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Ann
May 23, 2018 rated it really liked it
Shelves: 2018-aty-52
Short and very creepy.
Best experienced as an audiobook.
Laura (booksnob)
This is one amazing little book. A highly feminist story that deals with the role of women as wife and mother and how many succumb to the pressures and lose who they are individually and tend to give up on their dreams. (I know there are probably to many "ands" in that sentence) The story is narrated by a woman who is confined after the birth of her child to cure her "nervous condition". She is confined to a room with yellow wallpaper. I would compare this book to The Awakening by Kate Chopin an ...more
Lindsay
Jun 06, 2008 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Kaley
Jul 06, 2008 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Catherine
Aug 09, 2008 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Telly
Jul 29, 2010 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Erica
Aug 30, 2010 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: women
Claire Fun
Oct 08, 2021 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: feminism
Stacey
Jan 22, 2012 rated it it was amazing
Dana Arbelaez
Mar 11, 2012 marked it as to-read
Te-ge Bramhall
Mar 14, 2012 rated it really liked it
Lindsay
Jul 26, 2012 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Rebecca
Jul 08, 2013 rated it it was amazing
Kami Smith
Nov 02, 2013 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Kami Smith
Nov 02, 2013 rated it it was amazing
Tracyene
Feb 04, 2014 marked it as to-read
Oana
Feb 15, 2014 marked it as to-read
Nancy
Sep 20, 2015 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Wendy
Feb 05, 2016 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Jessica
Oct 09, 2016 marked it as to-read
Nikki Morse
Dec 31, 2017 rated it liked it
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Kathy Jo
Apr 29, 2018 marked it as to-read