By Faith Zochowski
If you need a quick read that doesn’t require much thinking this fall, Film for Her is perfect for you! Author Orion Carloto is a writer and poet who documents her life through pictures, poems, and short anecdotes. The focus of Carloto’s poem book is to showcase the mundane yet beautiful instances in her life, as she explains in her letter to her readers at the beginning of the book. This project was not only for herself to create a storybook of her life, but is also to urge her readers to “just live.”
The book resembles a scrapbook with pages consisting of photographs taken on a film camera, poems, and pictures of handwritten notes. Carloto writes about love, loss, growing up, and navigating life as a young adult. She also explains being the daughter of immigrants and what her life looked like as a first-generation American. The variety of media within her book keeps the reader’s eye moving – for example, a lengthier story will be followed with a diptych of photographs to give the mind a rest.
As a writer and photographer, I adored this short storybook. It’s perfect for a fall afternoon or a much needed brain break before going to bed.
Get yourself a copy at your local Barnes & Noble or on Amazon.
Happy Fall!
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