A review by ilovewongkarwai
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

5.0

I can't believe she wrote these when she was in her 20s and early 30s. Didion makes me not want to stop reading about topics I wouldn't otherwise care about (hippies in San Francisco, a housewife who killed her husband for the insurance money, John Wayne and other old Hollywood stars). I do prefer the more personal essays (on keeping a notebook and the one where she talks about her life in New York were my favorites) but the whole collection is great.

Oh, and I found this gem which she wrote when she was my age: "I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be".