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Ch 10: this was a lot #buckleup #homeagain #didntgetintothesummerclass #nobackupplan #randomstoryaboutaneighborwithsixpointfivekids #nosyblackwidowneighbor #didshereallyeatrawmeat #yikes #letswriteanovel #nevermind #letslearnshorthand #nope #letshaveanexistentialcrisis #letsrethunkourentirecareerpath #atleastsheblewoffbuddy #soproud #offtogetsomemeds #uhoh #referraltoashrink #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @mcctrish @librarybelle @ruthiella @matchlessmarie @jacqmac @cogsofencouragement @sace @clare-dragonfly @cuilin @dieareader @bookwormjillk @thearomaofbooks @graciouswarriorprincess 4h

BarkingMadRead @peanutnine @dabbe @deblovestoread @andrea313 @larkken @willaful @morr_books @kwmg40 @thearomafbooks @anishainkspill @elizamarie @tpixie @julieclair @jenlovesjt47 4h

mcctrish All of a sudden the randomness has a Lark Rise vibe #iykyk 4h

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BarkingMadRead @mcctrish it really does 🤣 4h

willaful Man, what a depressing chapter. I hope Esther is going to get some help but I kind of doubt it. :-\ 4h

BarkingMadRead @willaful I‘m worried that she will think she doesn‘t need it 4h

Deblovestoread Mrs. Kravitz! 3h

Clare-Dragonfly @BarkingMadRead Same! Or that the shrink will be terrible… 3h

Bookwormjillk I‘m with you all hoping she gets the help she needs. 2h

tpixie @Deblovestoread 😝 @BarkingMadRead Mrs Kravitz!!! 🧙 I LOVED Bewitched 2h

willaful @Clare-Dragonfly I think it's almost guaranteed that the shrink will be terrible. 😞 2h

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Andrea313

The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath

The image I've concocted in my head of Esther throwing her clothes off the rooftop is so concrete and vivid that nothing I can find online even approximates it. But here's an image of two women on the roof of the real Barbizon Hotel so you get a sense of what her view may have been. This chapter is so intense and so profoundly sad, from Hilda's cold indifference to Marco's assault to the clothes floating into the city like "a loved one's ashes".

Andrea313 #HashtagBrigade #HildaIsBrutal #TimeForACry #JayCeesCureIsMoreWork #TimeToParty #TheFamousBlackSheathReturns #CaptivatingStickpin #GoToHellMarco #ThrowingAwayClothes #GoodbyeHopesAndDreams #ShatteredIllusions 18h

Cuilin I‘m so glad she hit out!! 🤛 🩸 8h

Andrea313 @Cuilin Yes! No doubt what did happen was awful but it could have been so much worse on top of that. 3h

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BarkingMadRead

The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath

Ch 9: Esther‘s last night in NYC #iwouldbeemotionaltoo #tackypicsforthemagazine #bilegreen 🤮 #doreenwantstoparty #estherwantstopack #ofcoursertheyparty #esthergetsstuckwithawomanhater #sheshouldhavestuckhimwiththatpin 💎 #rightintheeye #ihopeheneverfindsit #ofcoursedoreenisnowheretobefound #estherdumpsallherfrumpyclothes #ilegitthoughtshewasgonnajump 😰 #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @mcctrish @librarybelle @ruthiella @matchlessmarie @jacqmac @cogsofencouragement @sace @clare-dragonfly @cuilin @dieareader @bookwormjillk @thearomaofbooks @graciouswarriorprincess 1d

BarkingMadRead @peanutnine @dabbe @deblovestoread @andrea313 @larkken @willaful @morr_books @kwmg40 @thearomafbooks @anishainkspill @elizamarie @tpixie @julieclair @jenlovesjt47 1d

Cuilin I wasn‘t prepared for the assault. Ugh. This though 🤛 👃 🩸 👍 1d

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BarkingMadRead @Cuilin me either, but she was totally badass 1d

mcctrish Absolutely badass and for real she should have stabbed him with the pin 1d

