The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
This is a goddamn delightful book, almost entirely because of the unique lens through which we see the world.
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In Gilmore Girls, aka the best show ever written, bright-eyed Rory Gilmore is continually seen reading a wide array of books. Whether in preparation for Harvard or for her time at Yale, she is always improving herself via literature. Patrick Lenton decided to take a leaf out of Rory’s books and read Rory’s books.
In Gilmore Girls, aka the best show ever written, bright-eyed Rory Gilmore is continually seen reading a wide array of books. Whether in preparation for Harvard or for her time at Yale, she is always improving herself via literature. Patrick Lenton decided to take a leaf out of Rory’s books and read Rory’s books.
This is a goddamn delightful book, almost entirely because of the unique lens through which we see the world.
Continue readingWhy is everyone vaguely psychic in Stephen King books? And what the hell is it with shitty Tad’s scary closet?
Continue readingLike the Salem ‘witches’, Lane is guilty until proven innocent, and her innocence is impossible to prove.
Continue readingThe entire purpose of the novel seems to be a sort of wink-wink nudge-nudge inverse portrayal of Victorian history.
Continue readingSo, Crime and Punishment: it’s a book about a guy who kinda wants to murder someone, and then he does, and then he freaks out.
Continue readingBalzac’s observations are made in such a way that you can imagine them as the #hottakes they once were.
Continue readingThere’s an unexpected prison friendship, a gaol break and hidden treasure!
Continue readingMy favourite game in the world is to pretend Dean is better than him and watch Jess truthers spin out. We all know that Logan was the best.
Continue readingThere were two stories that gave me brilliant Gilmore Girls epiphanies.
Continue readingAs a confessional poet, Sexton’s writing covers similar ground to that of Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino: mother-daughter relationships, getting pregnant and un-pregnant; you know, girly stuff.
Continue readingRory mentions Powell because she was a prolific writer who fell into relative obscurity, and is often credited with coming up with some of Dorothy Parker’s famous witticisms.
Continue readingThe Comedy of Errors is exactly what you’d expect: a play made funny by the errors and poor intuition of its central characters.
Continue reading“Patrick Lenton and Rory Gilmore can go straight to hell”
Continue readingIt is best to read every sentence as if you are Stephen Fry eating a large sponge cake; jolly good.
Continue readingI remember loving A Clockwork Orange. Now I’ve read it again, it’s still good – deeply unsettling, but obviously well written.
Continue readingIn Christine, a small Gollum-style man gets obsessed with a car that soon ends up supernaturally desirable.
Continue readingThe Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman is widely recognised both as an important work of queer theatre and a melodrama so strained you could drain pasta in it.
Continue readingThe fact that Jess is shown reading books LIKE Catcher in the Rye conspicuously to get Rory’s attention is just … so … teenage boy type.
Continue readingThis is such a pleasant book. Set on a farm in a quaint country town, it perfectly combined my love of Babe and Gilmore Girls and county fairs.
Continue readingThe rejection of the upper classes is perhaps the primary theme of Gilmore Girls, next to the enduring love story that is Lorelei and Rory.
Continue readingCatch-22’s kind of pathos overlaid with comedy made me think of Kirk from Gilmore Girls.
Continue readingCarrie basically follows a kind of Mean Girls meets She’s All That narrative, except there’s a whole bunch of traumatic menstruation-based bullying, and after our protagonist goes through her miraculous prom transformation she destroys the entire town.
Continue readingThe Canterbury Tales are like the Bible. Full of obscure language and stories that you shouldn’t try to follow too closely but the basic morals are okay.
Continue readingFor such a slim volume Candide is crazy exhausting. It contains such relentless misery that I felt like I needed a little lie down every two pages or so.
Continue readingI can see why Rory Gilmore might enjoy Brick Lane, but I think the book might resonate more strongly with her mother, Lorelai.
Continue readingGroup sex and conveyor-belt babies aside, Brave New World kind of socked me in the heart with all its ideas about happiness and the human condition.
Continue readingIt’s easy to imagine the precocious Rory Gilmore reading Mary McCarthy’s essays. McCarthy is perfect for Rory: clever, insightful and not easily swayed.
Continue readingThe Bielski Brothers is an amazing story about three Jewish brothers fighting a guerrilla war against the Nazis.
Continue readingAs a treatise on women who defied norms throughout history, Bitch held a lot of promise. But instead it turned into a whirlwind of half-baked theories, personal anecdotes and wild speculation.
Continue readingIt’s all very violent and there are battles and demons, and when I say it like this, it all sounds cool. But I didn’t understand what was happening.
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