The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion with Barbara Caruso (Narrator)

5 hours, 5 minutes first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack.This powerful and moving work is Didion...

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Moods

emotional 85%
reflective 84%
sad 78%
challenging 21%
dark 18%
informative 13%
inspiring 12%
hopeful 10%
tense 3%
funny 1%
relaxing 1%

Pace

medium 53%
slow 34%
fast 11%

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