Ruthiella I‘m surprised I don‘t remember this at all from reading this before. It‘s traumatizing ! 1d

dabbe @mcctrish In a place where the sun don't shine! 💪🏻 1d

dabbe That green shirt, skirt, and stocking are giving me total Ali McGraw vibes from LOVE STORY! 💚 1d

mcctrish @dabbe the green doesn‘t make me unhappy and I totally agree with Love Story vibes 1d

tpixie @dabbe yes!! 💚💚💚 1d

BarkingMadRead @dabbe I love green, although maybe not quite this much and also not called bile green 🤣 1d

willaful I loved the line “It was a face that needed soap and water and Christian tolerance.“ 1d

Bookwormjillk @Ruthiella I don‘t remember it either 1d

tpixie @willaful lol great line 22h

ElizaMarie @willaful yes!!!! 21h

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Andrea313

The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath

A chapter full of disaster- an awkward, post-Christmas drive to the Adirondacks with Mr. Willard, Buddy making Esther read a terrible poem he wrote, an unwanted marriage proposal, and finally skiing lessons from Buddy *who has never gone skiing himself*?! All leading up to a broken leg on the slopes, and no wonder. Wish Esther had refused to ski full-stop because all of this is nonsense.

Andrea313 #HashtagBrigade #LongCarRidesCanBeTerrible #TunaOatmealCookiesAndCoffeeIsADisgustingLunch #DepressingSanatorium #PresidentEisenhowerShade #NotSoEasyToWriteAGreatPoemIsItBuddy #HeThinksHeDidGreat #TurnDownThatProposalGirl #DoNotSkiWithThisMan #WhatAreYouThinking #ListenToTheInteriorVoice 2d

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BarkingMadRead

The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath

Ch 8: this freaking guy 🙄 #esthervisitsbuddyattheclinic #buddychubbedup #proposaltime #becausethissettingiswaybetterthanaletter 🙄 #timetogoskiing #buddyteachesesther #becausewatchingpeopleskimakeshimapro 🙄 #myeyeshurtfromrollingsomuch #whatcouldgowrong #letmetellyou #abrokenleg #jerk #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @mcctrish @librarybelle @ruthiella @matchlessmarie @jacqmac @cogsofencouragement @sace @clare-dragonfly @cuilin @dieareader @bookwormjillk @thearomaofbooks @graciouswarriorprincess 2d

BarkingMadRead @peanutnine @dabbe @deblovestoread @andrea313 @larkken @willaful @morr_books @kwmg40 @thearomafbooks @anishainkspill @elizamarie @tpixie @julieclair @jenlovesjt47 2d

TheAromaofBooks Why is everyone in this book so unlikable 😂 2d

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BarkingMadRead @TheAromaofBooks seriously! She‘s an asshole magnet 🤣 2d

Cuilin @TheAromaofBooks thank you for saying that I wholeheartedly agree! 2d

Cuilin The line let me fly with you would have been very sweet and cute if the question had not been “how would you like to be Mrs. Buddy Willard?” and completely erasing her. 😣 2d

BarkingMadRead @Cuilin everything about this chapter made me want to scream 🤣 2d

Bookwormjillk Usually I‘m annoyed with her but firmly on Team Ester in this chapter. Was that jerk happy she broke her leg?? 2d

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk I totally got that vibe, like he was glad to be able to do some doctoring 🙄 2d

Cuilin @Bookwormjillk seemed like a metaphor for breaking her, now doesn‘t get to run away!!! 2d

mcctrish First how does one get well in such an absolutely disgusting sounding place, second who the hell trusts someone to teach them to ski who doesn‘t know how?! Who stepped in front of her? Buddy? Honest to god Ester, stay away from this dumbass (edited) 2d

Bookwormjillk @mcctrish I read it twice and couldn‘t figure out who stepped in front of her 2d

mcctrish @Bookwormjillk it was the man saying “you were doing fine until the guy stepped in your path” not skied, stepped made me think it was Buddy (edited) 2d

Bookwormjillk @mcctrish good clue 2d

willaful I was kind of caught in wondering why Esther seemed more upset about Buddy's hypocrisy than about what happened in this chapter. But maybe she's letting herself realize things slowly because they're so freaking awful. 2d

Clare-Dragonfly Wow, Buddy is an idiot! He shakes her hand when she comes in, tries to give her an ashtray he made, and then asks her to marry him in the most unromantic way possible?! Not to mention the skiing failure. Esther said in the last chapter that she broke her own leg but Buddy clearly broke it! 😂 2d

