{"id":2510,"date":"2015-09-05T17:26:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T21:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2015-09-05T17:28:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T21:28:42","slug":"the-goldfinch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/the-goldfinch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Goldfinch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Judy Kennedy: \u00a0THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt, just published and weighing in at 800+ pages &#8212; a real reader&#8217;s read that&#8217;s been called &#8220;Dickensian in scope and tone&#8221; and is on all of the critic&#8217;s lists as one of the Top Ten books of the year.\u00a0 It fact it was #1 on one of the NYTimes regular book reviewers list, and I think #1 on one of the New Yorker&#8217;s lists as well.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the story of a 14 year old in NYC who is &#8220;orphaned&#8221; by a father who just up and leaves and a mother&#8217;s subsequent death at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where she and our hero have gone to see the the painting of &#8220;The Goldfinch&#8221; (an exquisite \u00a0Dutch masterpiece that I had never heard of but which exists and has a wonderful back story).\u00a0 A terrorist bomb goes off in the gallery that houses &#8220;The Goldfinch&#8221; while they are there, killing the mother, and through a totally credible but extraordinary experience doesn&#8217;t touch our hero who ends up walking out of the rubble with the painting in hand with the sole purpose of saving it.\u00a0 And thus begins a tale of life, romance, friendship, crime, and salvation . . . \u00a0<em>Editor&#8217;s note: \u00a0Do not get this in audible form. \u00a0It is some 33 hours of awful!<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Judy Kennedy: \u00a0THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt, just published and weighing in at 800+ pages &#8212; a real reader&#8217;s read that&#8217;s been called &#8220;Dickensian in scope and tone&#8221; and is on all of the critic&#8217;s lists as one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/the-goldfinch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25014],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-reads"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}