elissa's review
The White Album
by Joan Didion
elissa's review
The White Album by Joan Didion
elissa's review
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Last year I read Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking," along with the rest of the world (one of those books everyone was reading on the subway), and then I read "Where I Was From", "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," and now this. So much about so many things--the J. Paul Getty Museum, water in California, freeways in LA in the 70's, all so California and so of the 60's and 70's, and from a viewpoint that is intelligent and informed and opinionated and not toeing any lines. Sometimes reading this I think I want to be Joan Didion. Except not. And I couldn't anyway--she is speaking so specifically from her time and place and world of experience and point of view. That is what is so great about her--her writing is well-researched, thorough, thoughtful, AND makes no attempt to be or to appear "neutral."
