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Glasklokken | Sylvia Plath
I 1953 vinder den 19-�rige Esther Greenwood en m�neds praktikophold i New York p� et modemagasin. Som del af en gruppe talentfulde unge kvinder bliver hun indlogeret p� hotel og inviteret ind i New Yorks fashionable verden med modeshows (…more)
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A true depiction into the human psyche as to what it is to live in a mind that is depressed of joy and meaning. Being mentally ill can sometimes be worse than being physically ill and it is most definitely something that society in general but especially here in the states should be taken more seriously. Further funding needs to be pushed towards research on mental health and mental health services. An artist lost prematurely to suicide.

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Deblovestoread Oh to be young again and eat whatever I want😂 but I don‘t think I want avocado with claret sauce 😬 4h
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BarkingMadRead @Deblovestoread yeah that would be a hard pass for me, too 🤣 4h
Bookwormjillk The whole avocado pear terminology confused me for a hot minute. Then they put grape jelly in it and then I was really confused. Moving on.

As a teen I probably sympathized with Ester but I think I'm Jay Cee years old because man it frustrates me to supervise people who just want to be brilliant but not actually work. Good for her eating that caviar though.
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Cuilin @Deblovestoread I also was wistful for the eat whatever I want days. 4h
Cuilin I think chemistry formulas made me dizzy too. 4h
Cuilin @Bookwormjillk the grape jelly really threw me. 🥴 4h
mcctrish The eating made me feel sick 4h
dabbe Am I such a hard-ass that I'm finding it difficult to be sympathetic with her as she eats caviar while having an all-expenses-paid trip to NYC, and she's still not happy? She reminds me of Hubbell Gardner from THE WAY WE WERE, whose 1st line in his college creative writing class that was read out loud was the following: “In a way, he was like the country he lived in. Everything came to easily to him.“ 4h
Bookwormjillk @dabbe nope, I‘m with you 4h
BarkingMadRead @dabbe I‘m definitely with you on that 4h
JacqMac @dabbe Right? 4h
dabbe @Bookwormjillk @BarkingMadRead @JacqMac ... thanks, ya'll! 🩶🩷🩶 4h
Clare-Dragonfly I wonder if the other apprentices are getting lectures from their bosses. It doesn‘t seem like it! 3h
Clare-Dragonfly At least we got some confirmation that Doreen actually likes Lenny and isn‘t traumatized! 3h
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Andrea313
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There is so much to sink our teeth into in chapter 2, namely Esther's growing sense of loneliness and alienation. The feeling she describes sitting on her own watching Doreen and Lenny flirt and make out is so recognizable, and her later isolation at the hotel when the city "hung in the window, flat as a poster" is so vivid I can feel it in my bones. But it's her rumination on the power of a scorching hot bath that has lived with me for years now.

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BarkingMadRead
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Cuilin Is this a first time read for anyone? The bath bit was so real. (edited) 1d
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BarkingMadRead @Cuilin this is a first time read for me 1d
mcctrish 43 by 5 blocks is a lot to walk. I love that she was no worse for the wear shoe wise afterwards and that she knows a bath cures everything. I feel like letting Doreen in would have been a bad idea but leaving her outside the door in a puddle of her own vomit is a level of No fucks to give I need to aspire to 😳 1d
mcctrish First time for me 1d
BarkingMadRead @mcctrish 🤣🤣🤣 1d
Cuilin @mcctrish @BarkingMadRead oh good, I had heard of it, of course, but I didn‘t really know much about it and it‘s turning out to be completely different than what I thought. I‘m intrigued. But also worried. 😟 1d
Cuilin @mcctrish I don‘t know I could‘ve left a friend with a Lenny!! 1d
mcctrish @Cuilin I love it so much - after udolpho and the bros and Lark Rise it just feels like the words are precise and measured and specific and the story just zips right out and grabs me ❤️❤️❤️❤️ 1d
mcctrish @Cuilin Doreen has a bit of Mike Tyson in her, I think she‘s going to be fine 🤣🤣 (edited) 1d
willaful @mcctrish Not so much in New York. Long walks are easy there.

