The Bell Jar

  “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

Today I'm talking about Sylvia Plath, my favorite writer e v e r.
For three reasons only:
One, it's raining, and it was raining the first time I read The Bell Jar.
Two, when I was re-reading my old journal, I quoted her like a thousand times.
Three, I'm going to name my future daughter Sylvia.

And I know what you're thinking--Gross, who would name their child after someone who committed suicide with her children in the next room? Uh, because she's beautiful and I've loved her since high school so keep quiet.

I've read The Bell Jar probably five times, but the first time I read it was my favorite because my mind was blown continually as I was reading. I had read ZERO of the book reviews beforehand--I didn't even know what the book was about--so everything was a shock to me. I never knew how fascinating it would be to read, in first person, about a person going crazy. Plath is such an amazing, yet troubled, person that the book is partly autobiographical. Crazy, right?

Anyway, all I know is that you should read this book if you haven't already for plenty of reasons. And you're going to love this book if you love her, or if you love her poetry, or if you love psychology, or if you are just so bored out of your mind that you don't know what to do with yourself. Read it and you will not regret it.

// “When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
"Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”//

Read more of her quotes from the book here.