The White Album: Essays by Joan DidionMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
You have to like a book that starts with the author detailing and analyzing her own psychiatric report. Interesting essays about the California Governor's Residence, lifeguarding, Hawaii, Hollywood, the Hoover Dam. There's a quote that I think perfectly encapsulates my interest in, and fascination with, Didion:
"I want you to understand exactly what you are getting: you are getting a woman who for some time now has felt radically separated from most of the ideas that seem to interest other people."
Keenly observant of others and revealing of herself.
Interestingly, Martin Amis discusses this volume of essays in The Moronic Inferno.
Cover Distraction Rating: Low. Though the photo of Didion sitting in the driver's seat of a car with the t-tops off, cigarette perched in her right hand, is pretty cool. Beatles fans may wonder if it's about The White Album. Spoiler alert: it's not though the Manson family is discussed.
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