This chapter was disturbing and I kind of wished I was back in Candleford. Doreen could easily have died.
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Cuilin @mcctrish The writing style is so much more accessible, it‘s fabulous because we can focus on the plot, oh and it has a plot. Looking at you Lark Rise. 👀 1d
mcctrish @Cuilin 🤣🤣🤣 1d
BarkingMadRead @Cuilin @willaful I 💯 agree, I don‘t think I could have left her there. She was obviously not in a position to make any kind of decision or to fight back! 1d
mcctrish @willaful sensible shoes for the win 1d
Cuilin @BarkingMadRead @willaful She also asked her not to leave her alone with him!!! (edited) 1d
Librarybelle My first time reading this too, @Cuilin , and it‘s different than what I anticipated. I‘m not sure what I thought this would be, but it‘s just different. However, I‘m liking it so far! 1d
Cuilin @mcctrish I hope so 🤛 1d
Cuilin @Librarybelle I had images of a domestic setting for some reason 🤷‍♀️ 1d
Bookwormjillk I wouldn‘t have left Doreen there, but also I probably wouldn‘t have left the hotel in the first place and just skipped right to the bath. Lenny- what a goof ball. (edited) 1d
Bookwormjillk Also I read this as a teen, so my memory is only foggy and I might be getting details confused with a Christopher Pike book. 1d
DieAReader 🙋🏻‍♀️First time for me. 😱😳Never would‘ve left Doreen like that. I also think leaving her in the hallway like that was both dangerous & irresponsible. The whole situation kinda pissed me off tbh🤬🤷🏻‍♀️ 1d
dabbe This is my first read, but I know a bit about it. Plath died just one month after its publication in the UK. 😟 And it's semi-autobiographical. I'm already noticing so many allusions to death and dying just in the first two chapters. And I'm worried, too, @Cuilin. 😱 1d
tpixie @dabbe @cullin it‘s my first read also. This book is bringing on a lot of feels!! 😅🥺😳 1d
TheAromaofBooks Could you add me to the tag list, please? My copy came from the library - I've never read this one so I have no idea where it's going! 1d
Clare-Dragonfly This is a first-time read for me, too. Our girl is making a lot of bad decisions but she is very young! 1d
ElizaMarie @Cuilin First time read for me --- and The bath bit -- yes! #Truth! 1d
ElizaMarie I mean, I get that Doreen asked her not to leave her - but... also, Doreen is not a good friend either. I mean, leaving your friend and putting your friend in that position to leave you --- it just is all messy! 1d
CogsOfEncouragement My first read. What was in those drinks? I‘m not necessarily holding it against her that she left, because it seems something else was at play. When she was seeing her drink was below the design on the glass, then above it. What was real? Did Doreen really bite his ear? She is super groggy when she leaves Doreen in the hallway, just hungover? or something more? Anticipating not getting answers to any of these questions though. 23h
BarkingMadRead @CogsOfEncouragement so many unanswered questions! We are scarred from previous books 🤣 #zerotrust 23h
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Librarybelle
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Here we go… #HashtagBrigade

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Deblovestoread
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#HashtagBrigade

Excited to be finally reading this book. It‘s been on my shelf for years. My copy is a Book of the Month club edition published in 1993.

@BarkingMadRead

TheBookHippie Oh.my.word. ENJOY!!! ♥️ 2d
BarkingMadRead That‘s so cool 2d
Cuilin Beautiful cover 😍 2d
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Andrea313
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Here we go, out the gate running fast with one of the best, most evocative opening lines ever (fight me). We're dropped right into Esther's life in New York, though she narrates from a distance, and the details are so vivid despite her sense of disconnectedness. I love the juxtaposition of her feeling "wise and cynical as all hell" even as she's too naive to know what to order in a bar and too young to see that Doreen's lead isn't worth following.

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BarkingMadRead
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Bookwormjillk I‘m worried for our girl. Hard to stop at one today! (edited) 2d
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mcctrish It sure was a fast start 😬 2d
BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk @mcctrish more happened in this chapter than the whole last book 🤣 It was hard to stop reading! 2d
TheKidUpstairs One of my all time favourite books, with one of my all time favourite first lines ❤ 2d
BarkingMadRead @TheKidUpstairs it is truly an epic first line! 2d
Clare-Dragonfly What @Bookwormjillk said! 😱 No, no, getting out of the cab to hang out with some guys in a bar is always a bad idea, and going with them to a second location is a worse one! 2d
CogsOfEncouragement This is my first read, and that first line had me googling the Rosenbergs before I moved on to the next. @TheKidUpstairs Such a great opening. I agree @Clare-Dragonfly @Bookwormjillk theater traffic is a much better choice. eek 2d
willaful Very nervous.

Anyone else finding the sense of time off? Not quite sure how to describe it but she's apparently in the present at some points and in the past at others and I seem to have missed the transitions. Might be careless reading on my part.

