The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt My rating: 2 of 5 stars So begins another book to really lose oneself. The Goldfinch by author Donna Tartt is supposedly known to write only one novel a decade. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize , I look forward to reading this book about " haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity." Ok, here goes. "A great sorrow and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don't get to choose our own hearts. We can't make ourselves want what's good for us or what's good for other people. We don't get to choose the people we are." The story starts with a boy who loses his mother in a museum explosion terror attack. In his effort to preserve his sanity and memory, he takes a single artwork, called the Finch from the museum collection from there, his one action leads to one of many series of events that shapes his life as a child to an adult from the setting in Las Vegas to the big ...
With a degree in Art History, writer takes a formal analysis of emerging and current art, art history, and architecture art that are around the United States, and globally. In addition, an avid book reader turn amateur reviewer on books that stimulates the mind and triggers thought provoking issues in our little world.