September 27th, as precisely as possible

Christa Wolf wrote this in the preface to One Day a Year, 1960-2000:
“In 1960, the Moscow newspaper Izvestia issued a call to the writers of the world, one that instantly appealed to me—they were to describe one day of that year, the 27th of September, as precisely as possible. It was a relaunch of the ‘One Day in the World’ project begun by Maxim Gorky in 1935, which had not gone unnoticed but was discontinued at the time. And so I sat down and described my 27th of September 1960.”
That first year she wrote about getting her daughter, Tinka, ready to see a doctor about her sore foot.
And then she wrote about September 27th every year, for 51 years, from 1960 until 2011.
From a review in the LA Times:
“She’s able to paint the intimate details of her life against a larger political and intellectual backdrop of which she herself, as the preeminent writer of East Germany...was very much a part. But though politics and other aspects of public life inevitably feature in these entries, Wolf is most concerned with tasks of writing, with reading, family, and domestic chores or pleasures, such as what her husband Gerd will cook for lunch, how long a nap she has taken, and what she watched on television.”
It’s a brilliant read; sharp, fragmentary and subtle. As the LA Times put it, it’s an attempt “... to capture what the Stasi could not: “real life,” the texture of daily existence, its mushy transience and essential subjectivity”