Reviews

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

sereia8's review against another edition

4.0

Beautiful literary writing. Moving.

nrmdova's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

There’s nothing to say that hasn’t already been said about TYOMT. It was beautiful and reflective and my chest panged with nearly every page. She managed to transcribe grief and mourning and the mental absurdities throughout the process. 

alexisdoingok's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

25_sage_reads_25's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

caseyaonso's review against another edition

4.0

for once in your life just let it go!!!!!!

mar555m's review against another edition

4.0

[4.5 stars] ‘In retrospect this had been my omen, my message, the early snowfall, the birthday present no one else could give me.
He had twenty-five nights left to live.’

cparks2008's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

cryingcowboy's review against another edition

5.0

the most poetic form of reasoning and rationalizing her grief and loss. i will be re-reading this a few times next year.

rensparks's review against another edition

4.0

“Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time”

raquelf's review against another edition

3.0

Uma parte de mim, não queria começar o novo ano. Queria permanecer continuamente em 2023. Em 2023, duas das pessoas com quem eu mais gostava de partilhar as minhas conquistas despediram-se de mim para viver o que chamam a vida eterna. Fazer a transição para 2024 era deixar de viver num ano em que existimos todos ao mesmo tempo. Em 2023, eles ainda estavam aqui.

É sobre isto que Joan Didion fala. Conseguiu pôr por palavras o que sentia.

Ninguém quer viver para lá de quem ama. Conseguir escrevê-lo é saber senti-lo. Saber sentir é saber viver.