The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons from Jane Austin to Laura Ingalls Wilder

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In Heroine's Bookshelf, Erin Blakemore makes a compelling case that reading great novels and sharing them with loved-ones is the key to happiness and success in life. “Time travel, redemption, escape, and self-knowledge are all neatly bound and sewn into the modest covers of the books we pass from hand to hand, library to purse, mother to daughter, where heroines’ lessons live long after they’ve gone out of print or disintegrated from love and wear,” she writes.  Each chapter is a stand-alone essay delving into the life lessons taught by one of literature’s most inspiring heroines and the author who gave her life. Included are stalwarts such as Lizzy Bennet and Jane Austen, Janie Crawford and Zora Neale Hurston, and Mary Lennox and Frances Hodgson Burnett. Heroine’s Bookshelf would make a thoughtful and entertaining book club read.