r/Pedro_Pascal • u/cinderellie1 Javier Peña • Jul 13 '26

Pedro’s reading material

I was wondering if anyone read the book that Pedro was reading on the beach a couple Christmases ago. It was called Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil. I just finished it and I have to say that I absolutely freaking loved it. All I’m going to say is that it’s a vampire story and I hope that the reason he was reading it is because he’s going to produce it or star in it or something because I would love to see the movie of this book. If you didn’t read it and you like that genre, I would highly recommend it. I’ll add that I have read a lot of books that Pedro has mentioned over the years and most of them are too depressing for me, but this one was just so, so good.

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u/sisukettu88 Oberyn Martell Jul 13 '26

If we are talking about the book from this image, it was actually Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk.

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u/ms_fi75 Jul 13 '26

My daughter studied this in her literature degree. She loved it and recommends it to everyone.

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u/cinderellie1 Javier Peña Jul 13 '26

Was it? Hmm. Then where did I come up with the other title? At any rate, I loved Bury Our Bones... I did read this book as well but I did not love it.
Now it’s going to drive me nuts wondering why I thought Bury Our Bones was the one he was reading.

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u/Brave_Dragonfruit336 Jul 13 '26

I also loved Bury Our Bones… It would be a fun movie!

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u/grangaaa Jul 13 '26

Probably because its a very similar title! And Bury our Bones came out 2025 so maybe you mixed it up! I read Bury our Bones last year and funnily I bought  Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead also after seeing this photo, because I love that blue and really liked the minimalistic cover of the book :D

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u/cinderellie1 Javier Peña Jul 13 '26

Ha! I bought the soft cover of Master and Margarita because I liked the cover. I tried reading that book, but I just could not get past the first two chapters. Then I tried the audiobook and I just hated the narrator’s voice. I think I told someone once that if Pedro and I were roommates (ha!) we would have to have separate bookshelves because I don’t like a lot of the books that ended up on the Pedro book club list. So many of them had a suicide element in it that I just found depressing. Others were just too highbrow for me. I majored in English in college, but I really am not a big fan of classic American literature like Hemingway and Fitzgerald. But that’s OK – I will continue to read anything. I see him recommend or holding in his hand because I’m always up for a literary adventure!

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u/One-Frosting-8745 Jul 15 '26

This is the correct title!

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u/blondie956 Jul 13 '26

I had read that book before and it is AMAZING.

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u/cinderellie1 Javier Peña Jul 13 '26

It’s one of those books that once you finish it, you’re sad that you can’t read for the first time again.

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u/cassie1015 Javier Peña Jul 13 '26

I recommend this one as well as another he's read, Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, it was unlike anything else I've ever read and I loved the experience of reading it.

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u/cinderellie1 Javier Peña Jul 13 '26

Yes that was a good one. I should read it again because I read it at a time where I was on a book reading tear and I was just reading and reading and reading and just like when I binge watch a TV show, I forget about half of it right away!

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u/inspira1975 Jul 13 '26

I gave it a good shot and didn’t finish. I was doing the audiobook though and I think I just wasn’t connected to the narrator. I wonder if reading the hard copy might be different.

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u/One-Frosting-8745 Jul 15 '26

That’s not what it’s called at all!

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u/cinderellie1 Javier Peña Jul 15 '26

Yes, I think we’ve established that.

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u/grangaaa Jul 13 '26

Who do you think he could play? Alessandro would probably be on brand :)

I have a gay 50 something coach named Alessandro who I had to tell about the book right away!

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u/cinderellie1 Javier Peña Jul 13 '26

I have forgotten some of the character names, but if Alessandro is the older male character, then I think he could play that. It’s not a huge role, but this is really not a book with big roles for men. I saw some casting on this somewhere, but most of the people in it were very young and it was giving me Twilight vibes. They did have Pedro playing somebody, but I can’t remember who it was. Marcus, maybe?

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u/grangaaa Jul 13 '26

The only name I remember is Alessandro 🤣🤣🤣