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"She's never read any Didion outside of that one 'on self respect' essay and genuinely I Don't know what she loves so much about her since she does not know her, but she buys very specific covers of her books for her clear glass coffee table and reposts lots of 'books for ____ girls' videos that alwa"
"With a very low pulse I lick it from the bowl like a lizard and ask myself how and why Joan Didion never addressed her anorexia or the fact that her daughter died of hardcore alcoholism and not some kind of mystery disease. Then she went on and wrote stuff about what a horrible mother she was and ho"
"Joan Didion - almost finished with Slouching Towards Bethlehem, not sure if I should get The White Album next or go straight to The Year of Magical Thinking. I like her writing style, but don't really give a shit about California."
"she's like if a glass of organic wine had anxiety about being too performatively feminine so it started reading joan didion out loud on instagram live."
"Read this for the first time just now. Really good and seems so relevant to this era, where people tend to self victimise and not accept that challenges are just part of any endeavour. There's a part at the end where she mentions people getting so anxious about an unopened letter they just freak out"
"Over the past few months /r/RSBookClub has read Hrabel's *Too Loud a Solitude*, Didion's *Slouching Towards Bethlehem*, Houellebecq's *Elementary Particles*, Bulgakov's *The Master & Margarita*, and Tolstoy's *The Death of Ivan Ilyich*."
"When your young uncle dies of cancer and you pull out The Year of Magical Thinking just for Joan Didion to die within 24 hours later. Let us not forget Babitz. I'm so ridiculously sad today. Rest In Peace to everyone we ever loved and inspired us."
"I saw it recommended in the sub a while back and I had it in my bookmarks. Just read it there and I thought it was worth sharing. Last 2 paragraphs strike me as particularly insightful."
"every BPD white woman can be categorised as a Joan... it's up to you to work out if she's Rivers, Baez, Jett, Didion, or of Arc"
"Obv Didion did grief the best, but that's not quite the same."
"One of my favourite photos of Joan Didion"
"but it makes sense why a pretty girl would go with some dude who is kinda feminine and reads Joan Didion. there's a chance he's insidious, but then what's the alternative? quiet guy with brooding temperament who is secretly an intellectual"
"Also I met up with a friend this afternoon and he gifted me Magical Thinking, hope to start that soon. RIP to a real one"
"the smarter ones will have gone to college with a macbook adorned in RBG and Taylor Swift stickers, both women of similar significance/caliber to her. maybe has an opinion on Joan Didion; doesn't understand why bell hooks is all in lower case."
"Excerpt from "On self-respect", which is short and sweet but one of her absolute best. Ignore the highlighting, it dates back to when I was a very easily impressed teen trigger-happy with the highlight feature."
"I'm clearing out my bookshelf for gifts to some of my departing 12th graders. Grabbed this to thumb through a bit before she's off to a fresh mind. Goddamn, Didion is a masterclass in storytelling."
"I saw it recommended in the sub a while back and I had it in my bookmarks. Just read it there and I thought it was worth sharing. Last 2 paragraphs strike me as particularly insightful."
"Obv Didion did grief the best, but that's not quite the same."
"One of my favourite photos of Joan Didion"
"but it makes sense why a pretty girl would go with some dude who is kinda feminine and reads Joan Didion."
"She's evidently popular on this sub, and I understand why she's popular, but can someone who knows more than me explain why she's lionized to the huge extent that she is. Her restrained prose definitely stands out, given the era in which she was reporting."
"Excerpt from "On self-respect", which is short and sweet but one of her absolute best."
"Goddamn, Didion is a masterclass in storytelling."
"McCarthy, Roth, Didion, Updike, whoever…every post about them will have like 30 comments max"
"Lili Anolik being so mean spirited towards Joan Didion was really off-putting to me"
"I read Joan Didion's essay "self-respect" as I've been on an essay kick lately."