Sincerely, Avisyarbrough

Tag: classic literature

  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Book Review

                    When I first read The Bell Jar, I was about eighteen or nineteen years old, and I remember thinking that the book was good. So good that I picked up a biography about Sylvia Plath from the library and found out that some of what happens to Esther in The Bell Jar, happened to…

  • What I Will Next Be  Reading: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

    I  will  next  be reading “The Bell Jar”  by Sylvia Plath.  It is the story of a  young woman  who is  a  writer  that  is  also struggling  with  some issues.   Some facts I got from the  book are that it was published  a  few  weeks  before Sylvia Plath  committed  suicide  and  under  a pseudonym.  The…

  • D. H. Lawrence’s “Women in Love Review

    I  just  finished  reading D. H.  Lawrence’s  “Women  in Love.”  I  have  read  the  book  before  and  loved  it  but this time  my  feelings  are  more  muted.  I liked  it  a lot  but  it  was  a hard  read  to get through.  I  don’t  know  what  propelled  me  to read it the first  time  but  maybe …

  • Let Me Introduce Myself

    I  am  Avis,  the person  behind Sincerely,  Avis.  My  blog  is about  reading classic literature, and how  I think it enriches  one’s  life  to read  the classics.  I  don’t  mean that  in a pretentious  way,  but  in a way  that  you  read  anything  which  is for the good  stories  because  that  is  essentially why  the…