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A review by maddyreads89
The White Album by Joan Didion
reflective
tense
slow-paced
3.5
Lots of great stuff (Didion’s exploration of setting, the clarity and specificity of her prose, the exploration of narrative), but also a lot of frustrating bits, notably the explicitly political essays (looking at you “The Women’s Movement”). Overall, I love the style of Didion’s writing, but I don’t know enough about the 60s and 70s to be sure that she isn’t talking out of her a** like 50% of the time (*cough* “The Women’s Movement”)