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The Bell Jar
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3.5
“I glare at myself as i glaze at the figs hanging over my head, I feel like I'm planting roots as I stall, such lavish banquet in front of me and yet not a single fruit I can pick, as if by feasting with my eyes I could seate my starved self.
I'm ravenous.
I shall devour”
“After decades of being on my TBR, finally read this one. There are parts that are relatable to today however other bits didn't age well over time. I'd caution anyone wanting to read it to look up trigger warnings.”
“The fear of wasting your potential is one of the most haunting themes in this novel, and it hit me hard.
Esther never truly wanted to die. She just wanted a life that could fulfill some of the missing pieces inside her, even if not all of them. She wanted to live.
The self-assured men, the relentless mansplaining, the mother who could never truly see her, and the so-called institutions of healing that often felt like laboratories of suffering all contributed to the suffocating world around her.
More than anything, this book felt like a portrait of someone desperately trying to find a place where she could simply exist as herself.
Like Esther's fig tree, the countless possibilities before me and the fear of choosing wrong—or never choosing at all—have become my own bell jar..”
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