The Literary questionnaire of
Tara Emad
Actress and friend of the House Tara Emad
shares the books that have changed her life.
Does your lifestyle allow you to read as much as you would like to?
As a matter of fact, yes! I always have a book to read while I’m on set or when travelling by plane. Two years ago, I got introduced to audiobooks and it’s my favourite thing to do while driving.
Is there a particular book that has affected how you lead your life?
It would be extremely difficult to narrow it down to one book. But here are a few that have significantly affected me and changed how I lead my life every day: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, Confucius from the Heart by Dan Yu, When the Body Says No by Gabor Mate and Becoming the One by Sheleana Aiyana.
What is the most liberating book you have read?
Matthew Perry's Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.
What is the most harrowing book you have ever read?
Finding Me by Viola Davis.
“I always have a book to read while I’m on set or when travelling by plane. Two years ago, I got introduced to audiobooks and it’s my favourite thing to do while driving.”
Which fictional heroine would you like to be?
Elizabeth Bennet from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice or Nora Seed from Matt Haig's The Midnight Library.
What is the best place to read?
Wherever I have a book with me !
Are you more romance novel or adventure novel?
Romance novel.
Do you prefer long novels or short stories?
Definitely long ones. When it’s a good novel, I get so attached to the characters that I don’t want it to end.
Which book would you like to see adapted to film?
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig and Beer in the Snooker Club by Waguih Ghali.
The title of a book you always offer as a gift?
I can’t decide on one but these are some of the books that I always recommend: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb, Will by Will Smith, Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb, Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea and Almost French by Sarah Turnbull.
Bibliographic
record
Siddharta, Hermann Hesse
A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
Confucius from the heart, Dan Yu
When the Body Says No, Gabor Mate
Becoming the One, Sheleana Aiyana
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Mathew Perry
Finding Me, Viola Davis
In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
Beer in the Snooker Club, Waguih Ghali
Will, Will Smith
Maybe you should talk to someone, Lori Gottlieb
Born a Crime, Trevor Noah
Sweetness in the Belly, Camilla Gibb
Girls of Riyadh, Rajaa Alsanea
Almost French, Sarah Turnbull
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha © 1922, Suhrkamp Verlag AG, Berlin.
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle © Eckhart Tolle, 2005. Published by Penguin Random House US.
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom © Mitch Albom, 1997. Published by Penguin Random House US. All Rights Reserved.
© Yu Dan, Confucius from the Heart: Ancient Wisdom for Today's World, 2006.
Copyright © 2003 Gabor Maté. Published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada. All rights reserved.
When the Body Says No by Gabor Maté. Originally Published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company LLC Copyright © 2011 by Gabor Maté. All rights reserved.
When the Body Says No by Gabor Maté © Gabor Maté, 2019. Published by Penguin Random House UK.
Becoming the One by Sheleana Aiyana © 2022.
Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing © Headline, 2022.
The Midnight Library © Matt Haig, 2020, Canongate Books.
Finding Me by Viola Davis. Copyright © 2022 by Viola Davis. Published by HarperCollins Publishers.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813.
Waguih Ghali, Beer in the Snooker Club © Serpent's tail, 1964.
Will by Will Smith and Mark Manson © Treyball Content LLC, 2021. Published by Penguin Random House US.
Maybe you should talk to someone by Lori Gottlieb. Copyright © 2019 by Lori Gottlieb. Published by HarperCollins Publishers.
Born a crime by Trevor Noah © Trevor Noah Penguin, 2016. Published by Penguin Random House US.
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb © Camilla Gibb, 2005. Published by Penguin Random House UK.
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb © Camilla Gibb, 2005. Published by Penguin Random House
US
Almost French by Sarah Turnbull © Sarah Turner, 2002. Published by Penguin Random House.
Almost French by Sarah Turnbull © Sarah Turnbull, 2002, used by arrangement with Curtis Brown Australia.
Almost French by Sarah Turnbull © Sarah Turner, 2002. Published by Penguin Random House Australia / New-Zealand.
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