I'm off to the woods again this weekend to do a photoshoot with a few friends. Back on Monday, likely smelling like campfire.
The last few weeks I've been queuing up a summer reading stack for forthcoming July travels -- Munich for the film festival, the Austrian Alps for a wedding, Berlin to see family and Paris is looking like it may squeeze itself in there as well. I am hoping for lots of reading time...
Here's what I've got so far:
Father Away: Essays, Jonathan Franzen
Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward
Blue Nights, Joan Didion
Common as Air, Lewis Hyde
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
The Lifespan of a Fact, John D'Agata
Blankets, Craig Thompson
Imagined Communities, Benedict Arnold
Swamplandia, Karen Russell
When I Was a Child, I Read Books, Marilynne Robinson
A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers (forthcoming)
What else should I consider?
Peace Like a River, Leif Enger
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I am so excited that you´ll be showing Girl Walk // All Day in my lovely hometown munich! I´ve been following your blog and the movie project and I am really happy to find out that it will be shown in my neighbourhood.
ReplyDeleteI already marked the day. See you there and lots of ongoing luck with this amazing project!
can I recommend that you read blankets first?!! it is a beautiful book and the most human story I've ever read. it took me while to give it a chance being that it's a graphic novel but it's in my top 3 best books ever. I love that last quote he ends the novel with... it's just so inspiring.....
ReplyDelete& these are some of my favorite books.
a tree grows in brooklyn (betty smith)
the glass castle (jeanette walls)
extremely loud & incredibly close (jonathan safran foer)
i just finished late nights on air (http://www.amazon.ca/Late-Nights-Air-Elizabeth-Hay/dp/0771038119). seriously so good! best one i've read in awhile.
ReplyDeleteSorry no book recommendations from me but what a nice surprise that you will be showing Girl Walk // All Day here at the Munich Filmfest. Lovely! I hope you have a great time here, I am looking forward to the screening.
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