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4.12 AVERAGE
4.12 AVERAGE
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There's no one like Sacramento native Joan Didion to provide a unique perspective in her essays about California in the 1960s.
adventurous
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Love her voice and insights- especially on keeping a notebook and goodbye to all that (except for notes from a native daughter tbh)
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inspiring
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As sad as it is, this did not hit in all the right ways as the other books by Didion I have read. Except for a couple personal essays, most of these were a very, very in depth analysis of the US, especially areas of Los Angeles and California which were sadly somewhat far-removed from my full understanding. They describe a very different time of a very distant place which I could often not relate to and unfortunately had not enough interest in. Nevertheless, you can still see this ridiculous talent of observation that Didion has and a way of thinking that probably nobody in this world shares. Made me think a lot about the US and why it’s its own entity. A world does not exist beyond the US because people there seem to be fully content with dwelling on their own country which seems so de-compartmentalised that one could spend their whole life trying to understand it. I loved the personal essays the most and the ones in which Didion includes herself in the narrative because that’s when she really seems to shine. Some texts though were so inaccessible I had a hard tome getting through them.
challenging
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challenging
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funny
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informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
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"I recall waiting in one of them to watch an astronaut go into space, waiting so long that at the moment it actually happened I had my eyes not on the television screen but on a cockroach on the tile floor."
Just so beautiful and easily read with essays I will return to forever
Just so beautiful and easily read with essays I will return to forever