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📚Want to Read More? Start With These 200+ Short Books. · Friday Night Readers: Gilmore Girls Inspired Book Club

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SPEAKER_00: welcome to friday night readers i'm your host jules a real life rory gilmore built
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SPEAKER_00: by coffee i help you read live and write like a gilmore in our little corner of
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SPEAKER_00: the world step into a virtual stars hollow in a world of books just like worry
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SPEAKER_00: before we dive in don't forget to subscribe
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SPEAKER_00: on gilmore girls plus even more gilmore girls inspired content like our rory gilbert
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SPEAKER_00: reading challenge which we've been doing together
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SPEAKER_00: since 2021 paid members get exclusive extras like the list of books from
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SPEAKER_00: the show whip episodes which i've personally verified over several years
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SPEAKER_00: of rewatches and wrote about in my book the unofficial guide to the books
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SPEAKER_00: on gilmore girls
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SPEAKER_00: hello friday night readers
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SPEAKER_00: happy summer we are in the heart of summer
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SPEAKER_00: and i feel like this is what we waited for i think back to all the winter posts
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SPEAKER_00: that i made that feel like just yesterday and it's all these dark scenes and death
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SPEAKER_00: and dying and harshness and it's all kind of depressing
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SPEAKER_00: we can't go outside and now it's the exact opposite speaking of
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SPEAKER_00: the opposite our challenge for july in the rory gummer reading challenge to read
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SPEAKER_00: the books on gilmore girls is short books and this is something
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SPEAKER_00: that i've very specifically done over the years i've learned
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SPEAKER_00: that short books actually works best in summer i do this prompt every single year
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SPEAKER_00: because i just find it so satisfying that you can read a short book
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SPEAKER_00: on this list it could still be something really meaningful
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SPEAKER_00: and you can still take something from it that makes you feel like i read a classic
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SPEAKER_00: not just i read soft thank sure and the reason it worked its way into summer is
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SPEAKER_00: that i used to do longer books and classic books in summer thinking
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SPEAKER_00: that they're lazy hazy days and we have more time but i actually found
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SPEAKER_00: that short books works better in summer and i think it makes sense going back to
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SPEAKER_00: when i was in high school i used to get a list of five summer reads to read by
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SPEAKER_00: the time school started and then right around labor day we would have our exam
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SPEAKER_00: and the ones that i gravitated first were the short ones
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SPEAKER_00: and it's almost ironic it's like we have more time but that also makes us want
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SPEAKER_00: to balance our time better so we can do things whether it's go to baseball game
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SPEAKER_00: which is one of my favorite things to do or swim or run around the yard
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SPEAKER_00: with your kids but at
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SPEAKER_00: the same time like i said we still want something really meaningful
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SPEAKER_00: that makes us feel like we tabled an iconic read like
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SPEAKER_00: a gilmar girl rory would not be relaxing around a pool with
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SPEAKER_00: a magazine or even her cell phone in a year and a life we saw her at the pool
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SPEAKER_00: with anna friend while we're not going to go with books as long and far as
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SPEAKER_00: that our particular catalog includes about 200 short books from the list
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SPEAKER_00: on gilmore girls that i think you can read in a weekend some in as low as
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SPEAKER_00: a minute we have poems on the list but i go all the way up to 300 page books
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SPEAKER_00: for this particular list and that's why there are so many
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SPEAKER_00: and i think it may even be surprising when we think of gilmore girls and we think of
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SPEAKER_00: the books on it
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SPEAKER_00: they're classic books that many of us want to challenge ourselves with
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SPEAKER_00: but can also feel overwhelming some of the books are older and tried and true
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SPEAKER_00: and some are newer more culturally relevant light geisty kind of books and
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SPEAKER_00: that is what i love about this list it's
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SPEAKER_00: really about the most iconic books of all time so i would really love
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SPEAKER_00: to see you grab one of these for even lazy day in the sun and turn
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SPEAKER_00: the last page feeling like you accomplished something much bigger than the number
