The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“You're constantly reminded of grief, sorrow, complexity. Heart wrenching. You sometimes forget that she was a talented artist. Beautiful sketches. Bounces between revisions of poems, long form entries, and short staccato phrases. Favorite fragments: "Breakfast: grapefruit and black coffee Washed hair, smelled like lemons Wrote a few lines, none good Felt restless. Played Chopin"”

“just a few pages in and interestingly (amusingly) enough i’ve learned life didn’t spare sylvia from situationships. she’s literally also just a girl. her writing, her thoughts, her musings, and expression — it‘s like looking into a mirror. the bell jar was a favorite, specifically the fig tree analogy, it spoke to me at a time in my life i needed to be seen the most. i can’t believe i never read her journals before, but i believe in divine timing. i was meant to read it now because once again im at a phase in my life where i needed to be seen, and she sees me.”

“When I say I read this book religiously, I mean I read random pages from it each morning while drinking my coffee, like my Methodist grandmother used to read Bible devotionals. I love Plath's writing style and credit her as a great inspiration for my own journaling practice. She writes so elegantly about the experience of being a girl and becoming a woman, in a way that feels universally applicable and [almost] timeless.”