"I just finished reading
Let Me Tell You What I Mean, it’s a new collection of pieces written by Joan Didion, 12 in total, from the early years of her career. Usually with essay collections I read one or two a night with a glass of wine when I get home from work, but with this book I caved and read it all across one afternoon and night. Her writing is just so funny, so smart and she has a way of examining both big and more mundane issues through a completely different lens to other writers.
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"The essay topics are pretty wide ranging. She writes about everything from the time she dropped into a meeting of recovering gambling addicts to being rejected by her dream college, her years at