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📺100+ Books to Read if Season 2 of Gilmore Girls Made You Team Jess · Friday Night Readers: Gilmore Girls Inspired Book Club

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SPEAKER_00: I feel like I've been waiting forever to say that.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm recording on October 1st.
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SPEAKER_00: And that is something that you say on the first day of the month for good luck.
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SPEAKER_00: So what better time to wish us luck than the heart of fall ever.
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SPEAKER_00: As Gilmore Girls fans.
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SPEAKER_00: Today is also the day that East of Eden releases on Netflix.
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SPEAKER_00: And this was actually my favorite high school required read.
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SPEAKER_00: It is a chunker, but it's super dramatic.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you, you will fly right through it.
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SPEAKER_00: And as far as Gilmore Girls goes,
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SPEAKER_00: it is not on the list,
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SPEAKER_00: but I do think that it is one book that all three Gilmore Girls would read.
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SPEAKER_00: All three of them did refer to John Steinbeck on the show.
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SPEAKER_00: I think Rory would love that it's a classic.
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SPEAKER_00: I think Lorelai would love how dramatic it is
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SPEAKER_00: because it really does have these soap opera vibes.
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SPEAKER_00: And then I think Emily would be reading it for book club.
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SPEAKER_00: Her reading is really driven by book clubs.
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SPEAKER_00: And I definitely think she would be in a Nantucket book club right now
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SPEAKER_00: that would want to read it and watch the adaptation.
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SPEAKER_00: Because it's like what everyone's talking about at the moment.
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SPEAKER_00: That's all very much Emily.
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SPEAKER_00: We've also got the Verity adaptation coming out this weekend.
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SPEAKER_00: This was a Colleen Hoover thriller that is super dark and disturbing
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SPEAKER_00: and I did read it over the course of one flight.
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SPEAKER_00: I was on my honeymoon to Italy and it is absolutely bonkers.
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SPEAKER_00: I think if you liked the House I'm more of a watch-at-home kind of person,
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SPEAKER_00: so I'll probably wait until it is streaming.
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SPEAKER_00: But I did talk to a friend who got an early screening
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SPEAKER_00: and she said it was really good and definitely as disturbing as the book.
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SPEAKER_00: Besides that, we have got a fall festival here this weekend in my town.
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SPEAKER_00: My town is not totally like Stars Hollow,
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SPEAKER_00: but it is definitely small town vibes in a big city,
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SPEAKER_00: which is Philadelphia, and everything is very walkable.
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SPEAKER_00: So we'll walk to all the restaurants,
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SPEAKER_00: we'll walk to the coffee shops,
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SPEAKER_00: I can even walk to the library, the post office, Trader Joe's, all of that.
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SPEAKER_00: At the same time,
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SPEAKER_00: it's not the kind of place where everyone is in everyone else's business,
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SPEAKER_00: and it is a little bit more traffic-y than you would expect
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SPEAKER_00: a small town like Stars Hollow to be.
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SPEAKER_00: So before we get into this month's reading challenge,
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SPEAKER_00: I want to briefly touch upon September's reading challenge,
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SPEAKER_00: which was Book's That Lorelei read.
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SPEAKER_00: I actually think this was one of the best challenges we've ever had in six years
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SPEAKER_00: of running this challenge now.
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SPEAKER_00: And here's why.
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SPEAKER_00: I think that Lorelei's reading list is super diverse.
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SPEAKER_00: She reads the classics.
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SPEAKER_00: She also reads a lot of memoirs.
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SPEAKER_00: Reads really buzzy titles.
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SPEAKER_00: And I think she is really what the every reader is.
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SPEAKER_00: I even created this interactive quiz last month designed to help you figure out
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SPEAKER_00: which Gilmore Girl you are based on books.
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SPEAKER_00: It's both for fun and to help you get some book recommendations that really match you.
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SPEAKER_00: And to my surprise, most readers were not Rory's.
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SPEAKER_00: They were Lorelei's.
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SPEAKER_00: So I'm loving that challenge.
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SPEAKER_00: And if you didn't get to do it,
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SPEAKER_00: I hope you'll still go back and take a look at Lorelei's list,
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SPEAKER_00: whether it's now or at some time in the future, you can bookmark it.
