Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Daughter of Fortune is one of the books that nobody seems to know why it was included on the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge list.
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Daughter of Fortune is one of the books that nobody seems to know why it was included on the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge list.
Continue readingThis is a goddamn delightful book, almost entirely because of the unique lens through which we see the world.
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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.
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Continue readingCatch-22’s kind of pathos overlaid with comedy made me think of Kirk from Gilmore Girls.
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Continue readingThe Bielski Brothers is an amazing story about three Jewish brothers fighting a guerrilla war against the Nazis.
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.
Continue readingOne thing I did wonder when reading this is what will the world learn from Gilmore Girls thousands of years into the future?
Continue readingI didn’t want to read this book. I had a vague idea of what it was about – harrowing slavery, a woman with a dead baby.
Continue readingI kind of want to live in Stars Hollow, but also I realise that I would probably go insane almost immediately.
Continue readingI feel this book almost directly correlates with Rory’s ‘awakening’ at the hands of bad-boy Jess.
Continue readingI may be wrong, but I believe the entire reason I’m reading The Art of War is because Paris quips that she can deal with aggressive behaviour because “she has read The Art of War”.
Continue readingHaving to wade through this dry examination of a specific period of the Peloponnesian conflict simply because the book APPEARED on Richard Gilmore’s shelf in an episode was super hard.
Continue readingIn a way, Stars Hollow is a claustrophobic and confined space, and the town’s scrutiny is equally as inhibitory to them.
Continue readingRussian literature is a huge, icy black ocean. You hear people tell stories about it, in a casual, offhand way. ‘Oh yeah, I read War and Peace’ and everybody else in the room just shuts up.
Continue readingMore like Theodore Dreiser-bone. That was a witty quip to connote that he’s boring, and not some kind of reference to a rural raincoat.
Continue readingWhy is this book so wonderful? Without dripping rhapsodic or going into the deep dark recesses of cold hard literary deconstruction, let’s just say that the book somehow slips through the layers of razor-wire cynicism I’ve erected around the black hole where my emotions live.
Continue readingOh, the mixed-up, topsy turvy characters you meet in this endless succession of weird situations. How does our intrepid heroine overcome her series of trials? Mostly by virtue of not doing something even worse, such as setting herself on fire.
Continue readingThe harsh, joyless critic who lives inside me put down Huckleberry Finn and thought, ‘more like the NOT-adventures of Huckleberry Finn’
Continue readingIs there any limit to the lessons we can learn from Gilmore Girls? I personally don’t think so.
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