THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt
‘Did you notice anything going wrong with
your eyes?’ the eye specialist asked in August. ‘Any extra floaters or shadows
dropping past your eyes? It would have been a few months ago… maybe March?’
And when I thought about it, I had.
I switched from reading actual books with tiny print and started reading almost
everything on my Ipad, which lit up the pages and I could blow up the font so
it was huge. And from them on, much of what I read was bang-up-to-the-minute, recently-released
novels. It became a bit of an unwitting project – reading almost everything
that was in Wh Smiths’ Top Ten. And first among these was this immense and
absorbing book.
Some episodes are way too long (hello, Las
Vegas) but she recreates places and times so vividly on the page, we feel we’ve
lived through these hectic phases of life with the characters. I really felt
I’d lived through every page of this one.
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