Sarah Jessica Parker can add another competence to her long curriculum vitae – Speed Reader.
The star “and like that …” is currently reading up to two pounds a day while she is preparing to become a Booker prize judge this year, she told Pen America’s literary gala on Thursday.
The Booker Prize is a prestigious British literary prize awarded a novel written in English each year. The panel of judgment of five people is made up of authors, journalists as well as politicians, musicians and actors.
Parker, 60, who has his own book imprint entitled SJP reads for Zando, knows that it is an “honor” and a “privilege” of being a judge but admits that it can be trying.
“It is intense to read (this number of books), the volume is a little difficult to transmit, which is that to have as many books as we have the opportunity to read in a month … This is something.”
The actress shared that she was able to do so because her schedule has freed himself.
“I did not do it last year because I knew I was shooting and did the series [“And Just Like That…”]And I knew this year that I had another little time at my disposal, to read in the morning until evening.
“Any opportunity to read, I read.”
The star of “Hocus Pocus” has been a library rat since she was a child, a habit that was encouraged by her mother and something she transmitted to her three children.
“We always had a ton of books in the house and we were regular visitors to the library,” she shared. “We were not allowed to leave the house without book in our hands, even when we were toddlers and we could not read.”
“She has constantly read us,” continued Parker, “so I did the same for my children, and they came to the same conclusion, which is (that) the books are the greatest possible friends you can have.”
A multitude of authors were also at the event, which Honoré Parker, notably Jodi Picoult, Robert Caro, Judy Blume, Michael Cunningham and Dina mengestu.
Picoult, who sold millions of pounds, said on page six that she was somewhat surprised by fans who are upset by her anti-president of social media Trump.
“If you read my books, it would be really difficult not to know where my inclinations are,” she shared.
However, what upsets it even more are comments that complain: “I shouldn’t be political and I should simply write.
“All books are political; No one writes in the void. “
