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dabbe
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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Catsandbooks Fantastic! 🎉 💕 9h
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dabbe
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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#readingbracket2025 Thank you, @CSeydel 🤗

February: THE BELL JAR
So far: THE CRUELEST MONTH

CSeydel Looking good! 7h
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dabbe
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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Clare-Dragonfly
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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What a gorgeous, wrenching book! I‘m sorry it took me so long to read it, and grateful to @BarkingMadRead and the #HashtagBrigade for moving it up my TBR. I don‘t know if it would have been even better to read when I was a teenager or if it would have been a little *too* relatable then.

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Andrea313
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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I will love this book till the end of time. I've read a lot of bad reviews of it online and they make me want to weep. So many point to Esther's relative privilege, asking, "How could she be depressed?” As if mental illness cares about circumstance! As if being an ambitious woman in the '50s wasn't stultifying and stifling! Anyway, I'll be over here with Kat Stratford, relishing the gorgeous prose and feeling deeply understood. Thank you, Sylvia.

CBee Really wonderful review that sums the book up perfectly. One of my all time favorites! 1d
LoverOfLearning I love everything about this post! So we'll written! I'll join you and Kat! 1d
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Andrea313 @CBee Yes, an all-time favorite over here, too. Such beautiful writing, I always love revisiting it. ❤️ 21h
Andrea313 @LoverOfLearning Come on over! I'll always make time for Kat Stratford, The Bell Jar, or both! 😂 21h
CBee @Andrea313 Sylvia was such a gem ♥️ 13h
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julieclair
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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This book was a difficult read… bleak and depressing… but also very important. Plath‘s writing is incredible… so immersive. I‘m glad I read this with my #hashtagbrigade friends, led by the fabulous #BarkingMadRead . I‘m not sure I would have finished it on my own. When I reached the end, I was doing fine. And then I read the epilogue, which was a recap of Plath‘s life. Ugh. It plunged me back into despair. So sad.,😭

Bookwormjillk Yeah the story of Plath‘s life put a damper on the happy ending of The Bell Jar. 1d
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I know this was a popular book but it was not to my liking. I normally enjoy psychological insight within a novel but this book felt more like the day to day ramblings and procrastination of a brother who chose to be misguided and utilized his brother as a source of blame. Not for me.

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mcctrish
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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Read with #hashtagbrigade and despite some parts being hard to read on an emotional/historical level I LOVED IT! I hope Esther went on to live a good life

TheBookHippie I read the covers off mine as a teen 😊 2d
mcctrish @TheBookHippie SP really does portray the young female voice and life so well 2d
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ElizaMarie
The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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This one sat on my #TBR for years! I might even have more than one copy as it had been one I had been meaning to read for years! Thank you #HashtagBridgade for allowing me to join in on this journey! I had a great time reading this depressing book with yall. @BarkingMadResd

#OffTheShelf2025
@Librariana

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BarkingMadRead
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BarkingMadRead I feel bad using MGGs pic, but he came to when I googled nerdy hot guy in tweed, which is how I pictured this dude 🤣 3d
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ElizaMarie #AllThatBlood - terrifying! And didn't sound like she enjoyed it in the slightest. Ugh. I also noticed how a lot of these chapters end in a #CliffHanger. (I will finish the book now - since I am doing a 12 tomorrow. 3d
dabbe I really missed something because I had no idea Joan was in such sorry shape. Unbelievably sad. 🥺 Was she attracted to Esther and despondent when she found out Esther had slept with a man? I'm sure it goes a lot deeper than that, but wow. And of course, I had to read Ch. 20 right away after that. Definitely more of a page-turner than LARK RISE. 3d
dabbe I love the pic and Spencer from CMs! 🤩 3d
Bookwormjillk @dabbe I don‘t think we‘re supposed to know. Esther is so self centered (I don‘t mean that as a criticism exactly.) But from her point of view we had no clue what Joan was going through. Esther doesn‘t know what‘s going on with herself never mind being able to consider that Joan might have feelings. 3d
Clare-Dragonfly I love the picture of Reid for this chapter 😂 Though I doubt this guy told the truth about being a professor of mathematics—he certainly doesn‘t seem like he‘s actually paid well! I wonder if we will find out what exactly went wrong with Esther. Did her diaphragm puncture something? 3d
mcctrish @Clare-Dragonfly I want to know too! Is she one in a million that bleeds out after sex the first time or is the diaphragm the problem ? Or being ‘tipsy‘? All this mental health care just seems so random and half assed 3d
julieclair @dabbe Joan took me completely by surprise. So sad. 1d
dabbe @julieclair IKR? 😳🥺😔 17h
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