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SPEAKER_00: This is definitely something I want to explore more as we continue into this challenge.
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SPEAKER_00: Speaking of continuing into this challenge, let's get into October's prompt.
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SPEAKER_00: It is season two books from Gilmore Girls.
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SPEAKER_00: And to me, these books scream Team Jess.
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SPEAKER_00: Of course, this is when he arrives The list is actually over 100 books for you to choose from.
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SPEAKER_00: If you're wondering why I chose
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much.
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SPEAKER_00: A book with one of your favorite season two episodes.
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SPEAKER_00: Our featured book of the month is going to be Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
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SPEAKER_00: This is a book I talk about all the time.
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SPEAKER_00: It is one of my favorite classics, just like East of Eden.
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SPEAKER_00: I read it last year for the challenge.
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SPEAKER_00: I thought it was extraordinary.
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SPEAKER_00: It's extremely beautiful,
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SPEAKER_00: not that hard,
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SPEAKER_00: and has so much to say about man going too far in science and ambition,
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SPEAKER_00: which is oh so timely.
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SPEAKER_00: It's also dark academia.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a very autumnal thriller.
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SPEAKER_00: And of course, we do love seasonal reading around here.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's just one of those books that you really want to be reading by the fireplace
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SPEAKER_00: on a blustery night with some moody music.
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SPEAKER_00: So what I'm going to be doing for this book is something I plan to do a lot more of
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SPEAKER_00: in the future.
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SPEAKER_00: It's built a cozy night in around reading this book.
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SPEAKER_00: I really wanted to develop a signature interview series to do on my Substack,
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SPEAKER_00: and I thought about doing either books that shaped people or this idea of building
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SPEAKER_00: a cozy night in around a book.
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SPEAKER_00: I couldn't decide myself, so I took the question to paid subscribers and they all...
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SPEAKER_00: They unanimously voted for Cozy Nights In.
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SPEAKER_00: So expect a lot more lifestyle around here.
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SPEAKER_00: We'll be talking about what to eat and drink with Frankenstein,
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SPEAKER_00: some extra content you can read that I thought was really insightful about the book,
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SPEAKER_00: how to set the mood, and all of that.
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SPEAKER_00: I know I've said it in the past, but don't let this happen.
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SPEAKER_00: Did this book scare you other than the fact that it is about a monster?
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SPEAKER_00: What I mean is the fact that it's an old classic and that it's science fiction.
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SPEAKER_00: I actually found it to be pretty easy to read,
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SPEAKER_00: particularly with the illustrated and interactive edition that I linked in
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SPEAKER_00: the show notes, which is the one that I read.
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SPEAKER_00: And then I also occasionally followed along with an audiobook to set the mood as well.
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SPEAKER_00: So that feature will be coming next week.
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SPEAKER_00: And of course,
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SPEAKER_00: since it's October,
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SPEAKER_00: I hope that this is the time that you decide to pick this one up and read it
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SPEAKER_00: with us.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, if you already read it,
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SPEAKER_00: or if you don't want to read Frankenstein, Here I wanted to do something different.
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SPEAKER_00: I wanted to focus on books that
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SPEAKER_00: So let's get started.
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SPEAKER_00: I actually just did this myself.
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SPEAKER_00: Now let's get back to the books that were referenced in Gilmore Girls.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm going to go in the order they appeared on the show.
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SPEAKER_00: First is season two, episode four, The Road Trip to Harvard.
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SPEAKER_00: And the most iconic books here,
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SPEAKER_00: I can already picture the scene in my head is Rory and Lorelai looking at
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SPEAKER_00: the Harvard library and Rory freaking out that she's only She only read 300 books by
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SPEAKER_00: the time she was 16 and Lorelai tells her that she can skip Tuesdays with Maury
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SPEAKER_00: by Mitch Albom and Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact,
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SPEAKER_00: I did link some of these book covers in a little Substack note and said
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SPEAKER_00: which one is most iconic to you.
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SPEAKER_00: Tuesdays with Maury
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SPEAKER_00: This story is a memoir, maybe one of the most famous memoirs of all time.
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SPEAKER_00: It's very short and sweet.
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SPEAKER_00: And at the time it came out, it was all over bookstores.
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SPEAKER_00: If you remember Borders, I remember seeing it there on the front table all the time.
