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The Goldfinch is only the third book by Donna Tartt, it was published in late 2013, winning many awards and quickly climbing to the top 10 favorite books of that year. This is an incredible story about adolescence and grief.  How one teenage boy was struck with a tragic event that ended his mothers life and how the rest of his life was affected by it. Donna Tartt is a very talented writer, her stories make you feel like you are there, with the characters, experiencing everything they are.

The story is about Theo Decker, a 13 year old boy whose mother dies tragically in a explosion at an art museum. He walks away unharmed, but now possesses a valuable painting, which he guards throughout his adolescence and into adulthood. Theo may seem like he got the better end of the deal, surviving that explosion, but he is a very troubled young man. Never getting over the grief of loosing his mother, and then having to live with his friend and then with his alcoholic father, he makes some bad choices. Getting involved with a Russian/Polish schoolmate, he begins to do drugs at a very young age, only to have his black cloud of doom follow him into adulthood.

Oh the Goldfinch, how I love this book, and I have absolutely no idea why I like it. It's not my type of book, I like girly books, with hot men and people falling in love. Or a good mystery, something to keep me guessing. But this book is totally different from what I would normally read for enjoyment. It felt more like a book a teacher would assign in class because we could learn from it. And I got to say it has a lot of lessons to learn from, about family, loss, friends, lying, trust. But read it and tell me what you think.

I think the character were exceptionally well developed, the whole plot felt very believable and everything just fell into place. The author did a fantastic job with setting the scenes, I felt like I was there with Theo, going through what he was going through. I should also give props to the audio book production and the narrator David Pittu. He did a wonderful job with the voices, especially Boris, his Ukrainian/Russuan/Polish accent was accurate. I'm Polish I should know.

Don't be intimidated at first, it takes a long time for the plot to unwind, and to develop all that is happening and all that is going to happen. There are some little plot twists which really made me gasp, and then there are some things that didn't affect me much, but all in all this was a great book and I recommend it to everyone. It is big though, but don't be scared, you can do it!

 
Awards

t 10 Best Books of 2013
The New York Times
t Audie Award
Audio Publishers Association
t National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
The National Book Critics Circle
t Notable Books for Adults
Notable Books Council
t Pulitzer Prize
Columbia University
t The New York Times Best Seller List
The New York Times

Avast, ye swashbucklers! Go ye to the poop deck!

Treasure Island
Writted by Robert Louis Stevenson
Adapted by Deidre S. Laiken

Well to be really honest here, I chose this book because I didn't have anything else to read in my drawer and I kind of like Around The World In 80 Days. In the beginning, old captain Billy Bones walks into Jim Hawkins' family inn and asks for a place to stay. It turns out that old Billy Bones had a treasure map that puts Jim into a bunch of trouble. My favorite quote was " 'Blackbeard was a child compared to Flint!' " on p. 64 because it is showing how murderous and brutally savage this "Captain Flint" was. I liked how the author had a character narrate in first person. I would recommend this book to pretty much anyone because it is an awesome classic.

I was super excited about this book. So excited, in fact, that it was the first ARC I picked up to read in 2015. This had SO MUCH promise because it's everything I love -- dystopia, reality TV, romance. However, it ended up being a good book, but not a great one. Maybe my expectations were too high, but I only found this book to be okay.

The opening of the novel was where I started to lose my excitement for the story. Rock drops us in the middle of a world that is super confusing, and unnecessarily so. It's one of those world with a really intense lingo -- from crickets to fralling and plus ten and characters and reals and the Drowned Lands -- that was hard to follow. I'm all for an imaginary world having a unique vocabulary, but it just didn't work for me here. It felt unnecessary and frivolous, like a distraction from the lack of real world building going on here.

I almost DNFed the book at the 40% mark because it just wasn't holding my attention. Nothing was particularly terrible or offensive, but the drama of the challenged given to Nettie was relatively tame and I wanted more drama from the Blissful Days show overall. I was expecting reality show-antics and over-the-top manipulations of situations for the cameras/audience, kind of like in The Selection. Scripted just did not go there -- the people on this island were fairly tame. This is logical within the story, I guess, because they were all born on the island and aren't just trying to get their 15 minutes of fame, but it didn't make for a completely interesting story.

The reality TV angle did have a it's moments where it was interesting, but the rest of my attention was taken by my high hopes for the dystopian elements of the story. Again, this was a letdown. We never learn much about why the island was settled or what kind of conflicts are happening in the bigger world. Honestly, I think this book is suffering from not being part of a trilogy. It is definitely a standalone novel, and the ending was quite interesting when Rock had Nettie challenge this world where control is exerted through show ratings and audience appeal. If this had been a dystopian trilogy, I could look forward to getting to see the world outside of Bliss Island in future books. I would want to see the war and the politics that exist in Rock's vision of the future. As a standalone, the story felt like it never fully developed an interesting plot.

Maybe I've just read too many books and it takes a lot to surprise/interest me. I fully accept that as the reason why I just didn't connect with this story more deeply.

FINAL GRADE: C

This is not a terrible book. Not at all. It's completely average. Teenage me would have liked it, but 30-year-old me has seen it all before and wanted more. If you are excited about the book and go in with realistic expectations, you may find a hidden gem here. As for me, this is not a book I will probably re-read, and will therefore not purchase the finished copy. Check it out from the library or borrow from a friend, and let me know if you have a different opinion from me!

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This was a fantastic adaptation that condensed the original in a complete, easily digestible way and threw in a few extra illustrations.

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I just read this all by my lonesome in one afternoon at the beach. A good, quick read, which I'm sure was abridged/adapted for a young reader. Couldn't get my son to read it, so I did, and enjoyed it, thank-you-very-much. Now to read the real thing...on my next beach trip!

I choose "Treasure Island" because I thought it had adventure, which did, and a friend recommended this book. The plot of this stor is that a young boy joins a crew of treasure hunters and they try to find a treasure chest hidden by another pirate captian named Captian Flint. The young boy realizes that the crew he was with was evil so he tries to escape and get the treasure himself.My favorite qoute from the book is " For I can still hear the sharp voice of Captian Flint still rining in my ears:," "Peices of eight!Pieces of eight!"and this show to me how after a long period of time Jim( the young boy)remembers his adventure. The author's style waslike he was writing a movie not a book. I would recommend this book to kid at age 8 because the book makes people have images in their heads and the book is not to long.

I have never actually read this book before and I was missing an exciting one.
There are pirates, sword battles, treasure hunting and the dreaded.....Black Spot!!!!!
Enjoy getting to know Long John Silver.