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Informative and entertaining mash of memoir and literary criticism
This is an interesting hybrid. Is it a personal memoir filtered through the lens of a raft of feminist literary criticism? Or feminist literary criticism filtered through the lens of one reader's life? Either way you take it, it's good.
As memoirs go, it's a bit on the light side, as Ellis's insights into her life and state of mind are interspersed throughout with recounting of plots of the books she's read and examinations of how she (and often others) interpret the women who people them. To be frank, Ellis's own life story seems interesting enough; from a family of Iraqi-Jewish refugees, challenged by an inexplicable seizure disorder, she is a journalist and playwright who could easily be the center of a literary classic such as those she discusses here. I would have enjoyed getting to know her more.
As literary criticism goes, this book was a total winner for me. By owning her biases - discussing how her reading of the characters and stories she's analyzing...
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