Sarah Jessica Parker On Her Role As Booker Prize Judge: ‘Reading Morning Till Night'
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Sarah Jessica Parker can now add another skill to her resume—speed reading. As one of the judges for the 2025 Booker Prize, she prepared by reading extensively.
And Just Like That, star Sarah Jessica Parker is currently reading up to two books a day as part of her role as a Booker Prize judge this year. The actress revealed her daily reading routine and love for books, calling them 'the greatest possible friends you could have." Sarah Jessica Parker can now add another skill to her resume- speed reading. As one of the judges for the 2025 Booker Prize, she prepared by reading extensively. The Booker Prize is a prestigious British literary award presented annually to the best novel written in English. The five-person judging panel includes authors, journalists, musicians, actors, and politicians.
Sarah Jessica Parker, 60, who also runs her book imprint called SJP for Hogarth, described it as an 'honour" and a 'privilege" to serve as a judge for this esteemed award but admitted that the workload will be demanding.
She also said that she's able to read a lot because recently her schedule is not so packed. She said, 'I didn't do it last year because I knew I was shooting and doing the series ['And Just Like That…"], and I knew this year I had a different kind of time available to me, to read morning till night." Adding 'Any opportunity that exists to read, I'm reading."
For Parker, this isn't a new habit she's recently developed. The Hocus Pocus star has been a book lover since childhood. Her passion for incorporating books into daily life was nurtured by her mother, a love she has now passed on to her three children.
She said, 'We always had a ton of books around the house, and we were regular visitors to the library." Adding, 'We were not allowed to leave the house without a book in our hands, even when we were toddlers and couldn't read."
'She read to us constantly," Parker continued, 'so I did the same for my children, and they came to the same conclusion, which is, books are the greatest possible friends you could have."
A group of celebrated authors, including Jodi Picoult, Robert Caro, Judy Blume, Michael Cunningham and Dinaw Mengestu, were also present at the event to honour Parker.
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