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Cuthbert Allgood

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57. Finally finished Goldfinch

Thu Mar 15, 2018, 09:04 AM

Mar 2018

I liked it. Didn't love it (loved a good many parts of it though). Thought the end was a little heavy handed thematically, but I fully realize that is just a me thing. Glad I read it. I do agree that the concepts at the end are powerful. I just keep thinking of my favorite painting during the end of the book (Crows over wheat field) and why it means so much to me and the emotional reaction I had to seeing it in person in Amsterdam.

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