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by Sylvia Plath
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Injoy's Blogs + Book Reviews
Injoy's Blogs + Book Reviews rated it 4 years ago
I read The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath to complete my 2015 special reading challenge for a book written by someone under the age thirty when it was written. It is an intense novel and one that seems hellish upon review. I gave this book five stars. It has a sharp hook in the beginning. I could relate...
Injoy's Blogs + Book Reviews
Injoy's Blogs + Book Reviews rated it 4 years ago
I read The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath to complete my 2015 special reading challenge for a book written by someone under the age thirty when it was written. It is an intense novel and one that seems hellish upon review. I gave this book five stars. It has a sharp hook in the beginning. I could relate...
Injoy's Blogs + Book Reviews
Injoy's Blogs + Book Reviews rated it 4 years ago
I read The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath to complete my 2015 special reading challenge for a book written by someone under the age thirty when it was written. It is an intense novel and one that seems hellish upon review. I gave this book five stars. It has a sharp hook in the beginning. I could relate...
Carmilla Reads
Carmilla Reads rated it 5 years ago
Esther is a young woman, a high achiever, who is crippled by the number of choices she feels are available to her. She is unable to commit to any single branch of possibility for fear that in specialising she loses the chance to explore other avenues. She admits that given the choice to live in the ...
runner
runner rated it 6 years ago
The story of Ester Greenwood is the story of a young girl trying to find her place in life. She wins a scholarship to work at a fashion magazine in New York and strives to live the perfect life with perfect friends, perfect career aspirations, perfect looks, and a I want it all now mentality. But ru...
Reading Slothfully
Reading Slothfully rated it 8 years ago
We begin with Esther Greenwood spending a summer month in New York acting as an editing intern at a fashion magazine along with a number of other young college women. Esther, it seems, is a very good student at one of the exclusive New England institutions for women. Likely, Smith College is the mod...
Silvie's bookshelf
Silvie's bookshelf rated it 8 years ago
great book! so sad I didn't start reading female writers sooner.
TeaStitchRead
TeaStitchRead rated it 8 years ago
Trigger Warning: attempted rape, numerous suicide attempts, and completed suicide I'm kicking myself for not reading this. I had such negative bias against this book, but it was wickedly funny and sharp, unromantic observances of life in 1950 (and a few that is still around in 2016). I am really g...
The Bent Bookworm
The Bent Bookworm rated it 8 years ago
I had resisted reading this for a long time, a little turned off by the idea of being inside a suicidal person's head. But someone gave me a copy and well, I felt I needed to read it because hey, great American literature!Well. All the feels. Really, all of them. I think at this point in my life I s...
Feminism in Cold Storage
Feminism in Cold Storage rated it 8 years ago
Loved this book, it definitely deserves it's place as a feminist classic. For a full review, follow the link.
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