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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know I'm behind the eight ball here, but I just read The Marriage Plot (checked out of the library) by Jeffrey Eugenides and it was awesome!  I couldn't put it down.  I was a bit skeptical that it could be as compelling as Middlesex, but while it was very different, it was still very entertaining.  Highly recommend. [/quote]

I loved The Marriage Plot. Almost more than Middlesex. Eugenides and Donna Tartt have a similar facility with language that I find almost transcendent at times.

OP, I loved Tartt's use of language in The Goldfinch. I loved the way she got me to so completely inhabit Theo Decker, so that I liked him even when he wasn't particularly likable. I felt like I was living his PTSD along with him. I loved the small details, like what his mother wore or what she was reading. It's a novel about love and loss, but it's also a novel of ideas and the place of art in our world. I know "Dickensian" is thrown around a lot about The Goldfinch, but it's an appropriate adjective. I don't know of many novelists who can do that.

The Interestings was fine. Meg Wolitzer makes me laugh. This is one of her most fully realized books.

My big disappointment was Zadie Smith's NW. I couldn't finish it, and that's unusual for me. [/quote]

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