183 reviews for:

Where I Was from

Joan Didion

3.79 AVERAGE

rosemarieshort's review against another edition

4.0

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Didion is a keen observational mind - reading her works is like sitting down for a conversation with the most interesting person you've ever met. What begins as her thoughts on the Donner party, the prison system in California, a college football sex scandal, weave together to explore the question this memoir is based around - where she was from. She wonders and thinks in an engaging way, her writing as ever sharp and tight with not a word out of place.

kaaaaallan's review

2.5

informative slow-paced

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I only liked certain chapters (prisoners, asylum, and her mother)

jikei's review against another edition

1.5

informative reflective slow-paced

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Usually a fan of Didion, but this just wasn’t for me. Excellent source of information on the history of California. 

atticmoth's review against another edition

3.0

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Only mildly interesting until the heartbreaking last section. “There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.”

hannahmadden's review against another edition

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Learning about California through the words of Joan Didion

arifairy's review against another edition

3.0

challenging informative slow-paced

yourstrulyanabelle's review against another edition

3.0

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this must have been Lady Bird's college essay bc she "writes about Sacramento so affectionately and with such care"

hannah850's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

esterlegaz's review against another edition

2.5

informative slow-paced

lenasch's review against another edition

4.25

informative reflective medium-paced