A review by alisarae
South and West: From a Notebook by Joan Didion

Joan Didion takes beautiful notes and I wish my journal entries were as insightful and full of promise as hers. However, this is just a collection of notes and memories, snippets of conversations or passing billboards. It's not that motivating to keep reading to get to the next part because there isn't continuity. The most interesting part was her conversations with white people in Mississippi just after desegregation. Again, just snippets, and I wish there had been more there. She, from what I understand in this book, never wrote an essay on her experiences roadtripping through the South. Ah well.