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Mary
Dec 28, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Summer 2016 Bingo - about a disease. I've had this in my Kindle library for a while; Sara read it in high school and told me she thought I'd like it. She was right. I loved the way Plath wove the flashbacks and the current timeline together. It felt the way her reality(ies?) might be tumbling into each other and we're never sure what's real and now and what she might be dreaming. The feminism and sexuality themes are really interesting - must talk with my mother about those aspects.
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MacDuff
Mar 03, 2008 rated it liked it
Shelves: read-in-2008
I found this in my mom's basement when I was cleaning up some things, and decided that since I didn't read it when I was in high school, I better get on it.

I wasn't disappointed, that's for sure. For the first half of the book, I felt like I was really associating with a lot of what she said. The general malaise associated with being a young woman and not knowing what you're doing/where you're going was definitely something I can relate to, or could relate to, when I was younger. And Sylvia Plat
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Aimee
Mar 18, 2008 rated it did not like it
Shelves: did-not-finish
Emily
Apr 27, 2008 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: classics
Eileen Anderson
Jun 02, 2008 rated it it was ok
Victoria Sandbrook
Jul 27, 2008 marked it as to-read
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Jul 28, 2008 rated it really liked it
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Oct 03, 2008 rated it really liked it
Terri
Nov 07, 2008 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Mar 25, 2009 rated it it was amazing
Lisa
Mar 28, 2009 rated it really liked it
April
Jan 07, 2010 rated it it was amazing
Josh
Jan 18, 2010 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Martha
Apr 24, 2010 rated it really liked it
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Lisa
Aug 19, 2010 rated it liked it
Rachel
Apr 14, 2011 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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May 26, 2011 rated it really liked it
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Sep 12, 2013 rated it it was ok
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Jan 16, 2014 rated it it was amazing
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Mar 20, 2014 rated it really liked it
Claire Jefferies
Jun 07, 2014 rated it really liked it
Shelves: own-it
Kelli Poward
Jul 31, 2014 rated it it was amazing