asiaroth's review against another edition
4.0
i enjoy how she recalls particular phrases and seems to obsess over them. motherhood and aging is difficult to approach and i admire her perspective.
hannahmadden's review against another edition
4.0
Joan Didion rocks my world yet again!!!
“When we think about adopting a child, or for that matter about having a child at all, we stress the "blessing" aspect.
We omit the instant of the sudden chill, the "what-if," the free fall into certain failure.
What if I fail to take care of this baby?
What if this baby fails to thrive, what if this baby fails to love me?
And worse yet, worse by far, so much worse as to be unthinkable, except I did think it, everyone who has ever waited to bring a baby home thinks it: what if I fail to love this baby?”
“When we think about adopting a child, or for that matter about having a child at all, we stress the "blessing" aspect.
We omit the instant of the sudden chill, the "what-if," the free fall into certain failure.
What if I fail to take care of this baby?
What if this baby fails to thrive, what if this baby fails to love me?
And worse yet, worse by far, so much worse as to be unthinkable, except I did think it, everyone who has ever waited to bring a baby home thinks it: what if I fail to love this baby?”
anaphabetic's review against another edition
4.0
No voy a mentir, según empecé el libro no me gustó nada (bueno, lo de las noches azules sí). Me parecía un estilo raro, inconexo, ¿por qué repite siempre las mismas frases? ¿Por qué me deja tantas preguntas a mi para contestarlas? Pero a medida que avanzaba en la lectura me dí cuenta de que no un estilo raro o inconexo o incompleto, era su estilo: directo, crudo, como si me lo estuviera contando a mi directamente. Podía ir viendo como ella se sentía, cuales eran los pensamientos que la perseguían en sueños, como tenía un vacío en el pecho y el miedo de la vejez presente. Porque en el fondo, este libro no es tanto sobre Quintana sino sobre como la propia Joan Didion se enfrenta cara a cara con la senectud, con la perdida de movilidad y de capacidades, y lo hace sola (se ve muy bien en cuando explica su dilema a la hora de dejar un número de emergencia en los hospitales).
Este libro era el primero que leía de Didion y me ha gustado mucho por su forma de transmitir de una forma tan real y directa sus sentimientos. Al final incluso le cogí cariño al estilo de narración así que probablemente estas Noches Azules no sean el último libro suyo que leeré.
Este libro era el primero que leía de Didion y me ha gustado mucho por su forma de transmitir de una forma tan real y directa sus sentimientos. Al final incluso le cogí cariño al estilo de narración así que probablemente estas Noches Azules no sean el último libro suyo que leeré.
ehulit14's review against another edition
2.0
I really did not like this book. While it was supposed to be about her daughter, it felt very self centered and flaunting of the lifestyle Joan didion had. The story was all over the place and did not feel cohesive
yourstrulyanabelle's review against another edition
4.0
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"This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days, the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the bright-ness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning."
"This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days, the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the bright-ness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning."
_sarah_reads_'s review against another edition
3.0
I have long enjoyed Didion’s writing but this did have a bit of an okay, boomer aftertaste.