Hey all,
I’m 23, wrapping up film school, and lately I’ve found myself in a bit of a reading rut. For the past couple of years, my bookshelf has been filled with books about film—directing, screenwriting, cinematic theory, etc.—and while I’ve learned a ton, I miss that feeling of being swept up in a story or idea that isn’t about my craft.
I’m looking for books that will help me fall back in love with the world a little—something that boosts my creativity, stirs up some sense of adventure, or just makes me feel more alive. I’m open to both fiction and nonfiction.
by dcondon123
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Jorge Luis Borges – Ficciones
It’s a postmodern short story collection, with stories that are often very meta and conceptual. If you’re interested in theory about writing, this could definitely be something for you.
The name of the wind by Patrick rothfus is a fiction story but it does a really good job of world building and having the sense that there’s more out there, there’s secrets, there’s things you may never really know or get into.
Bonus about this book: there is a YouTube channel called Cinema therapy which is one of my favorite YouTube channels and it is by a filmmaker and a therapist and they look at a movie and they talk about it both from a filmmaker perspective and a therapy perspective. The filmmaker, alan, did a commercial or something once and he did it behind his bookshelf so you were able to see the books that he had. I was able to spot a couple of titles like save the cat, but he also had this book on his bookshelf. So I thought it was pretty neat that a fiction book, this guy a filmmaker, he liked it too.