A review by aliangco
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

emotional inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Written so beautifully. So beautifully. I could listen to Joan Didion write about anything, seriously, give her anything to write about and I will read it. In this book, she writes about the loss of her husband, her throes of grief and mourning, and motherhood. I found that death no longer had its tragic and depressing spell thanks to her reflections and prose. She made death sound tangible and something that we could handle.  I'm not sure what else I could write to give this book on death any justice. 

I didn't expect to love it so much.