A review by rhaines46
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

Very interesting writing style, pretty psychoanalytical but in (I guess) a 50s way where emotional states get diagnosed as things like "frozen", "fragmented", and yes, also "depressed". It's not really a book about being a women (as the preface clarified) but it's easy to read that way because it makes a lot of comprehensible points about gender whereas the larger point it's supposed to make about having a fragmented self is really pretty confusing.