Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Library Edition

from rmckeown

Ages ago, a friend recommended Miami, an extended essay by Joan Didion. Try as I might, I could not keep my mind on the text. Something about the style drove me away. A page from my daily Book Lovers Calendar, a comment from my wife, and a book that had fallen behind a shelf all conspired to my r...

from rmckeown

Ages ago, a friend recommended Miami, an extended essay by Joan Didion. Try as I might, I could not keep my mind on the text. Something about the style drove me away. A page from my daily Book Lovers Calendar, a comment from my wife, and a book that had fallen behind a shelf all conspired to my r...

from nicholasjjordan

Joan Didion only came onto my radar with Year of Magical Thinking. This is one of those that made her reputation, and it's so good I wonder if the awards for Magical Thinking were more lifetime achievement awards rather than only earned on the merits of that book. I'll be reading her more.

from daisyq

All these essays are worth reading, but "Goodbye to All That" is perfect. I can't even pick a favourite quote, I keep wanting to quote the whole thing. It is such an amazing evocation of time and place, of what it means to shift into a different phase of your life and how it isn't obvious that yo...

from nudewoody

Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Joan Didion. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. Reviewed by Elwood Miller In Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion writes mostly of life in California. These essays are not only about place but also about the feeling of loss which often can accompany change...