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    <body><![CDATA[Mothers/daughter relationships--unless you're part of the duo, you'll never, ever get it.  My boyfriend does, my brother doesn't--my father gets us both, but even he doesn't get us &quot;together.&quot;  As far as I can tell, how do you co-exist with someone you love, admire, hate, hope the best for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62789115">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The disparity between her bleak poetry and these almost desperately cheerful letters to her mother is heartbreaking.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Anyone with a particular interest in the life of Sylvia Plath (like me) would be intrigued by this book. It is a biography but it consists mainly of Sylvia's own letters to family and friends and, as she was such a voracious letter-writer, it is basically an autobiography also. The book gives tremen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44022085">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading The Bell Jar, I just had to know more about Sylvia Plath.  After finishing The Bell Jar, I felt hopeful for the main character, who is thinly disguised as Sylvia herself.  I wanted to know how the hopeful ending turned into suicide.  Reading Letters Home felt like a voyeuristic journey...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5510552">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this when it first came out. If your at all interested in Sylvia Plath or you've just read the Bell Jar, it would be a natural progression to read this next....to shed light on the Bell Jar and where that came from.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book about two million times when I was in college and then tried to write my own mother similar letters describing my fabulous college days.  I am fascinated by Sylvia Plath, as are so many people -- so talented and beautiful, and such a tragic life in so many ways.  Reading these lette...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34331833">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ideal for those studying Sylvia Plath - but I'd recommend the journals instead.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting. she writes her journals like a short novels.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Letters Home: Correspondence, 1950-1963 by Sylvia Plath (1992)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very sad...but well done. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Sylvia Plath depicted in these letters is often an optimistic one. A close read, however, reveals the too-optimistic tones underlying some letters in an attempt to make her mother feel things are better than they are. Overall, a fascinating read - I couldn't put it down! Am anxiously awaiting re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29405340">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have no idea why I'm reading this.  I pulled it out of the dumpster.<br/><br/>emetophilia?<br/><br/>a sort of pharyngeal exerciser.  I do like books of correspondences of everyone from E Hemingway and E Pound and TS Eliot to Adams-Jefferson (some of the best ever) and Flaubert.<br/><br/>In a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9679778">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[These are my favorite things that Sylvia Plath wrote. Her letters home show what an insecure, smart, and timid girl she was, most of the time. Anyway that's what I got out of them. I enjoy her letters to her mother more than any of her poetry.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am in love with this woman. Sylvia Plath was absolutly brilliant, despite what people say about her. If she had written what she did without people knowing that she was depressed and a woman, people would think much higher of her.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I did this as a Readers Theatre at Spotlight when I first moved here 5 years ago. I was Sylvia. I think 10 people were in the audience, but it was amazing to play her. The letters are heartbreaking. A good companion to the Bell Jar.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[reading segments at various intervals.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's about her correspondence--chiefly to her mother, period 1950 - 1963, which edited by Aurelia Schober Plath. From the day she was at Smith College until her suicide in London..]]></body>
    
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