The author of mega best-selling Educated tells all about her reading habits.
You get the idea.
They are really sweet because in the end, they are about living with people as you find them.
‘Educated’ author Tara Westover.Paul Stuart; Random House
The book I read in secret as a teenager
Harry Potter.
Mill gave me a way to think through those experiences and ideas.
It’s a work of genius.
My literary crush
Hilary Mantel.
I don’t know how anyone could read her sentences and not feel that way.
The range of her talent is astonishing.
The last book that made me cry
Um, alsoThe Candy House.
There’s a story in there about a woman and two daughters.
I had to put the book down for several minutes.
My favorite adaptation of a book
This is a tricky one for me.
I often have only read the books, or only seen the movies.
But like so many others I watchedMaidand thought it was excellent storytelling.
And a story that is not told very often.
A memoir I read to help inform my own writing
Oh, so many.
I suppose I lost the bet.
For this reason, technology and its effect on humans has become a niche interest of mine.
My favorites are Jaron Lanier’sYou Are Not a Gadgetand Mark O’Connell’sTo Be a Machine.
