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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
“‘How do you feel?’ ‘All right.’ But I didn’t. I felt terrible.” I feel incredibly conflicted over Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. On the one hand, I found it to be an ingenious and striking read, one that immortalizes in exacting detail a young woman’s slow descent into psychosis and offers a piercing commentary on…
1950s, 1st pov, 20th century, 3 STARS, Adult, ALIENATION, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, american classics, ASYLUM, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, books about writers, BOSTON, CLASSICS, DEPRESSION, doctors, ennui, female authors, feminism, feverish, HISTORICAL FICTION, HOSPITAL, introspective, LITERARY FICTION, loneliness, Massachusetts, MEMORY, mental health, modern classics, NEW YORK, paranoia, problematic, PSYCHIATRISTS & THERAPISTS, psychological, published in 1963, read in 2021, reading, self-destructive, self-harming, sexual assault/abuse/rape, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, suicide, sylvia plath, terrific prose, The Bell Jar, unreliable narrators -
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
This is the second work that I’ve read by Yukio Mishima and I’m afraid to say that, unlike Star, I found an unappealing read. I was expecting the story to focus on Noboru Kuroda and the gang of boys he hangs out with but most of the narrative is dedicated to the romantic & sexual…
1950s, 1960s, 2 STARS, 3rd pov, Adult, ALIENATION, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, CLASSICS, japan, JAPANESE AUTHOR, japanese classics, LGBTQ+ Author, male authors, My reviews, published in 1963, read in 2021, reading, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, TRANSLATED FICTION, violence, Yukio Mishima -
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg — book review
From the first page I was drawn by Natalia Ginzburg’s incredibly vivid prose. The title of this memoir encapsulates much of Ginzburg’s recollection of her family. She remembers in minute detail the way in which within her family certain words and phrases had a particular significance or meaning, one that is known only by a…
1930S, 1940s, 1st pov, 20th century, 4.5 STARS, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, CHILDHOOD, CLASSICS, family, Family Lexicon, fascism, female authors, growing up, HISTORICAL FICTION, Italian Author, Italian classics, Italy, Jewish, Lessico famigliare, MARRIAGE, MEMOIR, modern classics, Natalia Ginzburg, Nonfiction, politics, published in 1963, READ IN 2019, read in Italian, REVIEW, war, WWII
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