A review by ysabellabeya
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

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See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going through the motions of doing what I am supposed to do, which is write.

"Groovy."

"Slouching Towards Bethlehem" by Joan Didion is my first entry of her astonishing works. As we are Sagittarius moons alike, I look up to her so much and I am willing to learn how she pushed the boundaries of journalism.

I am more drawn to the personal essays than the first section and third section. I love the 'One Self-Respect' piece the most. 

FAVORITES "Life Stamps In The Golden Land:" Marrying Absurd, Slouching Towards Bethlehem,  7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38,  Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream, Where The Kissing Never Stops

FAVORITES "PERSONALS:" On Keeping a Notebook, On Self-Respect, On Going Home, I Can't Get That Monster out of My Mind

FAVORITES "Seven Places of the Mind:" Goodbye to All That, Notes from a Native Daughter, Los Angeles Notebook

Joan Didion is one of the inspiration and role model I look up to and respect the most. Rest easy, angel.  

The dismal fact is that self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others--who are, after all, deceived easily enough; has nothing to do with reputation, which, as Rhett Buder told Scarlett O'Hara, is something people with courage can do without.