Ada Shoup’s Reviews > The Goldfinch > Status Update

I’m not finished yet but I have to update. That was a very upsetting sequence to read. I feel like Antwerp is some strange purgatory Theo is stuck in.

I have finished the penultimate chapter of the book. I knew the painting was too good to be true. I just wish it hadn’t been snatched away as quickly as he got it back. I feel empty.

I kind of got emo over Theo finally seeing the painting again after all these years. It’s like walking int your childhood bedroom again and finding everything exactly as you left it.

I didn’t expect the exchange with the painting to be that quick. I know there have to be some weird strings attached because this is too good to be true.

I am determined to finish this book in the next few days. The real real action is starting, and I have not been able to put the book down for hours. I just know he’ll never see that painting again.

This has got to be some of my favorite writing in this book. All these scenes with Theo and Pippa were long overdue, and I’ve missed them together. I really like to hear their perspectives on the attack and how it’s changed them. Gosh, I weep for them.

I have to know how long Tom Cable and Kitsey has been going on, and what the deal is with her friends. Also, I think I finally understand Boris’s process for getting the painting back.

I didn’t really understand a lot of what happened with this Horst guy, but I am glad he and Theo shared a moment when talking about The Goldfinch. God knows where that painting is.

This Kitsey-Theo wedding is literally Top 10 Things That Never Happened. They need to break up effective immediately.

This is the shock of my life. Boris stealing The Goldfinch from Theo was not something I would have even imagined. I knew he was involved with it somehow, but I didn’t know it was to this extent. I’m so floored.