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riccardocialfi's review against another edition
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Wonderful book. Amazing picturing of my favorite writer and poet
cupcates's review against another edition
5.0
there's nothing by sylvia plath i'll rate lower than 5 stars
tiany_dm's review against another edition
Honestly, love her writing style but for me it’s a bit too hard to maintain focus with everything going on at the moment. She’s one of my favourite writers, so I will definitely read it (completely) in the near future
armenaismailji's review against another edition
i LOVED it but i just dont have the time these days and its a very long book which i cant really go through. i might come back to it some day.
tokrnis's review against another edition
Sylvia plath’s journal is filled with pure poetry while my journal is just me whining…
“Now I'll never see him again, and maybe it's a good thing. He walked out of my life last night for once and for all. I know with sickening certainty that it's the end.”
“Yet I liked him too much - - - way too much, and I ripped him out of my heart so it wouldn't get to hurt me more than it did.”
“Now I'll never see him again, and maybe it's a good thing. He walked out of my life last night for once and for all. I know with sickening certainty that it's the end.”
“Yet I liked him too much - - - way too much, and I ripped him out of my heart so it wouldn't get to hurt me more than it did.”
saahireads's review against another edition
5.0
Okay, it’s been about 2 days since I’ve finished this book and I can’t stop thinking about moments from it
biatheway's review against another edition
5.0
It's so hard to sit down and write a review about someone's journals, specially someone so important and significant in the literary world while I can barely understand her poetry all the way through.
It's weird to feel entitled to analyze someone's struggles or even say I relate to them in 2022 with all the advances women have made and the advantages I have because of them, yet I can't help but say that I do relate.
Early on we see her agony with being an ambitious person in the body of a woman who should be cheerful, beautiful and pure while almost secretly obsessing on her inteligence to better her writing. The Journals themselves appear to only exist as an exercise of writing. Later on Plath repeats several times that she should keep quiet about her goals and aspirations and not bother her husband about it. Maybe because she thought people would doubt her capability or judge her progress but she stood many things on her own.
I kept thinking of A Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir, where the different protagonists get lost in their own obsessions, turning into what people love to call "hysterical". It's hard to not bring the feminist issue here, women at the time were expected to play a certain role in society, one which almost completely erases their inteligence. Lots of the struggles that come with this role are supposed to be suppressed and kept down and when she finally bursts and collapses people will simply say she's another woman gone mad, the weaker sex, the second sex.
The Bell Jar changed my life and made me want to know more and more about Plath, her Journals bring many discussions for the table and her life ends up being a social study which often turns very insensitive, I hope I did her justice with this review.
It's weird to feel entitled to analyze someone's struggles or even say I relate to them in 2022 with all the advances women have made and the advantages I have because of them, yet I can't help but say that I do relate.
Early on we see her agony with being an ambitious person in the body of a woman who should be cheerful, beautiful and pure while almost secretly obsessing on her inteligence to better her writing. The Journals themselves appear to only exist as an exercise of writing. Later on Plath repeats several times that she should keep quiet about her goals and aspirations and not bother her husband about it. Maybe because she thought people would doubt her capability or judge her progress but she stood many things on her own.
I kept thinking of A Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir, where the different protagonists get lost in their own obsessions, turning into what people love to call "hysterical". It's hard to not bring the feminist issue here, women at the time were expected to play a certain role in society, one which almost completely erases their inteligence. Lots of the struggles that come with this role are supposed to be suppressed and kept down and when she finally bursts and collapses people will simply say she's another woman gone mad, the weaker sex, the second sex.
The Bell Jar changed my life and made me want to know more and more about Plath, her Journals bring many discussions for the table and her life ends up being a social study which often turns very insensitive, I hope I did her justice with this review.
nelkku's review against another edition
2.0
yes I did only read this because it became available for free on audible after having been on my 'currently reading' shelf since summer of 2016 when i read the first 180 pages from the bookshelf in my sublet room in Vienna during an internship, but nobody can tell me i don't finish things ever again.