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SPEAKER_00: It's about a man learning lessons from a teacher who is dying during these Tuesday meetings.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's sort of also self-help and it definitely catapulted this author to fame.
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SPEAKER_00: Personally, I liked it, but I didn't love it.
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SPEAKER_00: For me, other memoirs on this topic have been a bit more impactful.
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SPEAKER_00: One that I really loved was actually the first audiobook I ever listened to
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SPEAKER_00: and it's called When Breath Becomes Air and it's about a doctor who is dying
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SPEAKER_00: of cancer.
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SPEAKER_00: His being in science as well as how philosophical he is brought new dimensions to
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SPEAKER_00: the topic of death and dying and grief.
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SPEAKER_00: All that said it's definitely iconic and again it is pretty short if you want to read it.
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SPEAKER_00: It would also probably be one that is really easy to listen to.
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SPEAKER_00: Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson.
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SPEAKER_00: That is another self-help book and it is also very short and sweet.
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SPEAKER_00: Another icon.
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SPEAKER_00: I believe this book has sold millions of copies,
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SPEAKER_00: but at the same time you can probably read it in about an hour.
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SPEAKER_00: This is something that I have to remind myself of.
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SPEAKER_00: I did earlier in my writing career have a lot of success in one specific
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SPEAKER_00: But AI and algorithm changes pretty much destroyed all of that for our entire industry.
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SPEAKER_00: From the thousands of us who made livings this way for many years,
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SPEAKER_00: and for many of us,
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SPEAKER_00: quite good livings,
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SPEAKER_00: and having teams of writers and people who worked on our websites with us,
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SPEAKER_00: I had to find new ways to make this possible.
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SPEAKER_00: For me, I moved over to Substack and focused on just my book club.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm diversifying it,
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SPEAKER_00: not just with ad revenue,
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SPEAKER_00: which I used to get,
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SPEAKER_00: but also affiliate sales and paid subscribers and brand partnerships,
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SPEAKER_00: and even writing my book that I recently self published,
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SPEAKER_00: which was the unofficial guide to the books on Gilmore Girls.
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SPEAKER_00: So even though Lorelai thinks that Rory
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SPEAKER_00: Lorelei got this one wrong.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't want to go on too many tangents here
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SPEAKER_00: but I definitely think Rory would be experiencing some of the things
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SPEAKER_00: that I experienced in my writing career as a writer herself.
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SPEAKER_00: I think these are lessons that she would need to learn.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's another easy one for you too if you want something that is self-help
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SPEAKER_00: and quick and easy and nonfiction but does teach you a lesson.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, also not being the kind of self-help that is kind of toxic
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SPEAKER_00: and promises you something that you may never know.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so that is season two, episode four.
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SPEAKER_00: In the very next episode,
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SPEAKER_00: which is number five,
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SPEAKER_00: Nick and Nora,
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SPEAKER_00: Sid and Nancy, this is the pivotal moment when Jess Mariano arrives in Stars Hollow.
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SPEAKER_00: He and Rory All right, first Bond over the book Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the book he quotes borrows from Rory and writes in the margins of.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm kind of surprised that Rory had this one.
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SPEAKER_00: But again, they have to make the connection between her and Jess.
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SPEAKER_00: And this one is very much a Jess book.
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SPEAKER_00: Allen Ginsberg.
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SPEAKER_00: Ginsburg was in The Beat Generation, and this is very nonconformist poetry.
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SPEAKER_00: It's also a banned book,
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SPEAKER_00: and it is on the banned books poster that is in Rory and Paris' apartment
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SPEAKER_00: a few seasons later.
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SPEAKER_00: So maybe this is how this book is relevant to Rory as well,
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SPEAKER_00: because she would really be into banned books as an avid reader.
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SPEAKER_00: Another super short and easy one.
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SPEAKER_00: I read it in less than an hour.
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SPEAKER_00: I think I even read it twice.
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SPEAKER_00: It was so short.
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SPEAKER_00: And of course poetry,
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SPEAKER_00: you do want to read a few times to take in and analyze the meaning
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SPEAKER_00: of what you're reading on the pages.
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SPEAKER_00: I actually also love this episode and the scene in which Jess gives the book back
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SPEAKER_00: to Rory as one of my favorite vault episodes of Gilmore Girls.
