The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath | Book Review
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Original Publication Date: 1963 Genres: American Literature, Fiction, Illness Source: I purchased this book Goodreads In The Bell Jar, a vulnerable young woman wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath’s own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, The Bell Jar is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman’s aspirations in a society that refuses to take them seriously… a society that expects electroshock to cure the despair of a sensitive, questioning young artist whose search for identity…
Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker | Book Review
Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker Original Publication Date: Originally published 1962 Genres: American Literature, Fiction, Illness, LGTBQ Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, and miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, however, is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding. Her Sister Is Getting Married Cassandra and Judith are 24-year-old twins. Up until the last nine months, they had shared almost everything together. That included an apartment in Berkeley…
Tomorrow Will Be Better by Betty Smith | Book Review
Tomorrow Will Be Better by Betty Smith Original Publication Date: 1948 Genres: Fiction, American Literature Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Tomorrow Will Be Better tells the story of Margy Shannon, a shy but joyfully optimistic young woman just out of school who lives with her parents and witnesses how a lifetime of hard work, poverty, and pain has worn them down. Her mother’s resentment toward being a housewife and her father’s inability to express his emotions result in a tense home life where Margy has no voice. Unable to speak up against her overbearing mother, Margy takes refuge in her dreams of a better life. Tomorrow Will Be Better Margy…
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Book Review
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Original Publication Date: 2019 Genres: American Literature, Fiction Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now. Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and…
People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry | Book Review
People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry Original Publication Date: 2021 Genres: Fiction, American Literature Source: I borrowed this book from the library. Goodreads People We Meet On Vacation: Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car ride home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year, they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in…