There was some recent news about Ethel Rosenberg's son trying to prove her innocence....
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dabbe @BarkingMadRead #truth 😂😂😂 2d
Cuilin @dabbe @mcctrish something tells me we‘re not in Lark Rise no more!!! (edited) 2d
mcctrish @Cuilin 😂😂 2d
tpixie @willaful interesting about the son. I was just wondering if they were scapegoats or really guilty…. @BarkingMadRead thanks for the article. (edited) 2d
tpixie @willaful thanks! 2d
dabbe @Cuilin Hell no! 😱 1d
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mcctrish
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A breath of fresh air #hashtagbrigade 🎉

TheBookHippie 😂😂😂😂😂😂 2d
Bookwormjillk Oh no 😂😂😂 2d
mcctrish In my defense @TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk the first chapter of The Bell Jar was narrative fiction vs a bone dry accounting of a day in the life of Lark Rise 2d
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LitsyEvents
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Repost for @BarkingMadRead

#hashtagbrigade I know there‘s no break, but tomorrow we start this one!! Anyone is welcome to join us, just know that my hashtags are often ridiculous and always chapter spoilers, so don‘t read the post until you‘ve read that day‘s chapter. We read a chapter a day.

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Cuilin
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The gratuitous cover reveal. This one is from the ‘70‘s, like myself.

#HashTagBrigade @BarkingMadRead

BarkingMadRead Looooove 3d
TheBookHippie OMG 😍😍😍😍😍 3d
mcipher This is my favorite cover for this book! 3d
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TiredLibrarian I had this one! 3d
Ruthiella Love this cover! 😍 3d
Texreader Love your post. I‘m technically 1960s because 1968 but since I don‘t remember that I guess I‘m the 70s too. 3d
dabbe @Texreader 1965 here (the first year of Gen X), but yeah ... 70s with the memory. 😂 3d
Bookwormjillk Pretty sure this is the same cover I had in my teens. This time around it‘s the kindle version so I can adjust the font. 👵 3d
Cuilin @Bookwormjillk Smart. The print is small. 2d
quietjenn Definitely the edition that I first read (and probably still have somewhere). 2d
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Ruthiella
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#Hashtagbrigade

This is the edition I will be reading. Looking forward to this re-read to see if it still holds up for me. I first read it when I was in my twenties, not much older than the protagonist.

BarkingMadRead Love it! 3d
Librarybelle That‘s my edition too! 3d
Ruthiella @BarkingMadRead @Librarybelle It‘s got some nice extras! 3d
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BarkingMadRead
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#hashtagbrigade I know there‘s no break, but tomorrow we start this one!! Anyone is welcome to join us, just know that my hashtags are often ridiculous and always chapter spoilers, so don‘t read the post until you‘ve read that day‘s chapter. We read a chapter a day!

mcctrish I‘m in 3d
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Bookwormjillk See you tomorrow! 3d
Ruthiella I‘m in. This will be a reread for me. I even have my own copy! No need to wait for it from the library. 3d
Librarybelle Looking forward to starting this! 3d
bumpinthenight What a beautiful edition! 3d
BarkingMadRead @bumpinthenight it‘s so pretty! I love unique covers! 3d
DieAReader 🤗So excited to be reading this!! 3d
Deblovestoread My copy has been in my shelf for years. So glad to be reading along with you. 3d
JenlovesJT47 I‘ve read The Bell Jar a few years ago (and loved it) but I didn‘t get to the January pick in time so I‘m going to read that one this month.🙃 3d
MatchlessMarie This is the edition I am reading too, but on kindle. 🩷 3d
Clare-Dragonfly Yay! I just picked up my copy at the library! 3d
peanutnine I'm ready! Haven't read this since college so excited to revisit 3d
tpixie @BarkingMadRead yay!! Thanks! I‘ve also have the 50th anniversary addition from Libby! As well as the audiobook. 🦋🩵🦋 3d
JacqMac I‘ve been looking forward to this one. It has been years. 2d
ElizaMarie Need to get this one off my shelves! I'm excited to read this one. I have been meaning to for YEARS!!!! 2d
Graciouswarriorprincess @BarkingMadRead Please tag me. How are we reading it? Chapter a day? 2d
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Enchanted_Bibliophile
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I felt so drained after finishing this book I couldn't even begin to think how to review it.

I really enjoyed Plath's writing, its lyrical, captivating, and unique. I'll be on the lookout for her poetry.