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SPEAKER_00: of pages you read that's what it's all about
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SPEAKER_00: now as always i feature one book of the non just to entice you to choose something
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SPEAKER_00: that is especially important for you to read
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SPEAKER_00: and last look i did something different i focused on an author gene austen
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SPEAKER_00: and i'm going to do that again and i'm going to focus on william
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SPEAKER_00: shakespeare now his name is mentioned seven times in gilmore girls
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SPEAKER_00: and only charles dickens is named more often i know this for a fact because you may
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SPEAKER_00: or may not know i tracked the books and the authors on gilmore girls
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SPEAKER_00: over several years in excruciating detail if you want it that is
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SPEAKER_00: on Substack fridaynightreaders.substack.com just subscribe and i will email
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SPEAKER_00: that directly to you
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SPEAKER_00: and if you want the version with the episodes after it upgrade to become
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SPEAKER_00: a paid subscriber and you'll get that email directed to you anyway back
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SPEAKER_00: to shakespeare as i said his name is mentioned seven times
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SPEAKER_00: and his titles are actually mentioned 21 times now because pretty much all
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SPEAKER_00: of them are short i thought it made sense to focus on him as an author
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SPEAKER_00: and not just one of the books i also know that many of us
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SPEAKER_00: in our academic lives have read at least one of them so i don't really want to pick
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SPEAKER_00: one that you may have already read i think this is a good opportunity for you
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SPEAKER_00: to choose where to start with shakespeare or where to go next personally i am
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SPEAKER_00: a huge fan of shakespeare i know that it's very hard to read and i don't deny
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SPEAKER_00: that i'm not some super special reader i'm actually quite a ordinary normal reader
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SPEAKER_00: so yes i do find it hard but the way i do it is that i use
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SPEAKER_00: the no fear shakespeare editions and what these are is that
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SPEAKER_00: you may have heard me say this before because i read that i'm always learning but
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SPEAKER_00: on one side is the shakespearean text and on the other side is a modern translation
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SPEAKER_00: of it this one i picked up a midsummer night stream
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SPEAKER_00: because i wanted something seasonal and again
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SPEAKER_00: to knock off another shakespeare off my list and i'm thinking of also watching
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SPEAKER_00: a performance on youtube to go along with it
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SPEAKER_00: i think that's another fun way to do it you can do it with an adaptation for sure
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SPEAKER_00: but if an adaptation doesn't exist or you want something that is
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SPEAKER_00: a hundred percent true to the text you can definitely also find performances
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SPEAKER_00: on youtube the reason i love shakespeare so much is actually not because of
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SPEAKER_00: the clout that comes with just spending an hour or two reading one of his works and
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SPEAKER_00: then being able to happily say
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SPEAKER_00: though i was so busy reading shakespeare this weekend it is actually not
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SPEAKER_00: that what helps me about shakespeare is what i have found is that he is able
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SPEAKER_00: to dig deep into our motivations and what drives actions for better or worse
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SPEAKER_00: of course a lot of his books are tragedies and they are for worse
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SPEAKER_00: but we also see really deep love stories so that can be for better as well to me
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SPEAKER_00: reading shakespeare is like watching reality tv when i read hamlet
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SPEAKER_00: which is my favorite tragedy of his i just keep thinking
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SPEAKER_00: in my head this is like watching dateline in reality tv truth is
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SPEAKER_00: so much often stranger than fiction
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SPEAKER_00: we watch a lot of grabo in our house and i often save my husband
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SPEAKER_00: the best screenwriter
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SPEAKER_00: in hollywood could not script this sometimes shakespeare captures that it's the kind
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SPEAKER_00: of plots that feel like you cannot make this stuff up
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SPEAKER_00: which is why i think his work remains so timeless time certainly passes
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SPEAKER_00: but our strongest emotions remain the same and he is able to bring them out
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SPEAKER_00: to her story the same way reality td does i hope that makes sense
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SPEAKER_00: i'd love to hear whether you agree or disagree on this point you can head to
