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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
I wish I could give half stars, because this book is certainly better than a 3 but I wouldn’t go as far as a 4.
The book feels like grief itself: repetitive thinking and getting caught up in unexpected waves of emotion.
The book feels like grief itself: repetitive thinking and getting caught up in unexpected waves of emotion.
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Nej, det blev för mycket samma. Om sjukdomar, död och läkares ordinationer mm. Kände inte att berättelsen kom framåt eller väckte mitt intresse att ta reda på vad som skulle hända sen.
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slow-paced
Story time.
Back in my last two years in high school, I joined a book club. ‘The female writers book club’ which if you could guess by the name involved reading books by female authors only!
In my fifth year we had planned to read the White Album by Joan Didion, but ultimately decided against it because we didn’t have enough time.
So here I am with arguably her most popular book, ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’. Now I’m not really a nonfiction girlie, but I know that Didion is seen as the cool girl of the literary sphere and that anyone who reads Didion is a cool person, so that makes me a cool girl too!
(she says while in her pyjamas and gown at 14:40)
(she says while in her pyjamas and gown at 14:40)
Didion is the author that you would read while on the bus or train and feel smug about yourself while you watch others your age on their phones using Snapchat.
Please note: I’m in my pyjamas and gown
Now you may be wondering Rameen what can you say about a non-fiction that took you ages to read and even longer to review?
Honestly I have no idea (lol)
I liked the title of the book ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ it’s a very provocative title (not in a sexy way lol) it comes from the idea of Didion leaving her husband’s shoes out despite giving all his clothes away in the hopes he might need them when he returns (magical thinking).
It’s a good book don’t get me wrong I liked it. Honestly I don’t really know how to describe this book…
I guess it’s an examination of grief how it comes in ‘waves’, and how the process of grieving your husband and then grieving your child are very different. Even then I like how Didion sort of challenges the idea of the ‘process’ of grieving, how you are given a year to wallow then you should get on with it.
It’s an amazing book and I liked the fact that at the end of the book Didion doesn’t truly come to a conclusion but it’s the idea that she has to live with this grief that comes into and out of her life…
3/5
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challenging
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reflective
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Había leído otro libro de Didion, "lo que quiero decir" y no me había gustado. Eran ensayos pero aún así empecé este otro libro con pocas expectativas y la verdad es que me encantó. Es fuertísimo pero es sorprendente que aunque trate del duelo, se lea de principio a fin con una atención que no decae como si estuvieras leyendo una novela de intriga. Leo que algunos lectores encontraron frío el relato, desapegado. Me ocurrió todo lo contrario, está escrito con brutal honestidad, y no cae jamás en la sensibilería. Didion es cualquiera de nosotros frente a la pérdida de un ser querido. Solamente que ella escribe maravillosamente bien.