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Quaranta anni insieme, 24 ore al giorno: perché moglie e marito sono scrittori e sceneggiatori e giornalisti – a volte lavorano insieme allo stesso film, per lo più ciascuno porta avanti la sua scrittura – ma lui è il primo lettore di lei, e viceversa – il primo lettore di una nuova opera, ma anche semplicemente di un articolo di giornale, di un pensiero, un’annotazione. Tra John e Joan lo scambio è continuo, quotidiano, insistito, profondo. Lei non ha conservato lettere di lui: semplicemente perché non si sono mai scritti - stavano sempre insieme, non ce n’era motivo – durante le rare separazioni, le salate bollette del telefono sostituivano la corrispondenza. This memoir was not a slam-dunk for me, but I do have great compassion for Ms. Didion's terrible loss and I have found myself kissing my family members more often on the cheeks this week. Sometimes it's good to be reminded that we could lose our loved ones at any time. I would imagine that the hardest part about being separated, divorced or widowed after so many years with a partner would be the living alone, and she captures this feeling ever so poignantly here: i84650473 |b1100040362433 |dmv89 |g- |m |h2 |x0 |t0 |i0 |j18 |k140712 |n12-19-2017 18:24 |o- |aB GRA |u1100040362433mv89099B GRA18351klp20.001q11.69

The only criticism that I might have is that there's a lot of name dropping. Insert famous names and some fancy locations (Beverly Hills, Malibu), talk about using fine china, fancy bathrobes from some store I'll never set foot in... Normally, that would drive me mad. (rich or poor, like that one book says, everybody poops!) However, I never felt with her that the name dropping was pretentious, or snobbish. The people and places she named were simply a part of her life, so who am I to hold that against her? To call Joan Didion cold or even heartless - true as it may be in the light of The Year of Magical Thinking, this monument to the analytical dissection of grief - is itself a cold and heartless condemnation. We all grieve in our own way. This is hers.You have to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He [John] told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that. didion’s writing is a master class in the art of brevity, her exploration of grief cutting to the bone with its honesty and frankness, while her vulnerability allows the reader to follow along on her journey to try and make sense of such a sudden, debilitating loss. as she has been taught to do since childhood, didion takes refuge in literature, analysing grief and citing research on its effects. she desperately seeks the answers for the question of self-pity and to understand grief itself, and in so doing, allows the reader to understand it a little better too. some of her observations re: various attributes and issues that sound privy to those on the Spectrum can also affect many normal people the same way. I often questioned myself that if this was the case, perhaps I'm on the Spectrum as well? I have a grubby Post-it note by the side of my bed on which I've written in pencil: loss is not always death. i133912796 |b3325301123879 |ddcanf |g- |m |h24 |x0 |t0 |i0 |j300 |k201210 |n03-17-2018 10:00 |o- |a616.89 GRANDIN

Some foraged foods can be eaten as they are. Others need to be processed and preserved. But this process in itself is almost meditative. The weighing, cleaning and chopping; stirring, heating and potting is a process in which you can really lose yourself. The Year of Magical Thinking felt real, not watered down. If you like feeling things deeply, this is your book. So, here’s an enigma: Can cynics really believe in magical thinking? What is magical thinking anyway? I mean… yeah, I’ve read the Psychology Today articles, I’ve gone to freedictionary.com. Is it something that can actually be described or do you need to experience to fully get it? Talk to me. The book is, understandably, not linear. Because her thinking is associative, the book is also structured associatively. Each chapter contains a mishmash of memories, research and reflections centred around a unifying theme. As a result, it is sometimes repetitive; anecdotes that have already been told keep resurfacing with undeserved momentum in later sections. There are also points where I can almost see the hands of the editor desperately pulling the brakes on her train of thought, as it risks careening completely off-topic.It’s always good to challenge your brain and identifying a berry or flower that you’ve found poses just such a challenge. Disclaimer: Being fresh into the grieving process myself, you may want to skip this review and head onto others. Undoubtedly I'll purge my grief in a review about a book on grief. You've been warned. Joan Didion's daughter Quintana fell gravely ill and was hospitalized with a serious infection. She was placed in a medical coma and put on life support. Only weeks later, Joan's husband, John Dunne, was speaking with her from their living room after visiting their daughter in the hospital, stopped mid-sentence and keeled over dead on the floor of a massive coronary. Four weeks later, Quintana pulled through and revived, but only two months after that, she collapsed from a massive brain hematoma. How does that mess with your grief process? Does it make it easier? Worse? In my mind as I moved things out I could say I was simply moving her into a new apartment. Magical thinking.

