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4.12 AVERAGE
4.12 AVERAGE
When she started talking about writing in her journal I lost interest.
Girly is too smart for me after a gin and tonic perhaps but she is very good and I will definitely read more of her.
She is sad though, there is definitely such beauty in the sadness though. Very exquisitely controlled sentences, tight writing style.
Part II was definitely the best collection and I will reread them for sure.
She is sad though, there is definitely such beauty in the sadness though. Very exquisitely controlled sentences, tight writing style.
Part II was definitely the best collection and I will reread them for sure.
This books re-read factor is stronggg wow I found myself often going back to certain essays and getting more from them everytime. There were passages in each essay that resonated with me, but I think my overall favorites were: Some dreamer of the golden dream, slouching towards Bethlehem, on keeping a notebook, on self respect, the sea coast of despair and goodbye to all that. I know I will continue to revisit this book in years to come and get something new from it everytime, particularly as some essays went over my head or I didn’t read some as closely as others. Even when I didn’t fully understand her references, Didions stories and ideas captured me completely. I also thought the part in “where the kissing never stops” where she talks about Baez’s vagueness around her beliefs was interesting because that’s something I really liked ab this book, the assuredness with which didion writes. Overall this was super inspiring and interesting to me and I can’t wait to read more of her work.
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Brilliant prose stylist, questionable on race and politics, classic white boomer lady, but captures a feeling of a certain kind of 30 year old woman quite well and true and with beautifully crafted sentences. The first piece on the murder, the story Slouching Towards Bethlehem, and Goodbye to All That were the standouts.
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“On Keeping a Notebook” is gonna get me out of bed on bad days for a v long time. Didion’s keenness for tracking the currents of society & reinterpreting intertextuality for postmodernity…..idk it is just spectacular
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with every book i fall harder for didion’s writing
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