It is informative and a keen observer of various people she met. Other essays I love are The Women’s Movement, Georgia O’Keeffe, In the Islands, On the Morning After the Sixties, and Quiet Days in Malibu. The first essay I love, and it’s titled the same as the book. All of that list is from Slouching Towards Jerusalem.
My favorite essays are Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream, John Wayne: A Love Song, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, On Keeping A Notebook, On Morality, On Going Home, Letter From Paradise, Rock Of Ages, Goodbye To All That. The political essays were my least favorite because I am not a political reader (I don’t consider myself to be.) If I could ask her one question it would be: what stories did you not write (and wanted to) or have published? This reason is significant and can be overlooked by our saturated social media world where people tend to talk too much about some things and miss other ideas all together. For example, contemplating divorce, and the adopting of a child. Joan chose to write about certain life experiences. This is a generation of women who did not talk about the hard experiences and sufferings of life.
She wrote in hopes of understanding or at least as a way to process what had happened.Ĥ. She was encouraged to do so, but it took courage. She stretched her writing to beyond what she thought capable. She writes about subjects that are from personal experience or political or celebrities or true crime. We come across as people who don’t have much to talk about (people tend to overlook.) Yet, our inner dialogue and writings have much to say.ģ. We both had lengthy marriages to hot heads. She is a person I can related to, to an extent. She is a person I’d love to scan her bookshelves or listen to her talk about Ernest Hemmingway or George Eliot. She is someone I’d smile at if we met at a grocery store. I’m so thankful her nephew directed it.ġ. Several times I have watched the Netflix original, The Center Will Not Hold. I have read what I can find about her online. I’ve read some of the books in this volume before. I dislike the term fan because I have a mental image of an Elvis or Beatle’s fan screaming and crying and pulling on their hair. Joan Didion is one of my favorite nonfiction authors.
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