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The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

Start date: March 1, 2023

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Revisit the Shelf Reread, April 2016

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Aug 25, 2008 Carrie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 4-and-a-half-to-5-stars, favorites, classics, mental-illness, need-to-re-read, 2024-books-to-read, read-my-shelves

*Feb: 8th time for me to do a reread and annotate soon I'm thinking.*

Great book, I love flow of the writing. ...more

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Jul 14, 2014 Heather L rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, group-read, 2014

Excellent writing, but quite depressing. I finished at about 9:30 last night, and was wishing I had finished about two hours earlier, so as to take a long walk and clear my head before bed. As it was, I slept poorly and woke during the middle of the night, unable to get back to sleep for more than two hours.

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Jan 19, 2008 Suvi rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: cities_new-york, 1940-1969, _north-america, novels

Oh how I feel ashamed for not liking this as much as I thought. But let me say this first : at some level I felt related to the protagonist during the New York days. Some chapters ringed so true in my mind that it was scary. The problem really was the vagueness of the writing. Although I'm a fan of huge descriptions and such I can enjoy some delicate word using, too. In this it just didn't work, don't know why. As I said, the New York part was wonderful. Also, I'm looking forward to reading Plat ...more

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