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A Thestral of a Book: Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking

June 4, 2019June 3, 2019 ~ Swapna ~ Leave a comment

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have experienced/are experiencing deep grief after the loss of a loved one
are a counselor or someone equally invested in human emotion
enjoy stream-of-consciousness writing

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Confession: The last couple days have been a busy, and I *may* have considered wiping off a hump from each of my M's to turn them into N's. I didn't. BUT WHAT IF I DID THOUGH

This book broke my heart. But I had an amazing reading experience with it, on so many levels: 1️⃣ I read this alongside Cheryl Strayed’s Wild. It was so odd to read such similar and different stories side-by-side. I left with a deep respect for the wilderness and humanity’s relationship with it, as well as the way literature fosters that relationship. 2️⃣ At the end of the school year, my juniors got to choose what book they wanted to read from our district reading list. Many of them chose Into the Wild. It was so fun to read alongside them, to ask them where they were, and to feel all the feels with them! 3️⃣ I’m a fiction person. I’ve been trying to read more nonfiction books over the past year, but I’m still wary of getting bored to death whenever I pick one up. Krakauer’s investigative, sympathetic approach to understanding Chris McCandless was captivating. Even though he stated at the beginning that Chris didn’t survive, I couldn’t help but wish he made it every time I turned a page. I still need to watch the movie! If you have read or watched Into the Wild, what did you think?

I got a little carried away with M.

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