What Is It About Art?

This is a book that was given to me by a friend. She thought it would be a good read. The book is about a man named Arthur Less , a writer , who will soon turn 50 years old . He looks back on this life as he anxiously awaits the new reality of turning middle age .  Though the character's reflection on his life has been interesting, comical, and adventurously hopeful. I liked how Arthur Less seems to run away from his shortcomings in relationships and in his own writing career. He travels to a few countries as part of his book tour ; encountering a few awkward interactions with locals. In the end, as he travels to these countries, he really never forgets why he "flees" home. He realizes that he never can forget things as they follow you in memory and thought.  Source: Goodreads

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 ...