Hmm, this is a very long entry, and the build is slow, but basically it's the story of a decades-long instance of sockpuppetry in academia. Layers upon layers of deceit, quite amazing: [link]

Mmm-hmm.

I still want to read the book! Although I can't imagine why they didn't put a picture of Plath on the cover.

I read a good chunk of it, and couldn't really get into it, though I'm sure plenty of people will love it. I just came away from it thinking, "Wow, I really don't care about fashion. Like, at all."

But it's Sylvia! I have to read it. I also need to reread The Bell Jar.

I know! And I love Sylvia. I just don't really care what lipstick she liked.

Sylvia was my first sort of hardcore obsession fandom. My favorite was Letters Home, which I know her mother heavily edited, but even so -- it's a fuller picture of her than her poetry alone, and Aurelia doesn't come off completely blameless.

I liked that book too.

One of the things I liked about it was that it did show that she was both of her time, and forward-thinking. I remember reading one letter where she's talking about how much she wants to break into the women's magazines, and I was shocked. But she's poet! She can't do silly, commercial stuff! She really wanted to do everything.

I need some readerly advice. If one wanted to know more about Death, Terry Pratchet's Discworld, after having only seen a couple of the lovely tv shows - "Color of Magic" and "Hogfather", etc - without having read any of the Discworld books yet, which book might be most profitable as starting points?

ETA: I ask this, having read the Wikipedia entry on it, so having some clue which books Death is in as more than just a cameo. But if does not necessarily really tell me which is the best starting point for a complete n00b.

Mort is the one I'd recommend, I think. Unless you just want to start with Colour of Magic and plow through them all, of course.

[link] may be helpful.