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Jenny, glad to see you! How are things going?


Pink wrote: "I liked this when I read it years ago....not sure if I'd still enjoy it quite as much today, though I do love her poetry."
Ditto to Pink. I liked the novel, but I think I prefer the poetry.
Ditto to Pink. I liked the novel, but I think I prefer the poetry.

Jenny, glad to see you! How are things going?"
Good Leslie, just living in trains and on planes at the minute, so sitting still on my couch at home for a few days seems paradise!! ;)
I remember really liking the book, though strangely, I have little recollection of it. I would like to dig deeper into her poetry. So far I've only read a few of her poems.
This is a great book, it was the first novel I studied in my Madness in Literature module in university last year. I loved how poetic it was.
I do have to admit that because I enjoyed this book so much, I think I may have judged Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen a little too harshly as I couldn't help but compare the two.
I do have to admit that because I enjoyed this book so much, I think I may have judged Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen a little too harshly as I couldn't help but compare the two.

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Book 85 in this series is The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. It was first published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, mostly to spare the feelings of Plath's mother and other real life characters in the novel. In 1966 it was re-published under her real name and quickly gained status of a modern classic.
Sylvia Plath's suicide February 1963, one month after the first release of 'The Bell Jar', strongly influenced the reception of her novel.
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