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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
Reading about my grandmother's South, my mother's South, and partially my South written by an outsider has been a deeply moving and saddening experience. Lovely read.
Joan Didion, I was put on this Earth to love you
This book is comprised of two essays from Joan Didion's notebooks she kept in the '70s. Many of her observations, especially on the South, sadly ring true today. As many reviews and synopses have already stated, reading these essays was a wonderful glimpse into Didion's craft.
Realizing that not much has changed in 50 years in the South...
This one's for the Babitz Girls.
I can't pinpoint why, but it is much more compelling than Didion usually is to me. She's always raw, but this one just felt different. Maybe because she was out of her California Comfort Zone. Maybe it was the subject matter and the people she spoke to. Either way, this is the Didion I will be most likely to recommend moving forward.
I can't pinpoint why, but it is much more compelling than Didion usually is to me. She's always raw, but this one just felt different. Maybe because she was out of her California Comfort Zone. Maybe it was the subject matter and the people she spoke to. Either way, this is the Didion I will be most likely to recommend moving forward.
I love Joan Didion as much as the next person, but this one was not her best. Quite dull, uninteresting.
This was both my first Joan Didion novel and first memoir novel. I thoroughly enjoyed the adventure Joan took me on during her road trip around the South. I loved all the details she wrote and the random conversations that were included. From elevator conversations to beauty shop discussions, this book offered a variety of different people who each have interesting, and sometimes comical, characteristics. South and West was a joy to read and made me feel like I was experiencing life in 1970 for the very first time!
I could leave the California section but loved the southern section. “A time warp: the civil war was yesterday but 1960 was spoken of as if it were three hundred years ago.”
new favorite way to describe home is “I am easy here in a way I am not easy in other places”
book was cool to see the south during this time period but didn’t move me in any way, but I would again and again read joan talk about paint drying so
book was cool to see the south during this time period but didn’t move me in any way, but I would again and again read joan talk about paint drying so