👇🏻 continue below 👇🏻

Enchanted_Bibliophile I only realised that this book is semi-autobiographical after the fact, and I think that was the part that threw me. It's really dark and heart-rending and to think it's only part fictional... I don't want to go there again.

I want to read it again, but I need time.
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Enchanted_Bibliophile
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I feel I might have over committed for this month 🤪

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LitsyEvents
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Who is in for the Bell Jar? Drop a comment below! Note that we start in the 9th, and remember that my hashtags are often ridiculous and always chapter spoilers, so don‘t read the post each day until you‘ve read the chapter! Chapter a day! #hashtagbrigade
Amanda, I have two tag lists. One at the beginning of each new month, and one for each individual book, opt ins only.

BarkingMadRead Thank you for sharing! 2w
JenlovesJT47 @BarkingMadRead can you add me to the list please? 🙃 2w
JenlovesJT47 @BarkingMadRead thank you! 🤗 2w
Graciouswarriorprincess @BarkingMadRead please add me. Thanks 2d
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RedCurly
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This is my second timwle to read this book (and definitely not the last). It's this amezes me how Slyvia Plath wrote the Bible of tortured girls. I never can put a finger on when Esther goes mad.

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BarkingMadRead
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I needed to find this for @DieAReader so I figured I would post it again. Who is in for the Bell Jar? Drop a comment below! Note that we start in the 9th, and remember that my hashtags are often ridiculous and always chapter spoilers, so don‘t read the post each day until you‘ve read the chapter! Chapter a day! #hashtagbrigade
Amanda, I have two tag lists. One at the beginning of each new month, and one for each individual book, opt ins only.

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mcctrish I‘m in 2w
Librarybelle I‘m in! 2w
Ruthiella I‘m in! Thank you. 😊 2w
MatchlessMarie Ooh I‘ve never done hashtag brigade before but I am in! I used to read this one on a somewhat annual basis and it‘s been a while 2w
BarkingMadRead Welcome to the nuthouse @MatchlessMarie 🤣 2w
Sace I‘m in! 2w
Clare-Dragonfly I‘m in! I‘ve been meaning to read this since I was a teenager. 2w
BarkingMadRead 😍😍😍 2w
Cuilin I‘m in! 2w
emz711 Woman in white 🤍 2w
DieAReader 🤗You‘re awesome! I‘m in for ‘The Bell Jar‘ for sure🤓 I‘ll check my shelves ‘cause I might also have ‘The Gapes of Wrath‘. Thanks so much💖 2w
Bookwormjillk I‘m in! 2w
peanutnine Have to make sure I can find the book, but I'm in! 2w
dabbe I'll give 'er a try! 🤩 2w
Bklover Oh yay! @MatchlessMarie ! Sometimes the #hashtags are what keeps us going😊😉 2w
Deblovestoread 🙋‍♀️ 2w
Andrea313 I'll jump in! One of my favorites. 2w
Larkken I own it and have never finished it - I'm in :) 2w
willaful I'm in, though if it's too depressing I may need to be out again. Can't handle much these days. 2w
Morr_Books So excited for this list of upcoming reads! 2w
BarkingMadRead 😍😍😍 2w
kwmg40 I‘m in for this one. Thanks! 2w
eeclayton I'm going to sit this one out, thanks. 2w
TheAromaofBooks I'm in for this one - I've never read it!! 2w
AnishaInkspill what a list, Frankenstein is one of my planned reads for this year, Bell Jar I have read three times, Woman in White a few years ago. Your current read I have not read but pls add me to #hashtagbrigade to follow your posts, thanks 2w
ElizaMarie I'm in!!!! So glad this was picked! I have. Even meaning to read this one for so so long ❤️❤️ 2w
KAO I‘ll sit this one out but am interested in Woman in White for the next round! Thanks! 2w
rubyslippersreads I think I‘ll skip this one; I‘ve read it, plus I‘m still working on Lark Rise. 😄 2w
julieclair I‘m in! 2w
BarkingMadRead 😍😍 2w
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BarkingMadRead
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My #bookspinbingo stack is missing two books, one is being delivered on Monday and one is on my kindle. It‘s a fun stack! @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks You have some chonky reads there!! 2w
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Eggs ❤️💔💚 2mo
DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 2mo
lil1inblue @Eggs I know. 💓 2mo
lil1inblue @DieAReader 💓💓💓 2mo
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Litsi
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This novel is a fictionalized, exaggerated and distorted telling of a dark period of the life of its author, Plath. This is a relatable account This is my 4th read. Each time, I want the real woman to live and be the bad girl poet she wanted to be instead of a wife and mother. Each time, I hope that the real woman‘s life ends differently than it did. I guess that‘s a definition of my own madness.