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SPEAKER_00: There's something about that moment where she's in the town square with him
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SPEAKER_00: and it's dark but you can see the twinkly lights and the multicolored leaves in
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SPEAKER_00: the background and you can almost feel the brisk air.
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SPEAKER_00: So anyway,
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SPEAKER_00: when he gives the book back to her,
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SPEAKER_00: and she says those famous lines, well, I thought you didn't read much.
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SPEAKER_00: And he says, what is much?
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SPEAKER_00: She comments on the notes he made on the margin, and he said he's read it about 40 times.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you are Team Jess, this is This is probably the ultimate Jess book to read.
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SPEAKER_00: And then you may not have even realized that when Rory retaliates to him,
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SPEAKER_00: she's also making a book reference.
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SPEAKER_00: This is really what solidifies that Jess is someone to watch in the episodes to come.
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SPEAKER_00: She calls him Dodger and Dodger Dodger is a thief in the classic Oliver Twist
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SPEAKER_00: by Charles Dickens.
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SPEAKER_00: It's so smart and telling not just that Rory knows who Dodger is,
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SPEAKER_00: but that she knows that Jess will know who Dodger is too.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you,
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SPEAKER_00: if Dean was standing there,
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SPEAKER_00: he should have been shaking in his boots More than he was than
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SPEAKER_00: when Rory was practicing Romeo and Juliet with Tristan.
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SPEAKER_00: There's no denying a connection after this scene.
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SPEAKER_00: Speaking of that scene with Tristan,
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SPEAKER_00: the next episode on our list to talk about is in fact episode nine,
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SPEAKER_00: Runaway Little Boy and Romeo and Juliet.
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SPEAKER_00: I find this whole reenactment to be so iconic.
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SPEAKER_00: It's classic Shakespeare, which is perfectly fitting, first of all.
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SPEAKER_00: But then we also get a little bit of a love triangle with Dean and Tristan
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SPEAKER_00: and really also Paris Rory and Tristan.
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SPEAKER_00: So lots of romantic and high school drama.
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SPEAKER_00: We also see how the different classes,
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SPEAKER_00: and I mean social classes,
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SPEAKER_00: in Rory's two different worlds interact together,
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SPEAKER_00: her Star's Hollow world and her Hartford world.
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SPEAKER_00: And then,
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SPEAKER_00: let's be honest,
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SPEAKER_00: we get the kind of humor that is so quirky and tongue in cheek and such a staple
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SPEAKER_00: The Bracebridge Dinner.
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SPEAKER_00: This is another episode where everything that happens can only happen on Gilmore Girls.
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SPEAKER_00: It's quirky to the nth degree and in that way hilarious.
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SPEAKER_00: It brings everyone to the table literally from all of the Gilmore Girls worlds
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SPEAKER_00: and it's incredibly seasonal.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe thinking, but what book on this episode is so iconic?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, fun fact,
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SPEAKER_00: did you know that the Bracebridge Dinner is inspired by Christmas celebrations at
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SPEAKER_00: the Bracebridge Hall in a collection called The Sketchbook of Jeffrey Crayon
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SPEAKER_00: by Washington Irving.
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SPEAKER_00: I actually only recently learned this,
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SPEAKER_00: I think last year,
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SPEAKER_00: when I was compiling a Braced Bridge Dinner post,
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SPEAKER_00: and that was one of the later additions to my book,
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SPEAKER_00: The Unofficial Guide to the Books on Gilmore Girls,
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SPEAKER_00: where I go episode by episode with my curation of 475 plus books I found on
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SPEAKER_00: the show, which I think is bigger and better than any I've seen on the internet.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm pretty sure I've got more than a hundred you won't find elsewhere, including this one.
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SPEAKER_00: So all of that said,
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SPEAKER_00: I think this year is the year that I am going to read this book in December.
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SPEAKER_00: If you want to get a head start, then pick it up now.
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SPEAKER_00: My understanding is that there are something like 30 essays in it,
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SPEAKER_00: or at least many essays, but there's only five that are about Christmas.
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SPEAKER_00: So I will be reading those five and I heard that they do go together.
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SPEAKER_00: So this one's for the people who aren't really into Halloween and really want it
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SPEAKER_00: to be Christmas right now.
