pickThis was a great read. About a woman who refused to be stuck in a bad love story! Loved it.
Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted | 
pickThis was a great read. About a woman who refused to be stuck in a bad love story! Loved it.
#LiteraryLuck #RainbowStack #CatsofLitsy
Emmy had to monitor my book activities. She loves toppling stacks. 🌈🌈
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Well- there‘s a girl and my Barbies 😁❤️
Finished tagged book, read the other two and started a new audiobook 🤓 #12intwo
Really liking this. I‘ve read a lot of her poetry, letters & her diaries but never a biography of her. She was clearly very creative & clever from an early age.
“Plath was conscious of the fragility of her own identity and the ease with which her self could mutate from mask to mask. Reading her journals is like coming face-to-face with a multiplicity of fragmented selves.”
“Sometimes she chose words with disquieting connotations for their shock value. Often, however, the poetry reflected the turbulent process that was taking place beneath her placid exterior. At her core, Sylvia experienced a welter of raging emotions and violent impulses, and on the surface, to keep them in check, she wore the mantle of a bourgeois lady, as inhibiting and restraining as a straight jacket.“
“My mind keeps poisoning itself uselessly.”
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“How far my vicarious sharing of her agony went, she never knew—I didn‘t want to show her.”
—Aurelia Plath
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• I feel so sad for her poor mother. She wasn‘t blameless, but she still has some of my sympathy. Tbc in next post... •
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“She, of all people, knew of course, that one couldn‘t feel real ecstasy until one had endured the agony.”
• oh Sylvia, always building problems in her mind where they didn‘t have to exist. good philosophical questions tho •
• quite simply my favorite book at the moment. just wonderful •
On kindle U.K. offer today - #99ponkindle
If you want a good Plath biography this is definitely worth 99p!
“During the course of her short career, Plath sacrificed everything for her writing: her mental health, her close relationships, her life.”
“Yes; quaint and curious war is! / You shoot a fellow down / You‘d treat, if met where any bar is / Or help to half a crown.”
From “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy
“She would, she said, rather read a book—and let her imagination do the work—than go to a movie.”
#relatablemoments #truth
Despite her groomed appearance and perfect manners, inside Sylvia lurked confusion and disorder. As she wrote in a letter in August 1950, most people did not realize “the chaos that seethes behind my exterior.”
“She also expressed her desire to be a little bit insane. She bemoaned the fact that so few people had what she described as a kind of fire of divine insanity, a quality that had the power to transform the everyday into something extraordinary. The “girl who wanted to be God,” as she called herself in the same entry, aspired to transform herself into a psychotic deity. In many ways, Sylvia Plath did just that.”
“There was something sinister about popularity, something that leached a girl of her individuality.”
• She was such an emotional and psychological enigma •
• OH MY GOODNESS...I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH!!! So much love for Sylvia 💗 •
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“Looking back, perhaps she had too many.”
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• Sylvia Plath‘s imagination as a child...🤯 •
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• has anyone read this one? I'm gaga for anything about Sylvia...it's waiting on the shelf •
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Been obsessed with Sylvia and Ted since my teens.
Apologies for the terrible photography!
"I think I made you up inside my head"
pickThis bio focuses on Plath's life before she meets Ted Hughes-- something rarely seen in literature about her. A must read if you're a Plath fan/scholar!
The third book I'm currently reading. I knew nothing about the effect of Ted Hughes on her work and legacy, so this promises to be fascinating
