Slouching Towards Bethlehem and Play It As It Lays
I’ve decided to review two of Didion’s works (partially because they have been waiting in my to-review stacks for a while, and partially because this is post #222).
1970
The year of 1970 CE.
Some facts about 1970:
- Earth Day is first celebrated
- Paul McCartney leaves the Beatles
- The Who performs at the Metropolitan Opera House
- The Kent State University shootings occur
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Martial law is imposed in Poland
- 28 victims of Thalidomide receive compensation
- Nelly Sachs dies
- E.M. Forster dies
- Yukio Mishima commits ritual suicide
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The Bluest Eye
There is no singular process that recommends a book to me or by which I choose what to read when. My reading tastes can change with a given day or even a given hour — which is why I tend to read about eight to ten books at once. This is a review of The Bluest Eye.