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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
Really enjoyed Joan Didion's crisp writing. Perfect book to come back from a reading block. Very interesting perspective to discover as I am a European reader.
cute but i kinda dont care about the US idk why i picked this up...
Fairly light reading, but with a few good, quotable passages. Perhaps I would like it better if I were a devotee of the author's writings or if I shared her class and upbringing. Still, it has interesting comparison points to Blue Highways.
I ate this one up in like two days. I think I’m going to read it again, I love seeing the world from ms didions eyes❤️
Very short read. But typical Joan Didion in that it is super compelling, readable, and despite the fact that it was written 30 years ago, timely.
I love Didions writing. These short observations on a trip to the South in the 1960s didn't give me as much depth as I'd like. Although I could feel the heat, and the dirt, and the people, and the oppressiveness of all, rather than the being in that world I felt like we were observing from above. I do love her writing though.The part on the West was too short.
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A autora nos brinda com relatos de sua viagem pelo Sul dos Estados Unidos, contando um pouco dos costumes, preconceitos, características, clima, cultura e biodiversidade da região. Com recortes rápidos e nem sempre conectados, ela nos passa uma ideia de que absorveu o que lhe marcou, que viveu em um sonho e que a marcou com um lugar em que ela jamais pertenceu.
Jornalismo misturado com poesia.
Jornalismo misturado com poesia.
Joan Didion is a great writer, and there are some lovely observations and sentences here, but it really isn't much of a book.
"It occurred to me almost constantly in the South, that had I lived there I would have been an eccentric and full of anger. I wondered what form it would have taken. Would I have taken up causes or would I have knifed somebody?" This quote simply amuses me as Didion reveals elsewhere that she weighs 96 lbs and was sometimes confused for a teenager as her hair was not "done." Imagine that same character knifing somebody.
"The weather around here must shape ideas of who and what one is, as it does everywhere." I think this ALL the time having grown up in two starkly different climates and seeing that people, generally, are likewise different. Compare the Southern Californians in their idyllic Mediterranean climate to the friendly, we're-all-in-this-together Midwesterners braving tornado summers, semi frequent blizzards, and horrible driving conditions.
"The weather around here must shape ideas of who and what one is, as it does everywhere." I think this ALL the time having grown up in two starkly different climates and seeing that people, generally, are likewise different. Compare the Southern Californians in their idyllic Mediterranean climate to the friendly, we're-all-in-this-together Midwesterners braving tornado summers, semi frequent blizzards, and horrible driving conditions.