pickIt‘s taken me the better part of a year to read this, but I am glad I waited until I was in a good headspace. Reading her final letters was still devastating. Now that I have spent a fair amount of time reading both volumes, I can say that no other writer reflects my thoughts as well as Sylvia. To read her letters is to affirm her existence as more than “the patron saint of weird literary girls.”
I think I‘m finally in the right headspace to read this. Plus I‘ve got tons of time, so a 1,000+ page book will keep me plenty occupied.
And I still love you Sylvia 🤷♀️😁
I do cringe sometimes at some of her letters- especially as some of the people involved would have still been alive when these were first published. They weren‘t actually written to be published. But I‘m still reading.
Hello to the rest of my weekend 👍🏻
Don‘t know if you saw this tacky (to put it mildly) Glamour article about Sylvia Plath. 😦
Unbookish post....If you don‘t watch The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, you must! It is smart and hilarious. One funny bookish moment this season is when a woman listening to Mrs. Maisel deliver an impromptu comedy set gives her a business card for a psychiatrist saying, “He‘s done wonders for my friend Sylvia Plath.”
NOT a ringing endorsement, actually!
One day, "cowlike & cabbagey" after Frieda's birth, Plath went downtown & "bought three 2-yard lengths of material":
"One bright Red Viyella (at $1.50 a yard), one bright blue linen, & one soft Wedgwood blue flannel with stylized white little flowers on it (both about 50 cents a yard). I also got a dress pattern & nightgown pattern (Simplicity). I am awfully proud of making clothes for little Frieda."
Plath's last letters - https://bit.ly/2z61pwy
The second volume of Sylvia Plath's letters came out today! I love her so much 💕 and I absolutely can't wait to sink into this almost thousand page tome!
Stolen from the Obvious State instastory...very apropos today as it has been damp and rainy!
I can‘t believe this is already happening so soon after Vol 1! Coming October 30th!! http://amzn.to/2oYe7sh #TBRtemptation #SylviaPlath #IsItOctoberYet
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