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The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
3.0

For an old book, this sure does stand the test of time. Really just sad that women’s health issues are STILL not taken seriously. I think Charlotte would be disappointed to hear that scientists only JUST started testing period products on REAL blood. 
Despite being really short, I think it explores the alienation of women struggling with health issues perfectly. Never taken seriously and completely shrugged off as either being pregnant or a side effect of birth control. 
The ending was a little too abrupt for me, I would have preferred the book be longer so we could delve further and further into the madness, it just felt like the story wasn’t fully fleshed out :(

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