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SPEAKER_00: the full Substack post that's in the show notes and let me know speaking of
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SPEAKER_00: the full Substack post i've listed 16 works of shakespeare
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SPEAKER_00: that you can read this month to qualify for a short book
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SPEAKER_00: as i noted hamlet is my personal favorite i've read maybe eight or nine of his work
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SPEAKER_00: so far macbeth i also locked and i will note that i watched the recent adaptation
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SPEAKER_00: which was denzel washington and francis with dormant after i read it
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SPEAKER_00: and i thought it was great and that really helped me understand the text
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SPEAKER_00: on another level rummy and juliette
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SPEAKER_00: i totally think is one of the easier ones and a great place
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SPEAKER_00: to start i think what makes it easy is that a lot of people already know the story
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SPEAKER_00: or know some of the most famous lines from it and that gives you a basis to go into
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SPEAKER_00: the text without feeling overwhelmed by it of course one of my favorite annotations
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SPEAKER_00: of all time is ronetta juliet with leonardo dicaprio and claire danes
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SPEAKER_00: if you've been around here for any amount of time you'll know i've said
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SPEAKER_00: that frequently
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SPEAKER_00: it was one of the most iconic adaptations of my high school years i'm lori's age
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SPEAKER_00: so it would have been her years as well even though the adaptation is not mentioned
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SPEAKER_00: on the show a force of text is also super iconic on gilbert girls
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SPEAKER_00: who can forget paris leaning over lori and the
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SPEAKER_00: with a kiss i die
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SPEAKER_00: and this is also our last tristan moment i think there are many people
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SPEAKER_00: who wonder what would have happened between tristan and worry and i believe
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SPEAKER_00: the showrunners said that the goal was to make tristan worry's college love interest
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SPEAKER_00: but then he got one tree hill so that's where logan came in and i actually do think
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SPEAKER_00: that if tristan grew up a little bit there could have been something there
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SPEAKER_00: the last one i want to make a particular note of is sonnet 116 this is the one that
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SPEAKER_00: when rory starts chilton and harris is trying to intimidate her she recites it
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SPEAKER_00: in her ear it's only 14 lines so read it and bam you are done
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SPEAKER_00: with this month's reading challenge you know what i will read it right now
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SPEAKER_00: for you let me not to the marriage of true minds admit in penance love is not love
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SPEAKER_00: which alters when it alteration finds or bets with the remover to rear me
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SPEAKER_00: oh no it is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempest and is never shaken it is
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SPEAKER_00: a star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown
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SPEAKER_00: although this hate be taken love's not time swole the rosy lips and sheaths
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SPEAKER_00: within his bending sigils compass calm love alters not with his brief hours
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SPEAKER_00: and weeks but fares it out even to the edge of doom if this be error and
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SPEAKER_00: upon me prude
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SPEAKER_00: i never read nor no man ever loved that's it you are done so consider
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SPEAKER_00: that one you can check off your checklist and
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SPEAKER_00: if you want another shakespeare you can totally choose from the list or from
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SPEAKER_00: the 200 other books i've placed on the full list for you now let's talk
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SPEAKER_00: about 10 short classics that were mentioned on billboard rules
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SPEAKER_00: that i think everyone should read this is another way that i'm just trying
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SPEAKER_00: to entice you to pick up some of the most iconic books from billboard girls okay
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SPEAKER_00: so let's start with
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SPEAKER_00: the catcher in the right by gd salinger this is a just book and it is so fitting
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SPEAKER_00: for just in case you're not familiar with it is about
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SPEAKER_00: a prep school teenager named holden caulfields he's got this very emo angsty vibe
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SPEAKER_00: he's expelled from school
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SPEAKER_00: and the book is just really all about him walking through new york city and thinking
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SPEAKER_00: about things that teenage boys think about which is why it's so popular especially
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SPEAKER_00: with teenage boys things like loneliness and cynicism coming
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SPEAKER_00: of age i know it's not everyone's favorite classic book
