All of us are familiar with Hermione Granger’s love for reading but did you know that Emma Watson too shares her love for books with the characters she played onscreen like Hermione and Belle.
Apart from being an amazing actress Emma is also a spokesperson for gender equality. The British actor is an avid reader and has launched an online feminist book club, Our Shared Shelf, to promote female writers from far and wide. Last year Watson even shared her lockdown reading list to get us all reaching for a good read. “My completely unmissable essentials from quarantine reading – thank you @glennondoyle, Robin Wall Kimmerer, @amateuradam and @c.rileysnorton. Thank you, thank you, thank you,” she posted on Instagram.
Let’s take a look on books she recommended for quarantine reading.
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Untamed is Glennon Doyle’s third book and was published in April 2020. The book very beautifully captures what it means to be a woman today’s world. It has already gained a lot of praise as it explores what it means to live a life that doesn’t comply with society’s expectations. Part memoir, it expresses what it really means to embrace your untamed self.
This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay
This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay has sold millions of copies so far. Published in 2017, it is a brilliant book. It follows life of a junior doctor during his medical training from 2004 to 2010. Written as a series of diary entries, it’s both funny and insightful. If you are up for some good laughs and a few sad tears pick this up!
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Published in 2013, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer is a non-fiction book asking questions about botany. Seen through the eyes of a botanist and Native American, this book looks to Native American traditions and Western science for the answers about plant life.
Black On Both Sides: A Racial History Of Trans Identity by C Riley Snorton
Black On Both Sides: A Racial History Of Trans Identity by C Riley Snorton is set in the post-war era. The book throws light at the erasure of mid-century trans narratives. Snorton shows us how blackness and transness from then has affected anti-black and anti-trans legislation today.
