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[Non-fiction] My reading of this book follows right on the tails of 'The Year Of Magical Thinking' by the same author, in which her husband dies suddenly from a massive coronary. In that book, their daughter was hospitalized and in a coma from a severe infection. In this book, her daughter's poor he...
I wonder why I couldn't like it as much as The Year if Magical Thinking. As far as I remember the style is similar, but honestly Blue Night feels like a long & endless rambling & rantung on getting old & losing her child. I had a feeling that she's flabbergasted that all priviledged life didn't shie...
This is my first Didion. I came across her name while reading "The End of Life Book Club" and she got stuck onto my to-read pile. I didn't overly enjoy this book (who could?), but I can appreciate it for it's realism and honesty and poetic value.The text was very repetitive. Part of this is becau...
The book is only partly about losing her daughter, it is just as much about losing your sense of yourself, the body you trusted, the sharp mind, the memories, the anchor in life. At 75 Joan Didion face a lot of health problems and the moment that really touched me was her trying to figure out who to...
In BLUE NIGHTS Joan Didion writes about the aftermath of her adopted daughter's (Quintana Roo) death. This is as honest, probing and unflinching as only Didion gets. She asks herself the eternal question: 'Did I do the best I could for my daughter, was my love for her good enough?' These are the kin...
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