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SPEAKER_00: because some people do not like colden and think he's a brat
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SPEAKER_00: but i think he's very true to how teenagers think and feel
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SPEAKER_00: and i feel like finding a voice that resonates with you is one of
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SPEAKER_00: the most impactful things a book can do especially when you are
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SPEAKER_00: in those formative years and it's hard to find classics
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SPEAKER_00: that feel like they were written for you
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SPEAKER_00: so personally i still think it's worth it even if you don't like holden i also think
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SPEAKER_00: and i don't have data to back this up it seems like this is the most required read
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SPEAKER_00: of all required reads maybe the great gaspy might be required a little bit more
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SPEAKER_00: and this one is a banned book so maybe it is required a little bit less
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SPEAKER_00: but i've just found over time that this is the one that is most often read
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SPEAKER_00: in high schools so that's another reason why i think everyone should read it on
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SPEAKER_00: a slightly lighter note but still an emotional note is charlotte's web
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SPEAKER_00: by me b white this is one of the most beloved children's books of all time
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SPEAKER_00: but really it is for all ages so i think what's nice
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SPEAKER_00: about this one is you can either read it with a child or read it on your own
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SPEAKER_00: and it's still gonna work
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SPEAKER_00: in case you aren't familiar it's about a spider named charlotte
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SPEAKER_00: and she becomes friends with wilbur who is a pig who is the runt of
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SPEAKER_00: the litter destined for slaughter so that's where the emotions come into it
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SPEAKER_00: and charlotte's goal is to use her web to save his life so this is one that is
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SPEAKER_00: about themes of friendship and love and loss that's what makes it so timeless
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SPEAKER_00: for all ages it really is one of those children's books that even adults can read
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SPEAKER_00: from a new lens having experienced so many more years of life so it's a lesson
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SPEAKER_00: for people who haven't gone through as much length
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SPEAKER_00: and then it's reinforcement for those who have my best recollection is that
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SPEAKER_00: and worry said this was one of her favorite children's books and i know
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SPEAKER_00: that jennifer shaker who runs a celebrity book club on this today show has said
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SPEAKER_00: that this is one of her favorite books as well now let's talk about
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SPEAKER_00: a christmas carol
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SPEAKER_00: there's a few reasons why i picked this one as a book
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SPEAKER_00: that everyone should read first it is july and i really think it's fun
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SPEAKER_00: to do christmas in july i started doing this a few years ago because i read a lot
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SPEAKER_00: of advanced copies of books
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SPEAKER_00: and i actually found it fun another reason i picked it is
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SPEAKER_00: because i think charles dickens is another author that everyone wants to read
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SPEAKER_00: and knows he's a classic but it can feel a little bit intimidating
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SPEAKER_00: to pick up something like great expectations or a tale
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SPEAKER_00: of two cities david copperfield oliver twist
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SPEAKER_00: so a christmas carol is a really good entry point it's another one like roman juliet
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SPEAKER_00: where almost everyone knows the plot at least generally but at the same time
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SPEAKER_00: when you read the text it really does feel worth it the text is easy to read
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SPEAKER_00: and it's short of course because that is
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SPEAKER_00: but the prose is also really beautiful and it really does feel worth your time
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SPEAKER_00: to read the original words just in case you don't know even
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SPEAKER_00: though you probably do is about ebenezer scrooge who is a very grumpy man
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SPEAKER_00: and he is shown by ghosts his past his present and his future and that causes
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SPEAKER_00: a christmas awakening in him
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SPEAKER_00: which of course is the spirit of the season now let's talk about frankenstein
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SPEAKER_00: by mary shelley i know that just called dean frankenstein and off the top
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SPEAKER_00: of my head i can't think of the other frankenstein reference
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SPEAKER_00: but i think there's one more and go more girls so here's what i'm going to say
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SPEAKER_00: about frankenstein i read this last year to prepare for the movie adaptation
