{"id":32200,"date":"2025-07-29T16:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32200\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T16:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:23:09","slug":"actress-embeth-davidtz-shares-her-six-favorite-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32200\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Embeth Davidtz shares her six favorite books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\tPage Six may be compensated and\/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change.<\/p>\n

Veteran actress Embeth Davidtz grew up surrounded by books.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a large part of my childhood, we didn\u2019t have a television; so, listening to the radio and reading books was how I kept myself entertained,\u201d the \u201cMatilda\u201d star tells Page Six.<\/p>\n

Davidtz \u2014 whose directorial and screenwriting debut, \u201cDon\u2019t Let\u2019s Go to the Dogs Tonight,\u201d<\/a> hit theaters July 11 \u2014 adds that as she\u2019s gotten older, she\u2019s \u201cgrown to love memoirs.\u201d<\/p>\n

See below for the \u201cSchindler\u2019s List\u201d actress\u2019 six must-read book recommendations.<\/p>\n

\""Heart<\/p>\n

\u201cA novella, this was one of my set books when I was studying English at university. I am still haunted by it. The writing is dense, but the payoff is enormous. And it stays with you forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\""Walking<\/p>\n

\u201cI always loved Gabriel\u2019s work as an actor, but he is also a brilliant writer. His memoir is an exquisitely written account of his boyhood, and an homage to the beauty of Ireland. There are also some wonderful anecdotes about legendary actors. Like many Irishmen, he is a wonderful storyteller and at times this book is laugh-out-loud funny.\u201d<\/p>\n

\""Don\u2019t<\/p>\n

\u201cThe greatest memoir of an African childhood. Fuller unflinchingly faces the horrors of racism and the tragedies within her family. Despite the sometimes tough subject matter, her writing is incredibly funny and perfectly captures with clear-eyed brilliance the feisty, extraordinary child she once was.\u201d<\/p>\n

\""Too<\/p>\n

\u201cThis collection of short stories is riveting, each one a nugget of gold. The end of each of Munro\u2019s short stories is a major gut punch. Her stories always surprise with a last unexpected twist and her prose is spare and razor sharp.\u201d<\/p>\n

\""The<\/p>\n

\u201cI read this book years ago and sometimes return to it to reread passages that have stuck with me. An epic and devastating story and so beautifully written.\u201d<\/p>\n

\""Running<\/p>\n

\u201cThis memoir is a ravishing account of his childhood in Sri Lanka. You can literally smell the fragrances and see the colors of Ceylon. He weaves together family stories of dysfunction with gentle humor and sadness. A love letter to family and place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Page Six may be compensated and\/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75,337,404,24711,11662],"class_list":{"0":"post-32200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-shopping","14":"tag-six-picks","15":"tag-style"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}