The Year of Magical Thinking
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From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in excellent times and terrible–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a spouse or wife or child.
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having painstakingly loved ‘the white baby book’ let me just say I’m very disapointed with this shameless wallowing in self-pity in book fromat (this is her last book for me). sorry joan, but you’ll get no sympathy from me. i’m from a voilent land where i knew hardship since the earliest of infancy… maybe this is why I’m so digusted about dingdong’s public lamentation of her bourgeois problems.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I didn’t like it either, until I realized it’s not a book about grief, it’s a book about guilt.
See, Joan Didion is a psychopath who poisons her spouse with blended scotch – partially because he was apt suspicious of their daughter’s mysterious illness, but mainly because it was all part of her devious plot.
Joan had inflicted a terrible illness upon her young daughter through the use of rare and vicious biting insects that she had collected during her many exotic vacations. She originally conceives of the plot to slowly kill her daughter when she meets her future son-in-law and immediately becomes infatuated with him. She infects her daughter with a debilitating illness that would necessitate the two of them (Joan and the Son-in-law) spending a lot of time together, so that eventually he would fall in like with her, and they would glide to Hawaii for lunches and live in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for the rest of their lives.
I can’t wait for the movie!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I was completely turned off by the name-dropping and snotty tone of this book. Could this woman be any more removed from her feelings?! Self-pity party by a self-centered snob. What’s the huge deal here? Far better books on grief and mourning abound.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
How can I review this book when it has not yet been delivered to me? Where IS it, by the way?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I selected this book off of the library shelf. It took a day to read and is one of persons books you will forever reflect about. The leader has led a privileged life and despite that you can still sympathize with her for the sudden loss of her spouse in the midst of dealing with near death illness of her adult daughter. They seem to have led shallow lives — not the giving type of family tree. There is endless talk of expensive restaurants and celebrity places and name dropping. I could have done lacking that and just heard her feelings about losing her spouse. She really suffered a loss and it makes me glad I’m a Christian and am not faithless. The whole book is a weep for dependency on God first.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5