I know, it's disgraceful that I could call myself a feminist and hadn't read this yet. Well, not entirely, but I totally get it. I finally picked it up as part of my Read Harder list, character with a mental illness. As with most of my fiction, I actually listened to the book rather than read it an...
The idea of The Bell Jar always seemed so... boring. The title alone elicits yawns. Plus it was an attempt to write a novel by a poet. And not just any poet, but Sylvia Plath. Now, in my head, Plath was born in the 1800s and was a boring and shy woman who locked herself in her house. It seems I...