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mavey
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Have always been a bit hesitant to read The Bell Jar. Any tips/experiences, folks?

Ft. Pretty handmade bookmark from my friend to help with it❤️

Vansa It's a very accessible, quick read(unlike some of Plath's poems).Its not a comfortable read though and you have to keep in mind that a genuinely deeply depressed person is writing this,or it can sound entitled.Definitely worth reading 3mo
mavey @Vansa It hasn't been an easy read at all, yes Vansa. Thank you! I take a breather in between pages to get through 3mo
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

#Shadow
#WickedWhispers

kspenmoll ❤️💛🧡 4mo
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 4mo
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notreallyelaine
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“What does a woman see in a woman that she can‘t see in a man?”
Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, “Tenderness.”
That shut me up.

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CoffeeNBooks
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks This cover is pretty 🖤 5mo
Eggs This is the edition I read in 1972 🥀 5mo
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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“But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the #bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again.”

💔💔

It‘s time for a reread…

#SchoolSpirit
#Bell

Eggs Me too, I read it in 1972!! 5mo
JessieKB That picture!!😍😍 5mo
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GatheringBooks
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kspenmoll 🩷💙❤️ 5mo
BkClubCare Wow! 🛁 5mo
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caffeinated
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#SchoolSpirit September 2nd #bell

Eggs Classic👏🏻 5mo
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Ladygodiva7
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The naughty book-eater!!!

This was such an excellent book!! Love it!!

#dogsoflitsy #Reading1001 #1001

Gissy But...but...with that angel face? 😕😂 6mo
ShananigansReads The art and the artist. 6mo
dabbe “Mom, I thought it said jam jar.“ 😂🖤🐾🖤😂 6mo
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Ladygodiva7 @Gissy @ShananigansReads @dabbe don‘t let that angel face fool you, she‘s got a long rap sheet! Love the art and the artist! Right, she can‘t read 😂 6mo
AnnCrystal 🤭🐾🐕‍🦺💝. 6mo
TheSpineView 😂😂😂❤️🐾🐕 6mo
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Ladygodiva7
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My dog had a lil snack this morning, she ate a little bit of the corner of this library book!!!

Should I tell the library? I could leave a post-it note on the inside…first time she‘s damaged a library book.

Bella (my dog) had completely destroyed one other book, Robin Hood, thankfully I bought it for $1 from library book sale. Oof.

Addison_Reads As a library worker, who also handles damages and repairs, letting them know is always better than just dropping it off. 6mo
Ladygodiva7 @Addison_Reads thanks I will let them know!! 🫣 6mo
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BC_Dittemore
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I read The Bell Jar for the first time a couple weeks ago then sat on it, because I wasn‘t sure how to articulate what I loved so much. Then I listened to it. This showed the way.

Through Maggie Gyllenhaal, Plath‘s prose truly shines. While reading, I was certainly enamored by the writing, highlighting some fav. lines. But after listening, I wanted to highlight almost every line.

I now understand the urge to compulsively reread a single novel.

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Eggs Perfect 👍🏼 9mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🖤💔🖤 9mo
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Catsarentfood
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Pickpick

Loved this book so much.

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Rachel.Rencher
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Tell me why I keep picking up copies of The Bell Jar every time I go thrifting even though I already own like 6 copies? I keep forgetting and just grab it. 😂 Anyway, I'm FINALLY going to read it today!

Birdsong28 I do it with Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks as it's my favourite book so I have to get the different versions. 😂 📚📖 11mo
Shemac77 I do it with The Catcher in the Rye! 11mo
AmyG Sometimes I just can‘t bear seeing a lonely, beloved book at a thrift store or book sale….and I just buy it…..so it can be appreciated on my shelf. 10mo
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Suet624 @AmyG Love your answer. 10mo
Suet624 I do it with Fresh Water for Flowers. 10mo
Tamra @Suet624 💚💙 10mo
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DHill
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Rereading this after many years.

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CSeydel
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My #Tuesdaytunes is “Cemetery Somewhere” by John Muirhead.