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SPEAKER_00: Next up is from episode 13,
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SPEAKER_00: A Tisket, A Tasket, another iconic Stars Hollow event, the Picnic Basque auction.
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SPEAKER_00: And here is where Rory recommends The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand to Jess.
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SPEAKER_00: This is a classic book and it is about a non-conventional architect.
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SPEAKER_00: I really don't know much about this one.
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SPEAKER_00: I do have a copy of it, which I got at a library sale, but honestly, it kind of intimidates me.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe I'll try the film adaptation,
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SPEAKER_00: which is old, it's from 1949, to kind of see how I feel about it.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know, to me it just seems like it would be kind of dry.
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SPEAKER_00: This is a book that promotes individualism and rejects government regulation,
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SPEAKER_00: so I can definitely see why Rory is recommending this one to Jess.
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SPEAKER_00: But I will say, do I believe that she read it at age 10?
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SPEAKER_00: No, I do not.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe that's a hot take,
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SPEAKER_00: but I think they're really pushing things here,
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SPEAKER_00: with Rory being such an elite reader.
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SPEAKER_00: We can have her reading Charlotte's Web at age 10.
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SPEAKER_00: It's okay.
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SPEAKER_00: She would still be gifted and ahead of her years, especially when it comes to literature.
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SPEAKER_00: But on what planet is she reading such philosophy at age 10?
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SPEAKER_00: I was really just getting into the American Girl books at that age,
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SPEAKER_00: and I was an incredibly avid reader.
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SPEAKER_00: It's also over 700 pages.
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SPEAKER_00: All right, enough ragging on Rory, or the writer, should I say.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's move along to episode 15, Lost and Found.
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SPEAKER_00: It really feels like we're working through the season through books, doesn't it?
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SPEAKER_00: So this is when Jess looks for Franchise.
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SPEAKER_00: Granny and Zoe,
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SPEAKER_00: a short story collection in Rory's room when her bracelet
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SPEAKER_00: from Dean is mysteriously lost.
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SPEAKER_00: G.D. Salinger is the author of Catcher in the Rye,
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SPEAKER_00: and Catcher in the Rye stars Holden,
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SPEAKER_00: which Rory calls Jess, I believe, one or two episodes earlier.
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SPEAKER_00: Franny and Zoe is another short and sweet one.
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SPEAKER_00: It's two stories.
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SPEAKER_00: One is Franny and one is Zoe.
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SPEAKER_00: Overall,
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SPEAKER_00: I'd say it was a mediocre read for me,
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SPEAKER_00: though I do know that when I posted about season two on Substack,
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SPEAKER_00: Cully, who is Overbooked Mama, said that this is one of her favorite reads.
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SPEAKER_00: And she's been a longtime follower of Friday Night Readers.
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SPEAKER_00: So do I think it's worth it?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I do think it's worth it.
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SPEAKER_00: Especially if you like Catcher in the Rye.
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SPEAKER_00: I think it's one of those books that makes you sound well read because
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SPEAKER_00: so many people have read Catcher in the Rye and so many people know Salinger,
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SPEAKER_00: but only the best of the best readers would have also read Franny and Zoe.
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SPEAKER_00: I love that you can just read this in a weekend, maybe Franny one day and Zoe the next.
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SPEAKER_00: And then you can also pair it with the episode Lost and Found.
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SPEAKER_00: Another great one for the Team Jess folks out there.
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SPEAKER_00: All right, we're working our way to the end.
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SPEAKER_00: Episode 17, Dead Uncles and Vegetables.
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SPEAKER_00: I wanted to include...
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SPEAKER_00: This is another one that is very Stars Hollow.
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SPEAKER_00: We've got the Revolutionary War reenactors,
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SPEAKER_00: and we've also got a really sad but sweet story about Luke's family and how
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SPEAKER_00: the town rallies around him.
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SPEAKER_00: It's all very much what Gilmore Girls stands for.
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SPEAKER_00: So the Revolutionary War Reenactors actually inspired the read that I picked
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SPEAKER_00: for you, which is Paul Revere's Ride, a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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SPEAKER_00: I recall reading this so many times during school.
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SPEAKER_00: I read it again recently for our challenge just to bring it top of mind again.
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SPEAKER_00: Talk about short, you can read it in just a few minutes.
