How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much by Samantha Ellis

How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much

Samantha Ellis

264 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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While debating literature’s greatest heroines with her best friend, thirtysomething playwright Samantha Ellis has a revelation—her whole life, she's been trying to be Cathy Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights when she should have been trying to be Jane ...

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reflective 88%
inspiring 55%
funny 48%
hopeful 40%
informative 40%
lighthearted 40%
emotional 33%
relaxing 18%
adventurous 3%
challenging 3%

Pace

medium 62%
slow 18%
fast 18%

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