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SPEAKER_00: and it was a book that i was always intimidated
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SPEAKER_00: by i don't know why i just saw science fiction it's a classic it's older
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SPEAKER_00: but it was actually pretty easy to read the writing is also really beautiful
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SPEAKER_00: and i also found that the themes can ring true today we are in a world of ai which
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SPEAKER_00: by off edge referred to ai as creating frankenstein responses to people and all
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SPEAKER_00: the themes surrounding ai in particular are really the same as what frankenstein is
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SPEAKER_00: which is a story of
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SPEAKER_00: man knowing that he has the power to create a human but what is the responsibility
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SPEAKER_00: that comes with that because these get out of control
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SPEAKER_00: with what he created we also get themes of humanity and human connection
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SPEAKER_00: and what it means to be a human versus not a human moving along
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SPEAKER_00: the great gassy this is another book i've talked about so many times but
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SPEAKER_00: because it is arguably the great american novel and because it's very symbolic of
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SPEAKER_00: the american dream and it's the 200th anniversary of anagram
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SPEAKER_00: how could i not mention it it's about a millionaire nay jay gatsby
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SPEAKER_00: and his whole life is dedicated to remains of slicing the past which is something
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SPEAKER_00: that a lot of us do especially in our very tech heavy world today everyone's talking
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SPEAKER_00: about him leveling so for him it's all about winning back days to be canon and
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SPEAKER_00: to him he believes that wealth can recreate the past
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SPEAKER_00: but his illusions or should i even say delusions really come to a head and show
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SPEAKER_00: the dark side of
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SPEAKER_00: the american tree i think this book is absolutely brilliant it's not hard to read
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SPEAKER_00: and i i've said this before so forgive me if you feel like good a million times
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SPEAKER_00: but my favorite thing about
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SPEAKER_00: i think the symbols are not all that hard to pull from this novel
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SPEAKER_00: and make you feel like you read something super important there's also
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SPEAKER_00: a very famous last line that you're probably going to want to memorize and keep
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SPEAKER_00: in your back pocket you never know when it's going to come up in conversation like
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SPEAKER_00: the gilbert rose before we move on i'll note that gatsby i believe came up
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SPEAKER_00: a few times on gilbert rose but the one that's popping into my head is that
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SPEAKER_00: when lorelei and city went to
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SPEAKER_00: conference to learn about the aliens and she ran into the guy who she used to work
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SPEAKER_00: with who had a crush on her lorely says to her you're his daisy
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SPEAKER_00: another atonic gilmore girls read the metamorphosis
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SPEAKER_00: by frau's coffin i picked this one for
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SPEAKER_00: a few reasons one is it's very short two is it's been really popular
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SPEAKER_00: with our readers especially this year i love that it is very well known for being
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SPEAKER_00: on gilmore's this is the book that warry wanted to get in for christmas
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SPEAKER_00: when they first got a thing and lee was like no this is the equivalent of him giving
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SPEAKER_00: football a man who is a traveling salesman turns into a bug
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SPEAKER_00: the language isn't difficult and what it's really all about is how people treat him
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SPEAKER_00: after that so it's very symbolic of themes like dehumanizing people isolating them
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SPEAKER_00: from society and identity crisis even you can read this one even in an afternoon
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SPEAKER_00: and feel like i accomplished something on that note a good transition
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SPEAKER_00: into our next deck of mice and men
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SPEAKER_00: by john steinbeck you'll see this one on gilmore girls is a few times
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SPEAKER_00: the girls i think lorelei at least once maybe even twice say
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SPEAKER_00: the best laid plans i think warry did say it once as well and the best laid plans is
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SPEAKER_00: a quote from a poem the best laid plans of mice and men often go along and that's
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SPEAKER_00: where the title came from but here i have another great entry point
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SPEAKER_00: into steinbeck not only is it short but it's very emotional and very
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SPEAKER_00: it's one that most readers tend to really enjoy story is