This is a good, not great, book. So why 4-stars and not 3? The subject matter. I have never seen someone better walk through Autism and the way autistic people think and relate it so clearly to the way "normal" folks think. With a cow's view and her connection to animals, Temple has helped improve the treatment of animals before slaughter. But even more than this being her legacy of which she is most proud, Temple helps teachers understand the importance of understanding autistic children: So simply being amongst trees is incredibly good for you! And if you’re brave enough to slip off your shoes and do it bare-foot then the effects are even greater. Some societies use Oxford Academic personal accounts to provide access to their members. See below. Joan Didion e Vanessa Redgrave che ha portato sul palcoscenico la versione teatrale di questo memoir.Temple has always identified with animals, in their thinking and their behavior. As a child, she was like an animal that had no instincts to guide her; She learned by trial and error. All her life, she has been an observer, always on the outside. Temple did not know how to calm herself when she was young. She hated being hugged; It was too overwhelming. Temple, craving pressure to calm her down, designed a device, much like a cattle squeeze chute that she saw at her aunt's ranch in Arizona. She would lie in the squeeze chute and start to play with the pressure that would give her the most comfort. For the first time, Temple became relaxed, calm, and serene. This was Temple's first connection between cows and herself. (Cows relax in these squeeze chutes before they receive vaccinations). I mostly agree with her. But in full disclosure, there was relief for me. I would not have to watch my mom waste away for weeks (MONTHS!) in a nursing home. Release? Yes and no. Resolution? No way.

This is not, as I once suspected, a self-help book, and there aren't, as I once thought, tips here on how to embrace magical thinking. i71531750 |b1030003121242 |dcmg |g- |m |h2 |x1 |t0 |i2 |j18 |k120604 |n10-21-2022 20:23 |o- |aRC553 .A88 G74 2006 there is nothing sentimental about this memoir, though it easily could be. instead, the memoir feels like a combination of reading didion's diary and also following her every action. she tells us of every thing she does to try to understand her husband's death and daughter's illness, relying primarily on science for her answers, which she does not find. Six months ago, when Joshua was still very much alive and texting me daily about Sooner football and/or Chinese food (his favorite), this would have been a sad book to read. Three months ago, when I was divvying up his urned ashes between myself, his mother, his best friend Tony, and his beloved Aunt Pam, this would have been an impossible book to read. But now, in the midst of my own year of magical thinking, I find Joan Didion cathartic, helpful even. Peppered throughout is Temple Grandin's love of cows and other animals (but mostly cows). She's made her career helping ranchers, butchers, and milkers keep their animals calm and cooperative. It's interesting stuff, for sure.

Joan’s daughter Quintana recovered but then became seriously ill a few months afterwards and so life continued with its anguish. Joan was left with the thought that she was there during her daughter’s illness but she would soon have to let go as Quintana had recently married. And what was Joan going to do with her life. I still have the same problem. i44139500 |b1010001877157 |das |g- |m |h11 |x0 |t0 |i11 |j18 |k050204 |n04-20-2021 16:54 |o- |aRC553.A88 G74 1996 Joan has other tragedies… memories that stretch out to before I was born. She is insightful in such creative, tenacious, concise ways that sometimes I just want to curse her for bringing me there… for making me believe and start to question every action/memory/event of the last 20 years looking for the damn signs… because they were there, right? My first complaint: the incessant name-dropping. Boy howdy, do I hate name-dropping, and I'm encountering it more and more in memoirs lately. Ms. Didion, for whatever reason, wants you to know that she hangs out with famous people, stays at fancy hotels, and she didn't drive a car, she drove a Corvette.

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