I Finished The Goldfinch | Eric Shay Howard

Yes, I finally finished reading The Goldfinch, the book I started reading back in the fall of 2015. I don’t really do book reviews anymore, at least not in written form. But, the one thing I will say about it is that if it taught me only one thing, that one thing is how to linger in a novel.

Here are some of my tweets as I was reading it.

If your narrator uses negative gay slurs all the time, I will assume they are gay and in the closet. Just so you know. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't. But, after a while, unless there is a change, it sort of becomes, well, in my opinion, obvious.
— Eric Shay Howard (@ericshayhoward) October 22, 2020

The narrator finally admits he's freaked out when guys hit on him. I mean, at this point, I HAVE to assume the author did this on purpose. (Which you're always supposed to assume in workshop settings anyway.) Theo = confused about his attraction to men. **continues reading**
— Eric Shay Howard (@ericshayhoward) October 24, 2020

T-minus 11 hours of The Goldfinch Audible book left. New Bluetooth headphones also paired. And yes, though he's currently engaged to a woman, I'm still running with my Theo-is-a-repressed-homosexual theory.
— Eric Shay Howard (@ericshayhoward) October 24, 2020

When I say “finished reading”, what I mean is being read to. I listened to the Audible version all weekend. Turns out I like audio books now. I may finish some other books I’d been neglecting for a long time as well by getting them on Audible. Maybe. I also got some new Bluetooth headphones, which I can’t believe I waited so long to get.

I may listen to some other books this week as I use my new gym membership and figure out how the gym works.

Anyway, it’s Monday, so this is a short post again. How is your Monday going? Comment below.

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I listened to The Goldfinch on Audible at the gym.

By Eric Shay Howard

Eric Shay Howard lives in Louisville, Kentucky. He's the author of the fiction collection, Crushes, and is a literary editor. He also works at a law firm and is writing his second book. He's a graduate student in the Bluegrass Writers Studio MFA in Creative Writing program at Eastern Kentucky University.

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