How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading too Much (Vintage Original)
Format: kindle
ISBN:
9781101872109
ASIN: B00P5557JE
Publish date: 2015-02-03
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Language,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Books About Books,
Adult,
Feminism,
Biography Memoir
This book is part memoir part literary critique, and over all I found it really interesting despite not having read the vast majority of the books discussed. Samantha Ellis goes on a mission to reassess her childhood heroines and books that she loved. I found Ellis' life to be really interesting ...
I absolutely loved this book. Part memoir, part literary analysis. Part self-help book, part writing guide. This book has a little bit of everything. Ellis journeys back in time and rereads some of her favorite heroines as an adult and analyses them in a feminist light. Connecting these to her own l...
Those who don’t enjoy reading may assume it’s a solitary activity, and they’d be partly correct because page turning (physical or virtual) is usually done alone. But we literature lovers crave community as much as any social animal. It’s why we join book clubs and haunt web sites like GoodReads, Boo...
Thank you to Knopf Doubleday for providing me with an advance digital copy of this book! I've never been so intrigued and entertained by literary criticism. This book was like a trip down Nostalgia Lane, re-meeting my childhood heroines and stories, and I loved sharing Ellis' connections and memor...
A memoir in books with an emphasis on how women and girls are treated in different works of fiction. A fun, quick read.
20 years ago
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