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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
Scraps. Entertaining and informative scraps, but still scraps.
This is not a book in the traditional sense. This resembles Joan Didion's signature style, but lacks any sort of cohesion and vision. There are a few good lines, interesting lines, but nothing to particularly remember. If you have never read Didion before, do not read this book. If you have read Didion, I would also recommend not reading this book. Not sure why this was published.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
"It occurred to me almost constantly in the South that had I lived there I would have been an eccentric and full of anger, and I wondered what form the anger would have taken. Would I have taken up causes, or would I have simply knifed somebody?"
I guess I know what form the anger took.
I guess I know what form the anger took.
reflective
slow-paced
I would’ve DNF’d if it wasn’t so short. The way Didion speaks about the American south is condescending and infantilizing. I do not know what she believed she was accomplishing with these observations, but they do not provide an accurate portrait of southerners.
Iistened to Loretta Lynn and sat in the sun the entire afternoon reading this
Ultimately her writing is really good but I found myself really frustrated with the way she oversimplified a lot of things about the South. Like cmon coastal elitist
i'm didion-ing again.
this is like reading didion's notes for a book of common prayer.
in other words, it's like being told by some sort of cool girl literary genie that you've been granted a behind the scenes look at a didion book, and you're freaking out, like: is it the year of magical thinking! is it play it as it lays! is it blue nights!
and then being told, no...it's one of her less successful and known works. but like. it's still didion.
so less exciting, but still a treat to glimpse inside one of the coolest minds there ever was.
mixed with travels with charley, which can only be a good thing.
bottom line: clever and incisive and a low-level wish come true!
this is like reading didion's notes for a book of common prayer.
in other words, it's like being told by some sort of cool girl literary genie that you've been granted a behind the scenes look at a didion book, and you're freaking out, like: is it the year of magical thinking! is it play it as it lays! is it blue nights!
and then being told, no...it's one of her less successful and known works. but like. it's still didion.
so less exciting, but still a treat to glimpse inside one of the coolest minds there ever was.
mixed with travels with charley, which can only be a good thing.
bottom line: clever and incisive and a low-level wish come true!