Sylvia Plath wrote:
“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”

CSeydel Reimagining that theme, “Cemetery Somewhere” by John Muirhead describes the cemetery of abandoned dreams, a mourning for all the lives that could have been. I can‘t stop listening to this song; it is simple, compelling and beautiful. 12mo
TheBookHippie Love this! 12mo
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TieDyeDude A lovely song. Thanks for sharing! Have you heard Jason Isbell "If We Were Vampires"? 12mo
CSeydel @TieDyeDude I haven‘t - I‘ll check it out! 12mo
CSeydel @TieDyeDude Turns out I actually have heard it, I just didn‘t realize - I‘ve heard the Noah Kahan version 12mo
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kitapkurdu
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I remembered the cadavers and Doreen and the story of the fig-tree and Marco's diamond and the sailor on the Common and Doctor Gordon's wall-eyed nurse and the broken thermometers and the negro with his two kinds of beans and the twenty pounds I gained on insulin and the rock that bulged between sky and sea like a grey skull.Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them.But they were part of me. They were my landscape.

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“I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit of it or she wouldn't groan like that, and she would go straight home and start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been, when all the time, in some secret part of her, that long, blind, doorless and windowless corridor of pain was waiting to open up and shut her in again.”

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kitapkurdu
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath

“I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.”

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kitapkurdu
Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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This books makes me feel tired. Tired of repressing every self-doubting thought, packed in a little pocket of worries in my brain, about the future, myself, and how I allow others‘ opinions on these to shape my own life. I feel like I almost betray Plath with the way I lead my life (as if she would care) - setting a bell jar around my own life, with my own hands. This book paints my Bell Jar bright red, right in my face, and I hate that.

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JillR
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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Pickpick

Mixed feelings about this one. I much preferred it to some of the contemporary/millennial books on similar topics. It felt both of its time and also very much not; there were times the writing put me in mind of Ottessa Moshfegh. Yet I didn‘t love it. There remains the obsessive self-centredness of the main character that I disliked here and have done in other books and I struggled with the second half. Still, I‘m glad I read it.

ShyBookOwl I agree about MC. I struggled with it at times, but I also couldn't bring myself to bail because it had such poignant moments. But it's not one I'll re-read 13mo
JillR @ShyBookOwl same, as it was short it wasn‘t too difficult a read from that perspective. Whether I‘d have finished it if it was much longer, I‘m not sure 13mo
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Annie09
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

https://english.shabd.in/the-bell-jar-sylvia-plath/book/10277922

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steph_phanie
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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It is taking me so long to get through my first book of the year...

...because we have been doing fun things like traveling to New Orleans and adopting a new kitty!

Litsy, meet Mike! He hasn't been introduced to our other cat quite yet (she is scared), but he has settled in well so far. ❤️

RaeLovesToRead Hello, Mike, you adorable kitty you! 13mo
LiteraryinPA Aww, hi to Mike! 13mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 13mo
DHill Hello Mike! 😻 13mo
Sparklemn Handsome! 13mo
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steph_phanie
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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Hello, old friend. 💙 Starting the year with you.

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steph_phanie
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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As the year comes to an end, I have been feeling ever more intensely pulled to reread The Bell Jar. I read it every five years or so.

Then today at work, I realized I was repeating, "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart," over and over again in the back of my mind. So when I got home, I pulled my copy off the shelf. I probably won't start it for another week or two, but it felt good to flip through the pages!

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Yoricke_SouthAfrica
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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Mehso-so

After wanting to read this book for a very long time, I'm a little disappointed. I found the writing style difficult to follow. Understandably, it is a semi-autobiography, and covers sensitive topics, but I was not overwhelmed.

Yoricke_SouthAfrica @Santie I remembered to tag you in my review 😊 1y
Santie You did! Thank you. I guess it will remain shelved for now 1y
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Yoricke_SouthAfrica
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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This book has been on my TBR list for far too long. Time to read it at last

Santie Please tag me in your review. I started and then it wasn‘t what I expected, slow burn and I got impatient. Need some motivation to revisit it 😩 1y
Yoricke_SouthAfrica @Santie Will do. Sometimes timing has a lot to do with when a book makes sense. I've put books down, only to pick it up years later and enjoy it. 1y
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guidosophia
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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Ever since the first time I read this book in high school I‘ve been saying it‘s my favorite book so I seem intellectually superior and also sexy. Rereading it as a 20 year old has solidified the fact that this is the best book I‘ve ever read. It‘s SO relatable which is kinda scary but whatever. The last time I read it I remember thinking the beginning was slow but this time the beginning had me hooked. I love this book. PLS read it!!!

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CrystalE02
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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Panpan

I didn't care for this book at all. I felt like it ended too quickly. I rated this book a 2 out of 5 stars.