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April 27, 2007

California

My only problem with Joan Didion is that when I think about her too much, I start singing “Lydia the Tattooed Lady” with her name in place of Lydia’s. Otherwise I feel about Joan Didion something just short of worship, on the right side of sane. From that magical day four years ago when I first picked up Slouching Toward Bethlehem, I’ve had her voice in my head. I will reread her forever, but it thrills me that there is new reading still in the meantime.

All of this because I’ve just began Divisadero and I find myself in Didion’s California. And so how can I not read my new copy of Where I Was From next? I love the way one book suggests another.

I am concerned though, as Anna Karenina is lined up to be my May Classic and I have this terrible suspicion that I might not get to it….

2 thoughts on “California”

  1. Beth says:

    Love your taste in books.
    I just started Suite Francaise – what a marvellous book.

  2. Kerry says:

    You’ll enjoy it! It’s wholly enveloping, and a fine way to pass a sunny day.

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