It is shockingly easy to enter a book into the Pulitzer Prizes in Letters competition. The author (in most categories) must be an American citizen, the book must be available for sale in print, it must have first been published that year, and the person submitting the book has to send four copies of the book and a fifty dollar entry fee. That's it. It's easier and cheaper to … [Read more...] about Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced: The Goldfinch Wins for Fiction
The Goldfinch
eBook Review: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Verdict: 3 Stars Donna Tartt's book The Goldfinch, has over 4K reviews on Amazon, and the ratings are fairly well divided among each of the different ratings. Sadly, comments among the three-, two-, and one-star reviews tend to run along a common vein: the book just didn't live up to the hype from the industry. And truthfully, it takes a really special work of literature … [Read more...] about eBook Review: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt