Paulina Porizkova wants you to know that, yes, she can read. In fact, she’s written a whole essay on the subject for Modelinia.com.
“I feel the need to constantly prove I’m not some dumb model. And yes, I know that having to prove it undermines my efforts. But bear with me. I quit school at 15 to live off of my looks,” she says. “Fortunately, I have been a bookworm ever since I learned how to read.” [Modelinia]
So what does Paulina think you should read this summer? Vikram Seth’s 1,488-page tome about India, A Suitable Boy. And A Soldier of the Great War, which Paulina describes as “880 pages of love, humor, and war.” She also says, “Once read, [these books] can be used to tone biceps or in step class.”
Oh, but there are other options. Here’s what our favorite celebs are reading this summer.
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Lindsay Lohan is currently digging into Phillip Roth’s The Plot Against America. You know, just some light poolside reading. |
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Hilary Duff is loving Salem Falls by Jodi Piccoult while chilling on the set of “Gossip Girl.” |
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Cormac McCarthy, who wrote No Country For Old Men, is a favorite of James Franco‘s. While filming “Eat, Pray, Love,” he read Blood Meridian. |
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The last book Britney Spears was seen with: Zohar, the ancient text of Kabbalah. |
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Sarah Jessica Parker has been carrying The Help by Kathryn Stockett all around town. It’s a novel about black nannies in Civil Rights Movement-era Mississippi. |
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Blake Lively‘s pick? Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan. |
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Angelina Jolie likes her reading heavy and of the non-fiction variety. Hence, she’s unwinding with War of Necessity, War of Choice by Richard Haass. |
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And Then The Roof Caved In is all about how Wall Street greed effed everything up. Shia LaBeouf is enjoying it. |
