
This book happened to be the first one for no particular reason. It was just on the pile of my books to read. It was one of the ones I recently received an email from the library about impending due date. On a scale from 1 to 10, I would give this book a 6. It's well-written by a proven author. However, the topic, the true story of her coping with grief after the loss of her husband of 40 years (John Gregory Dunne--also a writer) and her daughter's illness, is too up close and personal. Although it is a universal topic, it is too intimate for me at this point in time. I may return to this book at a later time in my life. Didion quotes lines of poetry dealing with grief and death and these stayed with me:
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum,
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
They are the "Funeral Blue"s lines from The Ascent of F6 by W.H. Auden.
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