These things are well-crafted and just darling. I use them for organizing art supplies and as gifts. Can't believe they're so inexpensive.
The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Feb 16, 2017
Grows tedious
Goldfinch starts out in language that feels luxurious, taking its time to tell its story in masterful descriptive language, but grows more and more self-indulgent. That is fine, so long as the reader also benefits, but by page 600 or so, I found that the book got so tedious that I wanted to throw it against the wall, which is a shame because I really wanted to find out what happens to the characters, but cold not stand one more paragraph of the run-on sludge. (I know. I know.) It's frustrating because Tartt is obviously so darned gifted and skilled. She needs an editor with more of an iron hand.