A review by maggiechristo
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
3.0
So, I'm a little bit disappointed in this one.
I don't think this book is bad, by any means. Didion is a very skilled writer and I appreciate her reflections on her life, most of the time.
When I read The Year of Magical Thinking by Didion, the thing that deterred me from delegating it 5 stars was Didion's tendency to "flex" and talk about extravagancies in her life without any nuance.
I felt like that aspect was more severe in this book. The consistent tangents to talk about hanging out with famous people or the fact that she wrote the screenplay for A Star is Born (seriously, she won't let you forget that) took away from the parenting memoir (ish) at hand.
Also, I am 17 and childless so I don't think that the whole parenting thing really hit me the way it was supposed to.
Anyway, solid 3 stars.
I don't think this book is bad, by any means. Didion is a very skilled writer and I appreciate her reflections on her life, most of the time.
When I read The Year of Magical Thinking by Didion, the thing that deterred me from delegating it 5 stars was Didion's tendency to "flex" and talk about extravagancies in her life without any nuance.
I felt like that aspect was more severe in this book. The consistent tangents to talk about hanging out with famous people or the fact that she wrote the screenplay for A Star is Born (seriously, she won't let you forget that) took away from the parenting memoir (ish) at hand.
Also, I am 17 and childless so I don't think that the whole parenting thing really hit me the way it was supposed to.
Anyway, solid 3 stars.