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summer required reading for adult girls in their 20s 📚
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items growing up, my favorite part of summer was getting required reading for school. here is what I’m currently reading, what I’ve read this summer, and what’s on my wtr list! this is the summer of reading books written before the year 2000, for me.
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first capote book for me, and it won’t be my last. very captivating, true crime.
In Cold Blood: Truman Capote: 9780679745587
she is my queen. my icon. my reason to keep doing what I do. I’m a student journalist and when I found out about joan didion recently, I haven’t stopped wanting to know about her, wanting to know her. it’s an obsession!!! I wish she was still here wi...
JOAN DIDION | The Official Website | joandidion.org
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very modern take on the romance novel. trigger warning to beautiful girls: reddit is a core part of the story
Books - Just for the Summer: Jimenez, Abby
this was the first of hers I read! I love her style of writing, and learning about pinnacle events in the ‘60s!
White Album (FSG Classics) by Joan Didion
this was probably the most poignant and well-put together set of essays I’ve read of hers so far. john wayne, howard hughes and the haight-ashbury district don’t seem to have much in common, but she connects them with such grace that you can see they...
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics)
loved this, as always, as it is joan didion. why I write really solidified my respect for her, especially as the very-much-seen narrator of many of her novels and essays. we’re taught in english class, and even in journalism school to keep ourselves ...
Let Me Tell You What I Mean: Didion, Joan
I do have to say this book was confusing at times. I think that was how it was intended— for you to put together the pieces, for you to go back once you know what happened to Dick McMahon and say oh, that was foreshadowed. in that way, it was beautif...
The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion
I won’t lie about this book. I feel slightly off about reading it after learning halfway through reading that the author didn’t contact the real victim’s family about the book— it follows the same story, with some supernatural elements added in. she ...
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González
possibly the best book I read this summer, and will stay at the top of the list. at first, I didn’t really think it was that interesting. but when I got to the end of the book, it got exciting, and when I finished it I realized I wanted more. I went ...
White Teeth: A Novel: Smith, Zadie - Books
joan didion’s telling of grief is not only moving, but intriguing. I felt myself inside her head and inside her grieving process. the way she told things, not in sequential order all the time, a little bit all over the place, a spotty memory that ca...
The Year of Magical Thinking: Joan Didion
this book was really good, and I watched “a woman’s face” with ingrid bergman shortly after, and realized I LOVE a scheming queen on the screen (or on the pages)!!!
Sheep's Clothing by Celia Dale
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I’m really excited to read this. After reading her essays “on keeping a notebook”, I want to see more of her thought process and what was going on in her mind, since she said it’s the most accurate representation of a person’s mentality.
South and West: From a Notebook by Joan Didion
all of her books, really. but I want to get through joan didion first (extensive list).
Eve's Hollywood (New York Review Books Classics)
I don’t know if I can do another sad book after the year of magical thinking, but I’ll give it a shot…
Blue Nights: A Memoir: Didion, Joan: 9780307387387