Summer Book Bucket List Pick | 2017

So, I thought of this post a couple of weeks ago while I was on the verge of falling asleep. You know how you always think of things right when your mind is on the verge of unconsciousness. Well, this idea stuck with me and it's been on my mind, stewing for a while now.

This post will be an ongoing thing. Every season, I will choose one book that is on my bucket list of reads, books that are on lists of books to read before you die, these books are on my personal bucket list reads. The book will suit the season. I already have chosen for the winter, I need to find a book for the fall and of course, my summer book was the first one that came to mind when I came up with the idea for this post. It is a book that has been sitting on my shelf since last summer.

All of these books are books that I have had and wanted to get to for a long time now. They are not books that I have received for review, from both self-publishing and traditional published, these are mainly books I bought on my own and want to read.

As I am reading this book, I will be taking notes, documenting when I am reading and taking pictures. At the end of the summer, I will post my experience, how I felt while reading this book, post my review and name the next book I plan on reading off my book bucket list. I am allotting myself three months to start and finish each book, so these posts will be quarterly and each book will set the seasons mood.

The summer bucket list book I have chosen is....

Pulitzer Winner The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.

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Synopsis:

Theo Decker, 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.

As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love--and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.