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“To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckinesses, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend a lifetime trying to learn and understand.”

Anyone that knows me knows I adore all things Sylvia Plath. She can explicate the inexplicable. She finds structure in disorder. She is haunting in her absence. It’s like she explains my mind better than my mind ever can could or will

So when I came across a novel that reimagines her life I was enthralled by the way it characterizes her mental illness, her relationship with sexton, and her legacy.

This is by far the most accurate figure skating NOVEL I’ve read also like tell me why Johnny weir literally narrated part of it!!!! Hello

99% sure I’ve read this before the 1% of me is stating this is just Hamlet but way earlier

“Because she feared people wouldn’t love her for what she was, she hoped they would love her for what she could give”

Annie Ernaux, A Woman’s Story pg. 57

“Because she feared people wouldn’t love her for what she was, she hoped they would love her for what she could give”

Annie Ernaux, A Woman’s Story pg. 57

May Swenson lives rent free in my head

This a little too familiar… uncanny

Fisher is the worst

Ivan is awful and selin has developed more personality but it’s not great 😭⁉️

I’m very glad at this point to have taken linguistics and psychology 😅😅