I loved it from the first page. I had to force myself to put it down now and then so that I wouldn’t finish it too quickly. It’s hard not to feel that an ~800 page book ought to last longer than two days.
Read it!
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This happened to me last year with Kate Atkinson's LIFE AFTER LIFE. I think it was March when I read it and knew it was my favorite for 2013. Guess what I just started reading?
The Goldfinch? :)
I guess we should just be happy to have found books we really love so early in the reading year! I actually really wanted to read Life After Life next (I bought it when it came out but somehow never started it), but I can't find my copy. So I'm reading Donna Tartt's The Little Friend now instead.
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