I've been thinking a lot about travelling and books lately, as I get ready to depart for five days in Oregon. My focus will certainly be on my sister's wedding and quality time with friends and family, but I can't travel without something good to read, and the flight from Detroit to Portland is long enough to plow through an average sized novel.
Read more#ReadWomen2014: Joan Didion
Joan Didion eluded me for a long time, because she, along with Joyce Carol Oates, is a hugely prolific writer in so many different genres. I'm still too scared to deal with the Oates canon, but I've finally dipped my toes in the Didion waters. I started with Slouching Towards Bethlehem, one of her collections of early essays, mostly focused on California in the 1960s. It was a nice book to pick up after finishing Against Interpretation, as it followed a very similar structure. As I mentioned in that post, I love essay collections because they allow me to dive in and out of a book so easily, and I gulped Slouching Towards Bethlehem down over the course of a long weekend.
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