NewMexiKen completed Joan Didion’s Where I Was From last evening, the second book in two days in an effort to read five books in five days. This really superb book incorporates history, memoir, journalism, literary and art criticism to examine California, then and now, real and imagined. The result is a rare combination of insightful analysis and personal feeling. Outstanding.
I’ll include two passages in separate entries.
NewMexiKen began book three last night, The Jefferson Bible, but after 50 or so pages realized that, though interesting, the book really doesn’t fit into the scheme of five books in five days. I will substitute something else for day three.