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I feel like I learned everything and nothing about didion and babitz. Like I didn’t even learn how their relationship started and it’s already in trouble.

Reads more like a gossip column than an actual journalistic account, way too much speculation. Also, why is there a whole chapter speculating on John dunne’s sexuality and whether or not he was in love with eve (all the sources explicitly told her no but she still holds on to the theory somehow???)

It’s getting better but I cannot keep track of any of these people there’s way too many of them. And Lili def was influenced by lady whistledown

WHY DOES SHE ASSUME I KNOW WHO ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE I DONT!!!

Author has toned down the fangirlness…not sure about some of her reasoning and the people sort of blur together but she does make the parallels and dissimilarities between didion and babitz clear

The author wants to live inside eve babitz. On the other hand I do appreciate her doing the the biographical equivalent of an abstract.

Really interesting, memory-like

Very restless, almost floating

Slightly concerned about my own thought process

Just as good as I remember

Amazing so far, excited to see where it goes

It’s going back to the library 😭😭😭 but I put a hold!!! Anyways, really fascinating look at how different parts of textiles created entire fields (like chemistry and computation) and industries and how textile production affected human history.

So far really interesting

Stoner remains in the university, he never leaves to go find himself. It’s almost as though he’s limited himself by not experiencing other things. On the other hand, he survives the war. I relate to stoner’s de-identification with his family as a result of his education.

Really captivating prose

I have met all of these boys at one point or another

Really interesting so far

Really good so far, might be up there with role model

Hit or miss for the essays, may need to buy it as a book

I really love Didion’s writing style. I also love how she portrays California it’s almost like I’m back there.