Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

4.12 AVERAGE

soph_action1's review

5.0
reflective medium-paced
Spellbinding 

katieoneill's review against another edition

3.5
emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced
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heidi__e__'s review against another edition

4.5
I love Joan Didions writing and I loved these essays. I thought they were all so unique and interesting, they made me think. She tends to write with such care particularly about her home and the places she has been. I adored the essay about Joan Baez. I look forward to reading Where I Was From soon and reading more of her work on California. 

heyjche's review against another edition

4.25
reflective medium-paced
girl’s a cynic but damn can she craft a sentence
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seirinou's review against another edition

4.5
challenging informative reflective medium-paced

bradyocallahan's review against another edition

5.0
Wish I could say how much I loved it but don't have the time to write a hundred thousand words!
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gabrielee's review

4.0
dark reflective slow-paced

rachelw13's review against another edition

4.5
emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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rileydoesntreadjktheydo's review against another edition

4.5
informative reflective medium-paced
I went through it slower than anticipated, not sure why 

cass14n's review against another edition

5.0
Favorite essays were "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream", "On Keeping a Notebook", and "I Can't Get That Monster Out of my Mind". The prose was so atmospheric and pointedly observant; reading it felt like being told stories by your semi-estranged, witty aunt who you meet for the first time in adulthood and hit it off with immediately.