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Aug 12, 2023
Shares the author's frank observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent.
Jul 17, 2023GLAC_Shannon rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This book is mainly about Didion's daughter Quintana, their relationship, and Quintana's early death at age 39 after she suffered from many health issues. Additionally, Didion writes of many other difficulties and tragedies that have…
Dec 12, 2018motocaab rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Beautifully written in the Didion tradition. Finished in 1-2 sittings and re-read immediately just so to not miss any bits and to experience her words again. A powerful, tumultuous story tightly wrapped in carefully crafted cadence.
Jul 15, 2013
so disapointing after the year of magical thinking. read this while dad was dying. about her daughter, but not really enough. should've been more about quintana and less of joan's ruminations....
kelleypoole
Dec 26, 2012kelleypoole rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
I am much too fond on details and information to relish this book. I would've liked to know what happened to her daughter but instead had to string together some frayed pieces and create my own picture. It was too repetitive and…
Sep 09, 2012
old age
Jul 30, 20124ntrvlr rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A poignant, moving meditation on memory, loss, adoption, death and aging. She has the skill to observe her own pain and we share it with her.
Jul 20, 2012richibi rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Didion has written an extended poem as an elegy for her deceased daughter, and as, perhaps prematurely, a swan song for herself, it is a beautiful, haunting reminiscence, from a poet who has not lost her stride
Jul 02, 2012FlagrantMary rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Lovely thoughts on aging and death. Good companion piece to the excellent "The Year of Magical Thinking".
Mar 11, 2012LazyNeko rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I'm not a fan of the rambling, repetitive, scattered style in which the author expresses her thoughts on old age. Then again, it is an appropriate fit for her theme. The wistful longing for her dead daughter is heartbreaking.
hutchinsjeremy
Jan 18, 2012hutchinsjeremy rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The best book about Silence going into old age and, eventually, non-existence, I've ever read.
ksoles
Jan 01, 2012ksoles rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
"Blue Nights" both begins and ends in colour, when the days shorten and “twilights turn long and blue.” Such blue light becomes Joan Didion's vehicle to articulate the intense beauty and pain that accompany awareness of imminent loss.…
Aug 18, 2011
"Didion has produced five mostly acclaimed novels over the past four decades, but much of her best work has been reportage, both as an essayist and journalist. In what sounds like a sequel of sorts to The Year of Magical Thinking, which…