CogsOfEncouragement I‘m enjoying the reading and all of your comments. This is my first time reading, and I‘m glad I‘m among friends to do so! 2d

ElizaMarie Ugh!!! Buddy Buddy Buddy —- He is such a pompous man. 2d

AnishaInkspill @BarkingMadRead thanks for tagging me into these posts, this is brilliant as I don't have the to read this this year but i could never get tired of reading this and what always comes to mind is Esther's dry wit. 1d

DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks 💖I thought I was alone in not liking anyone😂 1d

BarkingMadRead @AnishaInkspill 😍😍 1d

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement 🩶💚🩶 1d

dabbe This part teared me up: “I felt my lungs inflate with the inrush of scenery--air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.' I plummeted down past the zigzaggers, the students, the experts, through year after year of doubleness and smiles and compromise, into my own past.“

Wow, can she write. 1d

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Ruthiella

The Zero Stone | Andre Norton

#weekendreads

I‘m enjoying juggling only two books this Valentine‘s weekend.

“The Bell Jar” for #HashtagBrigade

“The Zero Stone” for #LitsySFBC

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rachelsbrittain Love the Valentines take on #WeekendReads ! 3d

Ruthiella @rachelsbrittain ☺️🩷 3d

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BarkingMadRead

The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath

Ch 7: #constantinwasinteresting #UNandasammie #estherisobsessedwiththerussiangirl #andfiganalogies #girl #focusonwhatyoucando #notwhatyoucant #easiersaidthandone #obsessedwithsex #shemeetsthestrangestpeople #weirdomagnet #balalaicamusicandanap #sobizarre #soletsdropabombandendthechapter #staytunedforthesagaofthebrokenleg #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @mcctrish @librarybelle @ruthiella @matchlessmarie @jacqmac @cogsofencouragement @sace @clare-dragonfly @cuilin @dieareader @bookwormjillk @thearomaofbooks @graciouswarriorprincess 3d

BarkingMadRead @peanutnine @dabbe @deblovestoread @andrea313 @larkken @willaful @morr_books @kwmg40 @thearomafbooks @anishainkspill @elizamarie @tpixie @julieclair @jenlovesjt47 3d

mcctrish Some of the things she can‘t do I figure she could if she put her mind to it - winning all the prizes must mean she can memorize shit like a boss ( I‘m not talking about shorthand - she can write her own letters) the white, black and yellow men comment was 😳 3d

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BarkingMadRead @mcctrish so 😳 the things people said back then 🙄🤮 3d

willaful @BarkingMadRead @mctrish Not to mention the “suspiciously thick lips.“ 😬 3d

Cuilin @mcctrish talk about a lack of belief in yourself!! The homemade rug made me think about the current conversation about trad wives. Some podcast bros think their grandmothers were perfect not understanding they didn‘t want to stay home or have their lives controlled too. Some had less options. 3d

mcctrish Ah the podcast bros who know everything @Cuilin 3d

Clare-Dragonfly The famous fig tree metaphor! And then on the next page she goes “oh, maybe I was just hungry.” 😂😂😂 I love it. 3d

dabbe As I go deeper into this story with Esther, I want to rush to her NYC hotel, give her a hug, and tell her that it'll be alright. 💚 3d

tpixie It was funny reading about the rug- a coinkydink- my kindergartner granddaughter was reading a reading assignment that mentioned a rag rug. I was explaining to her what a rag rug was. The next day I read this chapter! That sure was another weird date! (edited) 2d

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Andrea313

The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath

So, I know that Esther is actually angry and frustrated with the restrictive and hypocritical double standards of her time and is taking it out on Buddy but the guy still pisses me off. My rational brain knows that he didn't lie to her - he came clean about the waitress as soon as she asked - but I still can't stand his smug, mansplain-y vibe and I don't blame Esther for feeling relieved when he's shipped off to the Adirondacks.

Andrea313 #HashtagBrigade #CampusVisitToAMedStudent #BabyBeingBorn #DidThatMotherConsentToObservers #ThisIsThe50sWhatIsConsent #LongBlindDoorlessWindowlessCorridorOfPain #BuddyNobodyWantsToSeeYouNaked #SoSoAwkward #MommysBoy #MotherBoy #BusterBluthVibes 4d

tpixie Great photo! I‘m not a fan of Buddy, either!! 4d

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