What keeps Mira reading and dreaming? Books of philosophy and hope give this actress the kick she's looking for!
I love books. I get on these kicks and gobble up whatever I can on a subject. I've been reading geisha books recently: Arthur Golden's novel, Memoirs of a Geisha; then Geisha, A Life, by Mineko Iwasaki—who was a geisha (coauthored by Rande Brown). Finally Geisha, an anthropological study by Liza Crihfield Dalby, a Caucasian American who had studied, as part of her dissertation, to be a geisha in Kyoto in the seventies.
I think I get on these jags because I miss being a student. My friends and I give one another books that we've loved, and we talk about them. I've noticed that, even if we're excited with a book, each of us has had a very private, almost untranslatable experience with it. I love getting lost in a story and dreaming about its images days after finishing it. Reading and dreaming are essential to my life.
What's on Mira Sorvino's Bookshelf? Read more!
I think I get on these jags because I miss being a student. My friends and I give one another books that we've loved, and we talk about them. I've noticed that, even if we're excited with a book, each of us has had a very private, almost untranslatable experience with it. I love getting lost in a story and dreaming about its images days after finishing it. Reading and dreaming are essential to my life.
What's on Mira Sorvino's Bookshelf? Read more!
From the March 2003 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
