#Heather Clark

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NEUTRALITY, BOREDOM become worse sins than murder, worse than illicit love affairs. BE RIGHT OR WRONG, don’t be indifferent, don’t be NOTHING. 

Sylvia Plath, to her Smith College students in 1958, quoted in ‘Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath’ by Heather Clark

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Now she is flying More terrible than she ever was, red Scar in the sky, red comet Over the engine that killed her---- The mausoleum, the wax house.

Sylvia Plath, "Stings"

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!NEW RELEASE!

Title: Sylvia Plath: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Heather Clark (author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, 2020)

Publication date: already out in the UK, US: 21 November 2024

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Pages: 144

Image source (cover & description): https://global.oup.com/

About the book:

Provides a concise introduction to one of the most influential and iconic American writers of the twentieth century, exploring the major events in Plath's life and themes in her work

Reframes Plath's work within the broader context of poetic confessionalism, biography, feminism, politics, and mental illness

Written by a leading expert on Sylvia Plath

Part of the Very Short Introductions series - over ten million copies sold worldwide

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It's the perfect book for you if you have just discovered Sylvia Plath and want to get a quick overview of her life and work. It's also a great as a first book if you want to introduce her to someone else. Or if you want to brush-up your knowledge!

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“The woman (Plath) is perfected,” the poem’s first line reads—“not perfect, perfected,” Clark notes, “like a work of art, an experiment, something controlled.”

— Elisa Gabbert, Any Person is the Only Self: Essays (FSG Originals, June 11, 2024)

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Sylvia was amazed by the clarity of the night sky in Maine. She saw her first shooting star and called the Milky Way “a gossamer scar flung across the sky.”

Heather Clark from Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

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Sketched some stage show gelphie pairings I've enjoyed (so far) and by enjoyed I mean that their thank goodness & finale performances low-key hurt my soul

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Some videogame chibis.

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bones sexuality headcanons

yeah i dont have proof (except angela) i just Know. call it my lesbian spidey senses. disclaimer that those are MY headcanons, you can have your own opinions on those ofc

main characters:

brennan: bi (preference for ugly men... but i digress). she probably started exploring her sexual orientiation in college and came to the conclusion that she's attracted to every gender to varying degrees. she's probably tongue kissed angela a few times pre season 1

booth: cishet ally! ⭐️ he's a bit confused but he's got the spirit, i'll give him that.. bi wife energy start playing whenever he walks into the room

zack: gayboi with a bad case of hero worship for dr brennan. naomi from paleonthology made him realise this isnt really what he'd like to excavate, if you get the gist... ;) (ew)

angela: imo? bi, but it's up to anyone. canon queer and i'm very happy about it

hodgins: bi. putting my foot down on this one- to me, hodgela is bi4bi. one day early into the series angela goes "why is everyone so hot... being bi is so hard" and hodgins is like "yeah, tell me about it" and they have a Oh, You Too? moment

cam: distinguished (ex-disaster) pan. she's all cool and collected now but in middle school she was probably stuttering whenever she saw a pretty girl

sweets: pan. boykisser. i just KNOW. that man is not heterosexual. probably had a few boyfriends in high school too

aubrey: bi? preference for women but in an alternate universe he and sweets are a thing

goodman: token straightie along with booth except i actually like him even tho even tho he took a 2 month sabbatical and never came back

squinterns:

clark: bi. a bit repressed and only realised it after breaking up with nora but as long as he gets there it's fine

daisy: pan. absolute girlkisser. she has the wlw equivalent of whatever zack felt for dr brennan. swaisy is a disaster pan couple.

fisher: pan- and i wont have it any other way. he was 100% checking sweets out when he came over to b&b's in s8, so i like to think when hodgins asks sweets "what is it with you and interns?" in 9x23 he's including fisher

wendell: bi and in a lab au he's dating vincent thank you

vincent: english twink and i think he and wendell should kiss in the lab lost & found

arastoo: straightie but we still love him. pan wife energy since he and cam are married

finn: god, i have No Idea but i have a feeling he doesn't either

wells: aro, and maybe ace too, but fyi even if he wasn't no one would want him

jessica: ... i used to say lesbian but i kinda let the jaubrey of it all get to me... pan vibes perhaps? i'll have to think it over. in another universe she and daisy are a thing too btw

other characters:

caroline julian:... lesbian. no i will not give an explanation for this one. sham marriage and all.

karen delfs: big pansexual energy coming from this random profiler?? i like her

villains: (do not take those seriously, but also...)

pelant: unlabeled. getting strangled by hodgins awoke something in him but he didnt have the time to figure it out between 8x01 and 9x04

taffet: very VERY mean lesbian

epps: heterosexual incel

broadsky: internalised homophobia over booth, clearly

kovac: the man pretended to be married to his sister. i'm not sure i even wanna know

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Via Katie Rain's Instagram Story (December 11th, 2024)

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Her Romantic mind seized on violence as it did hurricanes and winter storms⁠—as a sublime force that brought her closer to an unveiling, an edge.

Heather Clark, from ‘Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath’

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August 2024 Wrap Up

And just like that summer is over. It went by in the blink of an eye. It was a good, if uneventful, month. I had my birthday, which always means new books! And that's enough to make me happy haha.

(Also please click the photo for better quality. Why must tumblr make them look bad?)

Books Read: 9

And it was a pretty great reading month! My favorite was Red Comet, which is current my top read of the year. And I don't think anything better is going to come along, but you never know. My least favorite was A Lesson in Vengeance, which I found disappointing. I was interested in what was happening, but there were a lot of small details that just ruined any believability for me. I also read my first book in French! I'm really proud of myself.

The Dry by Jane Harper - 3.5 stars

The Moors and the Fens by Charlotte Riddell - 3 stars

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee - 2.5 stars

Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes - 4 stars

The Doctor's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 4.5 stars

Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim - 4 stars

The Harpy by Megan Hunter - 4 stars

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark - 5 stars

Histoires ou contes du temps passé: contes de ma mère l'oie by Charles Perrault - 5 stars

On Tumblr:

Well at least there's a few things here.

July 2024 Wrap Up

Book Quotes: The Dry by Jane Harper

Book Quotes: The Doctor's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Tagged: Top 5 Book Poll

On YouTube:

And as always, there's plenty here.

July Wrap Up | 8 books for #janeaustenjuly

What I Read for My PhD in English Literature | Feminist Theory

What Books Have I Reread the Most?

Currently Reading 8/12/24

Birthday Book Haul! (plus some extras)

September TBR | Shaketember, Shorty September, & more!

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Did you know?

On 10 August 1941, Sylvia Plath published her first poem, titled simply "Poem" on the "Good Sport" page of the Sunday Boston Herald. In the note to the editor, she described the poem as "a short poem about what I see and hear on hot summer nights":

Hear the crickets chirping In the dewy grass Bright little fireflies Twinkle as they pass.

Source: Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath (2020)

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Emilia Clarke photographed for Elle Arabia

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CRIME SHOW MEME (CSI EDITION) ☆ [1/1] Recurring Character ↳ Lady Heather Kessler ✦ Portrayed by Melinda Clarke

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Ngl I kinda wanna make a Sbg Heather's au but Idk where to start