A review by korinnagarcia
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
It feels wrong to rate such a deeply personal book but I find that listening or reading about someone else's
experience with loss can be helpful with your own. This by all accounts should be a sad book and at times it is but the
tone in which Joan writes this book is light hearted, dead pan, and like a tribute to her husband and the life they lived
together. The way she researches and learns about all the medical terms for what her daughter is going through and
for what her husband went through is inspiring. "Read, learn, work it up, go to literature. Information is control"
Every time I think I can't become more of a fan of Joan Didion's writing, I read another one of her books and I'm
mesmerized by her all over again.
experience with loss can be helpful with your own. This by all accounts should be a sad book and at times it is but the
tone in which Joan writes this book is light hearted, dead pan, and like a tribute to her husband and the life they lived
together. The way she researches and learns about all the medical terms for what her daughter is going through and
for what her husband went through is inspiring. "Read, learn, work it up, go to literature. Information is control"
Every time I think I can't become more of a fan of Joan Didion's writing, I read another one of her books and I'm
mesmerized by her all over again.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content