The White Album
by Joan Didion
This is going to be a much less insightful review than an intensely insightful book deserves, but oh well. Her essays are pretty hit or miss for me---some of them are just fantastic (especially the ones with historical relevance), and some of them just don't do it for me (her knotty internal world can be interesting to me in an academic way, but I don't think like that and I don't want to).