La campana di vetro

There are many who have read The Bell Jar and absolutely loved it. I am gladly considering myself one of them. I was a little caught of guard when I read a few reviews of The Bell Jar comparing it to The Catcher in the Rye stating how it's the female version of it. I liked Catcher but I know there a Leggi tutto

i did not know that if you're mentally ill you're allowed to be mean and annoying. i wish i had done things differently. i do get why this is a classic. some reasons it is, in order of niceness to not niceness: -it is very beautifully written -that fig paragraph is probably one of the best passages on Leggi tutto

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, Leggi tutto

there once was a girl from the bay state who tried to read finnegan's wake . it made her so ill, she took loads of pills. james joyce has that knack to frustrate. come to my blog!

“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.” It had been a number of years since I last read Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar . What I’d remembered most was how well Plath had established the mood for this story by weaving the electrocutions of Julius Leggi tutto