Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath | 
pickI enjoyed this one, and would read again
pickA truly amazing!!!! Read.
I also like how it puts Sylvia Plath‘s talent back to centre stage from the shadows of the last months of her life.
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Both 1,000 pages plus. #SuperChunkster alert!!! 🚨 #ChunksterChallenge
pickAmazing audiobook! Highly recommend!!!
pickThis book was a good book. It was a little long. It could have finished quicker. I did enjoy learning about Sylvia Plath. It was sad though what she went through. I rated this book a 3 out of 5 stars.
On my tbr!! So sad 😞 💔
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"Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn."
10/27/1932 - 02/11/1963
Happy Birthday to Sylvia Plath, my favorite poet! ???
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bailedI‘m generally not a big fan of biographies. I checked this one out after seeing someone recommend it on Twitter. Even though I know nothing of Sylvia Plath. It is long…I only made it 5% in and was bored to death. I don‘t need to know the daily minutiae of her great grandparents lives… maybe it gets better, I don‘t know. I need less encyclopedia entry & more story in order to get sucked in.
pickWow what a life Sylvia Plath lived. Such a problematic feminist icon. This book may have been TOO detailed- it gave the history not just of her but everyone in her life as well. Listening to her evolve from a high schooler with far off dreams to a wonderfully sexual, confident, oftentimes unruly woman was fantastic. The context (other than just her death) given to her writing helps create new or realize old meaning. Now I need to reread her work!
I AM SO EXCITED RIGHT NOW! I ordered a copy of this beautiful biography on Sylvia Plath and it arrived today! I had to bring it to work with me because I can't stop touching it! 🙊🤣😂 YIU GUYS IT'S OVER 900 PAGES! My heart is so full! I feel like I am going to cry (with joy!) every time I look at it! 😍💕📚 Isn't it so beautiful?!?! I can't wait to dive in!
Valentines Weekend reading ❤️
1-30-21: My 10th finished book of 2021! I loved all 940 pages of this amazing biography! Not my first Plath biography but definitely the most concise and in depth take on her life, her beautiful poetry and her sad demise. Now, I have to re-read The Bell Jar. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #redcomet #sylviaplath #heatherclark 👍🏼📖#️⃣1️⃣0️⃣
1-27-21: A little over 600 pages into this and really loving it. 📖💖
pickThis book might not be for everyone. It‘s part biography part research paper. I mean this author goes back into the meeting of her parents! Still I‘ve always been a fan of The Bell Jar and her story has always tugged at me. I confess it took me awhile to read this as I had to put it down and pick it up on several occasions. Sylvia Plath was truly a brilliant but tortured soul.
pickNeed a strong drink after powering through the remainder of the book this afternoon. I can only see Plath obsessives reading this - it‘s very long, detailed and some very academic sections of poetry crit.
I get to the last 2 weeks of her life every time and want to shout stop! People help her. I hope every time the ending is different 🥲
The book doesn‘t reveal any massive new insights, but there are some details for us obsessives. 👇🏻
Nearly half way. This is probably my #weeklyforecast
Hoping to finish by Thursday so I can choose my new year new read 😁
Why don‘t editors correct authors saying Queen of England, it does not (currently) apply to the Queen!! 1603 was the last time this title was correct. Used twice so far in this book, by the author not Plath.
Progress so far. This book is nearly a 1000 pages and had the smallest print ever, I‘m thinking they wanted to keep it under 1000 so just made the font tiny.
There are some new details in here, people who haven‘t spoken before and new papers/details that have become public.
Author writes like an academic. Also, facts are facts, interpretations are opinions, even from educated experts. Diving in again.
Sylvia won as I knew she would. Starting today. It‘s a big book with big promises.
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Very grateful I always get a good selection of books from Father Christmas 🎄❤️
Happy Christmas for those celebrating. Happy Friday and have a good weekend if not 💜
Thanks to lots of people on here for support and friendship through this year.
A little late but I made my #BookSpinBingo card for November. Also I did not realize how ambitious it was to include the tagged book in this round of Bingo. She‘s a chunkster 😂
Look what‘s coming in October !!!!! The above is a snippet from the preview Knopf sent for the last Wednesday of National Poetry Month. I‘m very excited 📚💜📚💙📚💚📚❤️📚🧡📚💛📚!
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