Introduction to The Bell Jar

My next book that I will be reading is called The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath. It's a Classic American Narrative and sounds like a book older people would read and is not like the teenage novels that I've been reading in the past. It is about a woman named Esther Greenwood and her normal life slowly but surely turning into a crazy life with her going into insanity. I can't wait to read this book because it says in the summary that some of the written ideas were pulled out of Sylvia Plath's own life and it could be like semi- autobiography. I'm guessing the closer the book it is to Sylvia,the better and more realistic approach it has.A middle aged woman who has a mental breakdown seems quite interesting and exciting , also disturbing at a point but I hope it's a good read. If I read at least100 pages a week, it will take me atleast 3 weeks to finish it.Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts and committed suicide on February 11th, 1963. An interesting fact about her and this book is how the plot of Esther and Sylvia match, they were both at a magazine convention and started to slowly lose sense of their life and become mentally illAnother interesting fact I just found out about Sylvia Plath and The Bell Jar is that this book was published around the time of her death under a pseudonym or pen name Victoria Lucas in 1963. However, in 1971, by demand of her family's protests, they published The Bell Jar under Sylvia Plath's name.