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A review by kmthomas06
How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much by Samantha Ellis
4.0
While I might not always agree with Ellis's reading of some heroines (I don't care what you say, I love Rilla Blythe and that's that and the fact you clearly have never read Jane of Lantern Hill is a bit of a worry but then I never read the Emily books so I'll call it even and be done), I do love a book that makes me think about the evolution of my heroines over time and a book that gives me new ones to go read in the future is even better.
Ellis has a very unique background that she brings to her re-examination of some of literature's favorite heroines that I could appreciate and liked having our very different backgrounds to compare and understand why we read the same characters differently. It reminded me of the best of my English classes in undergrad and Ellis has a charming voice that is also brutally honest about her mindset when she first ran into the heroines and her mindset upon revisiting them years later.
Ellis has a very unique background that she brings to her re-examination of some of literature's favorite heroines that I could appreciate and liked having our very different backgrounds to compare and understand why we read the same characters differently. It reminded me of the best of my English classes in undergrad and Ellis has a charming voice that is also brutally honest about her mindset when she first ran into the heroines and her mindset upon revisiting them years later.