ON BOOKS ~ The Bell Jar...

MizB asks you to:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page.
• Share the title of the book the teaser comes from…that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
• Please avoid spoilers!

From pg. 36 of THE BELL JAR by Sylvia Plath (fiction - sort-of)...

"We hugged each other and then said good-bye and went off to opposite ends of the hall to lie down in our own rooms. There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."

I chose this particular Teaser because it shows the terrific sense of humor that Sylvia Plath interjected throughout this book of such serious trauma. I went into this book expecting a dark, deep, terrifying experience about mental illness and suicidal thoughts that would leave me depressed for weeks on end. I wasn't even sure how it ended up on my To Read shelf and just wanted to get it over with so it would stop glaring at me. But I thoroughly enjoyed the mostly autobiographical experience Plath shared here. She placed me in her main character's shoes and gave me great perspective on being trapped inside yourself with a reality that doesn't mesh with what the rest of the world expects of you. And although the story can be dark, that sense of humor shone through a tale that is as much one of survival as anything else.