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- Hi, I'm Reese and this is my
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Harper's Bazaar cover shoot.
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How the Sunshine Book Club was sort of born
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out of me just posting books that I liked on Instagram.
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I started a production company seven or eight years ago
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that was trying to create projects
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more projects that had roles for women in them.
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I've always really gravitated towards female authors
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and women at the center of novels,
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so I started optioning some of them
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and turning them into movies.
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And then I just starting sharing all the books that I read
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'cause I read a lot.
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And I love the effect that it has on the authors.
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That's really cool.
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It's real exciting.
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Particularly, like, we have one author Delia Owens
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who's in her 70s and it's her first fictional novel.
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It's called Where the Crawdads Sing
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and it's just become this huge book
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and she's sold over a million copies
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and we're turning it into a movie.
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And it's just one of those really exciting,
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once in a lifetime opportunities that, yeah,
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it's very fulfilling.
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One book that we're adapting right now
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is so exciting to me is Daisy Jones and the Six.
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It sort of feels like a VH1 Behind the Music
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about this girl's life and how she joins this band
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and they create this super group
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and the most amazing album of all time,
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but then it's the only time that they make an album.
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And it's just that kinda sexy, 70s world filled
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with rock 'n roll and it's just a really cool project
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and I'm really excited we're doing that.
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There's a book I love called From Scratch by Tembi Locke.
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And it's a beautiful love story.
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A woman from Texas goes to Italy
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and meets this incredible chef.
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It's a true story.
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They have a kid, they fall in love, they get married and
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something tragic happens.
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Tembi tells her own story in the most beautiful words.
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And so, I love that book.
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Check it out.
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The book that made me laugh out loud in public.
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Anything by David Sedaris.
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I think he's so funny.
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I love Calypso.
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I love all of Nora Ephron's books.
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Heartburn, I Feel Bad about my Neck, I Remember Nothing.
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Particularly as a woman, you know, coming of age
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and learning about what it means to be a woman
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who walks through the world.
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She tells stories about motherhood and aging
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with such humor and self-deprecation,
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I just think it's a must read.
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I would probably say the book that I am desperate to read
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a sequel to is The Secret History by Donna Tartt.
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It's a book I read when I was in high school
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and it's about kids in college
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and they have this crazy, wild night out
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and something happens and one of them dies.
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It's really atmospheric and you find out
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the most thrilling plot twist in the last ten pages,
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so I always wondered what happened to those kids,
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so maybe Donna knows.
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Well, anything by Jon Meacham or David McCullough,
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they're the foremost historians about American history
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and I think if you can throw in there,
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you know, you heard them on PBS talking about their book
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that's really helpful, too.
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So, anything by Jon Meacham, anything by David McCullough,
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anything dealing with the Revolutionary War,
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I think that's a good one to call out.
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I think the book that had the biggest impact on my life
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was Wild by Cheryl Strayed.
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It's the first book that I optioned to turn into a movie
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that I was producing and starring in.
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And I was really nervous and I asked Cheryl
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if it would be okay to option her book
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but I didn't really have a track record as a producer,
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but she took that leap of faith with me
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and I'll be forever grateful.
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And I love that movie.
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I love the themes of women versus nature
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and the idea that at the end of it,
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she ends up with no man, no money, no job, no parents
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and it's a happy ending.
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