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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
This is exactly as billed -- a notebook of thoughts and observations -- but it's Joan friggin' Didion, so of course it's awesome. The 3-star rating (which is really more alike 3.75) is simply because I was sad the book didn't give me more.
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Nothing makes me want to write more than reading Joan Didion.
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At the risk of sounding overly earnest, inspiring from the standpoint of craft with images and dialogue that linger. Love a good notebook.
listened to the audiobook while doing chores and that may or may not have been not the wisest decision because due to the writing consisting mainly of notes the narrative lost me several times, so i’ll definitely have to reread this! nevertheless i really loved and enjoyed joan didion’s way with words & now i can’t wait to finally pick up one of her novels
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relaxing
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Didion is evidently California through and through, as indicated both by her condescension towards the South and her appreciation of how California makes her “easy” like no other place.
I enjoyed reading the unfinished notes and musings because they remind me of my own notebook’s blocks of text, never to be pieced together. I would truly enjoy reading a longer, complete journal kept by Didion. There’s a strange way she thinks and perceives people. Beyond the actual substance, her writing elicits a feeling—she captures the melancholy of geography and travel and the odd circumstances that lead people to different places.
Two parting Didionisms:
P.92 “It was the kind of Sunday to make one ache for Monday morning.”
P.126 “I am easy here in a way that I am not easy in other places.”
I enjoyed reading the unfinished notes and musings because they remind me of my own notebook’s blocks of text, never to be pieced together. I would truly enjoy reading a longer, complete journal kept by Didion. There’s a strange way she thinks and perceives people. Beyond the actual substance, her writing elicits a feeling—she captures the melancholy of geography and travel and the odd circumstances that lead people to different places.
Two parting Didionisms:
P.92 “It was the kind of Sunday to make one ache for Monday morning.”
P.126 “I am easy here in a way that I am not easy in other places.”
Content Warnings
Moderate: Racism
Minor: Kidnapping
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