sarahsadiesmith 's review for:

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

4.0

---

I like Joan. She wouldn't be the sort of writer you'd go to for a hug. She just sort of stands back and tells you things and is entirely clear sighted and astute about whatever she's choosing to write about. You'll either like her or you won't. Either way I imagine she'll hit on something about your own existence that you never realised yourself. She's a proper grown up, of which I'm not sure there's so many left. Although she's not here anymore either. Don't imagine she'd be a fan of nowadays somehow. But I'd like her here to write about it. 4/5 - not a 5 but some of the essays would be, I just wasn't in the venn diagram for a few of them.