Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
October 31, 2016
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.
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This is a goddamn delightful book, almost entirely because of the unique lens through which we see the world.
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Why is everyone vaguely psychic in Stephen King books? And what the hell is it with shitty Tad’s scary closet?
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Like the Salem ‘witches’, Lane is guilty until proven innocent, and her innocence is impossible to prove.
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The entire purpose of the novel seems to be a sort of wink-wink nudge-nudge inverse portrayal of Victorian history.
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Balzac’s observations are made in such a way that you can imagine them as the #hottakes they once were.
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There’s an unexpected prison friendship, a gaol break and hidden treasure!
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My 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.
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There were two stories that gave me brilliant Gilmore Girls epiphanies.
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As 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.
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The Comedy of Errors is exactly what you’d expect: a play made funny by the errors and poor intuition of its central characters.
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“Patrick Lenton and Rory Gilmore can go straight to hell”
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It is best to read every sentence as if you are Stephen Fry eating a large sponge cake; jolly good.
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I 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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The fact that Jess is shown reading books LIKE Catcher in the Rye conspicuously to get Rory’s attention is just … so … teenage boy type.
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Catch-22’s kind of pathos overlaid with comedy made me think of Kirk from Gilmore Girls.
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Carrie 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.
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For 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.
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I can see why Rory Gilmore might enjoy Brick Lane, but I think the book might resonate more strongly with her mother, Lorelai.
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Group 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.
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It’s easy to imagine the precocious Rory Gilmore reading Mary McCarthy’s essays. McCarthy is perfect for Rory: clever, insightful and not easily swayed.
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The Bielski Brothers is an amazing story about three Jewish brothers fighting a guerrilla war against the Nazis.
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As 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.
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It’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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One thing I did wonder when reading this is what will the world learn from Gilmore Girls thousands of years into the future?
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I 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.
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In a way, you might say The Bell Jar is Rory and Lorelai’s detective fiction and muscle cars.
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I kind of want to live in Stars Hollow, but also I realise that I would probably go insane almost immediately.
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Now, I have to admit, when it comes to the Dean/Jess debate, I’m on team Jess.
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Faludi examines gender roles and the idea that, because there are women who feel disappointed or disheartened by feminism, and because there are those who claim that it has no relevance today (certain media outlets and politicians for example), shows that we still need feminism.
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