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Friday, December 02, 2005

the year of magical thinking

i've just started reading The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (page 55). It's heavy. The press release letter said that it has an uplifting aspect, which obviously i haven't gotten to.

but already i can say that it deserves all its accolades. On one hand her descriptions about grief are so numbingly eloquent. You just want to absorb her words from a craft standpoint. And on the other hand, because they are so eloquent, you want to forget them as soon as you read them because you don't want to visit or revisit such pain.

2 Comments:

At 8:09 AM, Blogger Mark Anthony Neal said...

Felicia,

I heard Didion on Fresh Air back in September and it just floored me. I'm hoping to steal some time between semseters to read The Year of Magical Thinking.

MAN

 
At 9:42 AM, Blogger Felicia Pride said...

i hope you can, it really makes you consider your own way of dealing with loss.

 

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