A review by ramonaleanna
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 by Anaïs Nin

challenging hopeful reflective slow-paced

3.75

Anais' style of writing has a lyrical quality, a lot of embellishment, without being vapid. I became fascinated with the way she sees things, her preoccupation with truth in contrast with the "fear of what happens to the truth in [her] mind, so fertile with inventions." She is a true pisces, a dreamer, and for that I love her despite her somewhat limited world-view. I do wish so much context of what was happening in her life wasn't edited out, like her apparent marriage and multiple affairs which were mentioned in other reviews and became ultra-apparent when the reader is plopped in the middle of her pregnancy and miscarriage toward the end.