Miss Wisey Pants

  " Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. " The Bell Jar, to the say the least, was a profound read. It was difficult for me to pick just one quote from the book for the intro. But if I tried to add anymore, I'd simply be rewriting the entire book in this post. Every word, every sentence you read in this book has a purpose. I fail to understand why I didn't chance upon this book sooner.  In this book, Sylvia Plath chronicles the slow descend of her alter-ego, Esther Greenwood, into depression. Esther is successful, smart, talented and beautiful, yet adrift. Somewhere in the book Esther says "I was supposed to be having the time of my life". But she finds herself incapable of doing so. Ironically enough, she isn't sad. She just feels empty, like a shell. She wants to do so many thing...

"Lord our God, hear my prayer, the prayer of my heart. Bless the largeness inside me, no matter how I fear it. Bless my reed pens and my inks. Bless the words I write. May they be beautiful in your sight. May they be visible to eyes not yet born. When I am dust, sing these words over my bones: she was a voice." The Book of Longings is author Sue Monk Kidd's narrative of Jesus's fictional wife Ana. I thought the concept was fascinating! We all know that all the scriptures and holy sermons have always pronounced that Jesus was unmarried. But SMK questions this belief and conjures up a story about Jesus's wife. What if he did have a wife whom he loved and was devoted to? There's no record of Jesus from the age of twelve until the age of thirty. The author has, very artfully, woven a story around this unrecorded period of his life.  The novel envisions Jesus as a human, not as a God. A stonemason who emerges as a social prophet and a Messiah who announced the comi...