Southeast Steuben County Library Adult Book Club February Meeting Reminder

Hi everyone, February 1 is almost here and our next book club meeting is next Friday, February 11, 2022.

we’ll be meeting from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. in the Conference Room and copies of the March Read, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, will be available to checkout at the meeting.

Our February reads are Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion and the lovely, whimsical picture book Tuesday by David Wiesner.

Despite being less than two hundred pages, the Joan Didion book offers us a look into the mind and creative progression of the writer herself via 12 pieces she wrote between 1968 and 2000.

If you’d like to know to know more about Joan’s life, here are links to two interesting articles:

From The Guardian an overview of her life via her December 2021 obituary: Joan Didion obituary: Detached observer of American society and political life through her collections of journalism, novels and screenwriting

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/dec/23/joan-didion-obituary

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From Vanity Fair: How Joan Didion the Writer Became Joan Didion the Legend by Lili Anolik (2/2/2016)

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/02/joan-didion-writer-los-angeles

I also found the Atlantic review of a Joan Didion biography, The Elitist Allure of Joan Didion: A big biography looks at the author’s legacy of cool by Meghan Daum (September 2015), to be interesting:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-elitist-allure-of-joan-didion/399320/

(Note: The bio was written by Tracy Daugherty, and it can be requested through StarCat should anyone liked to read it!)

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Also of note, Beth H. watched the Netflix documentary on Didion, Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold and said it offered top-notch insight into Didion and her writing – so if you have Netflix and time before next Friday – check it out!

Have a great day,

Linda