hi I'm Reese and this is my Harper's
Bazaar cover shoot the hello sunshine
book club was sort of born out of me
just posting books that I liked on
Instagram and I started a production
company seven or eight years ago that
was trying to create projects more
projects that had roles for women in
them I've always really gravitated
towards female authors and women at the
center of novels
so I started optioning some of them and
turning them into movies and then I just
started sharing all the books that I've
read because I read a lot and I love the
effect that it has on the authors that's
really cool it's really exciting
particularly like we have one author
Delia Owens who's in her 70s and it's
her first fictional novel is called
where the crawdad sing and it's just
because this huge book and she sold over
a million copies and we're turning it
into a movie and it's just one of those
really exciting once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to use that yeah it's very
fulfilling one book that we're adopting
right now is so exciting to me is daisy
jones and the six it sort of feels like
a vh1 behind the music about this girl's
life and how she joins this band and
they create this supergroup and the most
amazing my album of all time but then
it's the only time they they make an
album and it's just that kind of sexy
70s world filled with rock and roll and
it's just a really cool project and I'm
really excited we're doing that
there's a book I love called from
scratch by Tim be lock and it's a
beautiful love story a woman from Texas
goes to Italy and meets this incredible
chef it's a true story they have a kid
they fall in love they get married and
something tragic happens
timbi tells her own story in the most
beautiful words I love that book check
it out book that made me laugh at leiden
probably anything by David Sedaris
I think he's so funny I love Calypso I
love all of Nora Ephron's books
heartburn I feel bad about my neck I
remember nothing particularly as a woman
you know coming of age and learning
about what it means to be a woman who
walks through the world she she tells
stories about motherhood and aging was
such humor and self deprecation I just
think it's it's a must read probably see
the book that I'm desperate to reuse
sequel to is the secret history by Donna
Tartt it's a book I read when I was in
high school and it's about kids in
college and they have this crazy wild
night out and something happens and one
of them dies it's really atmospheric and
you find out the most thrilling plot
twist in the last 10 pages so I always
wondered what happened to those those
kids so maybe Donna knows
well anything by Jon Meacham like or
David McCullough though they're the
foremost historians about American
history and I think if you know can
throw in there that you know you you
heard them on on PBS talking about their
book that's really helpful to so
anything when Jon Meacham anything with
David McCullough anything dealing with
like the Revolutionary War I think
that's that's a good one to call out I
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think I booked I had the biggest impact
on my life was Wilde by Cheryl Strayed
it's the first book that I optioned to
turn into a movie that I was producing
and starring in and I was really nervous
and I asked Cheryl if it would be okay
to option her book but I didn't really
have a track record as a producer but
she took that leap of faith with me and
I'll be forever grateful and I loved
that movie
I loved the themes of women versus
nature and the idea that the end of it
she ends up with no man no money no job
no parents and it's a happy ending
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