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This short story packs a punch! It‘s been loitering on my “short audiobook” shelf - and I decided to listen to it to finish up my work day and 👀

Hilarious!
Thought this was fitting here with all the talk last week about this amazing (but not relaxing) story 😄

I haven‘t read this since college & have been wanting to revisit it, but the parallels between rest cures & pacing for chronic illness made it the scariest thing on my list & I wasn‘t sure if I was brave enough to pick it up. I‘m glad I did though both because it‘s a masterpiece of horror & feminist literature, & because my memory of it changed enough over the last few decades that it was like reading it for the first time all over again.

normalize women descending into madness

Well, that was weird and fascinating. #OverbookedClub @megnews @sblbooks

My high schooler is reading "The Yellow Wallpaper" for a class, and it turns out her BA-in-English mother has five copies of the story around the house. (I suspect the high schooler will read the one linked online by her teacher.)

Maybe I‘m just as deranged as the narrator, but she cracks me up. I remember reading this story in undergrad and it‘s very interesting. The narrator just seems so innocent until she‘s creeping over her fainted husband, which is truly just the funniest image.

#scarthalon #scarathlon2021 #teamhendrix #spookoweenreadathon #screamathon

I really wanted to like this collection, but it wasn't grabbing me. Since I'm in a reading slump it's time to move on.

It's been 8 years since I first read this. I can't imagine what it would be like being locked away and told to do nothing "stimulating" and just sit there and stress. It would drive the best of us mad. But of course, we're women so when have our illnesses been taken seriously?

This will count as my second read of the year. I read it on #serialreader and made the little thing on bookerly cause I really want to do the #pennyperpage thing seriously

This Penguin Little Black Classic consists of 3 short stories so in addition to The Yellow Wall-Paper, there‘s The Rocking Chair and Old Water.

All 3 are chilling and horrifying.

This story makes me shiver in so many ways.
It‘s sad that my first thought was that how we deal with mental illnesses absolutely hasn‘t changed in some aspects since 1892.

But I liked this short story. It reminded me of an “X-Factor”-episode where a kid turns into a doll, in the end. (That‘s what I recall, details may differ.)

I am sure this story will linger in my mind for a while.

👉🏼 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm

#GratefulReads - Day 12 - #ShortStory

Holy sh!t... I thought I would just casually read this while I was sipping on my coffee this morning seeing as it's only 16 pages. I was NOT prepared for that magnitude of insanity, and my mind is blown. If you haven't read this, I definitely recommend it. This is something that I'll think about a lot and probably teach in my future literature classes.

Laughing at myself because I ordered what I *thought* was a novel on Amazon for $1, and then I get the skinniest book I've ever seen. Someone published a 15 page short story on its own. 🤣 This is supposed to be a short story, right? Like it's not just a weird misprint, chapter preview thing?

A different interpretation of the #Yellow song lyrics. #JulyColdPlay

"The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight."

A great gothic literature read considered to be one of the first Feminist stories.

Mesmerizing

One of my favorite stories ever!! If you‘re looking for something short and mental, “The Yellow Wallpaper” is for you! 💛🧡🖤 #mentalhealthbooks #riotgrams

What a great book, the stories are beautifully written.