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SPEAKER_00: And with poems like these,
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SPEAKER_00: sometimes what I do is I will go on YouTube and listen to someone read it
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SPEAKER_00: while I'm doing something like going through my email.
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SPEAKER_00: Last but not least,
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SPEAKER_00: we're getting to one of the most pivotal moments of the show and the book that was
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SPEAKER_00: a part of it.
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SPEAKER_00: Episode 19, Teach Me Tonight.
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SPEAKER_00: This is when Rory agrees to tutor Jess and She says that she will read Othello
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SPEAKER_00: by William Shakespeare to him.
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SPEAKER_00: This is a tragedy about jealousy and she refers to it in relation to Jess later in the show.
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SPEAKER_00: It's during the episode where she and Lane are at the hockey game and she's talking
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SPEAKER_00: about jealousy.
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SPEAKER_00: So we Gilmore Girls fans all know what happens next.
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SPEAKER_00: Rory and Jess famously leave their study session for ice cream and get into a car accident.
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SPEAKER_00: Luckily,
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SPEAKER_00: Rory is only left with a broken arm,
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SPEAKER_00: but this pivotal moment sets the ending of the season into motion and
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SPEAKER_00: of course changes everything in Stars Hollow, particularly as it pertains to Jess.
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SPEAKER_00: I hope this little literary journey through season two
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SPEAKER_00: of I hope Gilmore Girls was fun for you and that you found a book to read with us.
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SPEAKER_00: If you want even more books from season two to choose from,
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SPEAKER_00: you can go to the blog post that is linked in the show notes
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SPEAKER_00: where I list all 108 books from Gilmore Girls season two for paid subscribers.
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SPEAKER_00: Paid subscribers also get a 15 page index of the 475 plus books I found
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SPEAKER_00: on Gilmore Girls over several years of rewatches with the episodes listed after
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SPEAKER_00: the books.
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SPEAKER_00: In the blog post, I also go through the list and review the books I read for you, giving them
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SPEAKER_00: I also mark green the ones that I thought were easy to read just because I know
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SPEAKER_00: that I personally feel better when I have some easy options to choose from.
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SPEAKER_00: It just makes it so much more likely that I'm going to complete the task.
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SPEAKER_00: The way I look at subscriptions is that it helps you commit more deeply
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SPEAKER_00: to our reading challenge,
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SPEAKER_00: gives you a safe virtual space to engage,
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SPEAKER_00: and it supports my human work and my mission behind it,
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SPEAKER_00: which is to inspire reading the most culturally iconic books of all time.
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SPEAKER_00: And then if you want to take it even
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SPEAKER_00: And one more step further,
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SPEAKER_00: you can also head to the show notes and purchase my unofficial guide to the books
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SPEAKER_00: on Gilmore Girls.
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SPEAKER_00: This is a 200 page paperback book,
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SPEAKER_00: which gives you a full page on every episode,
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SPEAKER_00: summaries of the episode,
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SPEAKER_00: what season it's from, more details about the book references.
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SPEAKER_00: And where you can find them.
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SPEAKER_00: And then there's a reading journal in the back, which is pretty fun.
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SPEAKER_00: There's some coloring pages and then there's book reviews
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SPEAKER_00: where you can do little coffee cups to rate the books.
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SPEAKER_00: You can make lists of the ones you want to read.
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SPEAKER_00: You can mark what adaptations you watched versus the book.
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SPEAKER_00: That is also in the show notes for you.
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SPEAKER_00: And I hope that as we settle into this central month of fall,
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SPEAKER_00: and as you settle into your season two rewatches,
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SPEAKER_00: that you'll pick at least one book to read with your rewatch.
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SPEAKER_00: The easiest one of all will be Paul Revere's Ride.
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SPEAKER_00: It's just a poem and it goes with Dead Uncles and Vegetables.
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SPEAKER_00: Or maybe you want to go totally Team Jess and pick up Howell.
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SPEAKER_00: Either way,
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SPEAKER_00: the point is to have more fun and to feel the moment of the season as we read
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SPEAKER_00: the most meaningful books of all time.
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SPEAKER_00: After all, as F.
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SPEAKER_00: Scott Fitzgerald says, life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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SPEAKER_00: See you next time.