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SPEAKER_00: about migrant workers george and lenny who heavy dream that they will own
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SPEAKER_00: a farm this is during the great depression all of these things that bring challenges
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SPEAKER_00: that are very emblematic of the time at the same time it's always
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SPEAKER_00: also about friendship particularly in a very hard time in the world as well
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SPEAKER_00: as all kinds of things about the human condition not unwinds
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SPEAKER_00: the metamorphosis things like human dignity and loneliness and the hope that we hold
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SPEAKER_00: within us in difficult times i really don't think you can go along
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SPEAKER_00: with this one part of prejudice another one that i always talk about
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SPEAKER_00: and i probably already know and may have even already read so i won't harp
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SPEAKER_00: on it too much but at the same time we're talking about short books
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SPEAKER_00: that everyone should read
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SPEAKER_00: so how could i not include jane austen's mostly love remains a comedy it is arguably
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SPEAKER_00: the most famous love story of all time on gilmore girls we see dean read it
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SPEAKER_00: upon warrior's suggestion
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SPEAKER_00: which i've mentioned before i do love that about dean that he did try and gave
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SPEAKER_00: the things that she liked to choose i also love that gilmar krill showed both dean
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SPEAKER_00: and jess reading and talking about jane austen i think that is so important
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SPEAKER_00: and is often overlooked women throughout history have very often been expected
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SPEAKER_00: to read male authors but it's not as often that men are expected
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SPEAKER_00: or even shoes to read female authors so i love that these men even dean showed
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SPEAKER_00: a willingness and appreciation for austin if you don't know
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SPEAKER_00: the story it's actually super simple it is about elizabeth fennett and closer
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SPEAKER_00: a family um for those who are all looking to become married this is in
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SPEAKER_00: the regency time in england and mr darcy is someone who she has
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SPEAKER_00: a bad first impression of so in order for them to find love
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SPEAKER_00: with each other they have to overcome their crime
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SPEAKER_00: and their prejudice that's really simplifying an incredible novel but i'll also note
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SPEAKER_00: that besides the love story you get a lot of social commentary which is very common
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SPEAKER_00: to austin and so many ways to consume this book the 2005 annotation is amazing
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SPEAKER_00: readers also love the 1996 cbc version with colin firth i have not seen that one
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SPEAKER_00: yet you can also watch a modern adaptation like bridget jones's diary i just did
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SPEAKER_00: a whole post about jane austen adaptations last week including all
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SPEAKER_00: of these another great way to read it is through audible originals and
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SPEAKER_00: the reason i like audible originals is because they're narrated
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SPEAKER_00: by themist actors here it was narrated by rosamund pike who you may also know
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SPEAKER_00: from gone girl
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SPEAKER_00: but she was elite movie and i've said this a million times before but for anyone
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SPEAKER_00: who hasn't heard it yet i'll say it again i just think that
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SPEAKER_00: when famous actors are narrating facet books they just have the skills to make
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SPEAKER_00: the book that much more immersive and easier to engage okay
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SPEAKER_00: remi and juliet we have also talked about already so i don't have a whole lot more
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SPEAKER_00: to say about it except that i do think that it is a book that everyone should read
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SPEAKER_00: and it's short if you're new to shakes here this is definitely the place to start
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SPEAKER_00: after sonnet 116 which you have already read and you've already accomplished
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SPEAKER_00: so you can officially say this is your suffix shakes here not your first and last
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SPEAKER_00: but not least slaughterhouse five by kurt fockett there are
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SPEAKER_00: a few reasons why i chose this one this is a book that i can even picture it
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SPEAKER_00: in jess's back pocket
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SPEAKER_00: and i believe he reads it in chilton when he's talking to lane he may also read it
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SPEAKER_00: in luke's apartment i could picture all three of those
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SPEAKER_00: that i had anyway slaughterhouse five is the war story and
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SPEAKER_00: of course we have many war stories on the gilmaros book list most of them are longer
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SPEAKER_00: so this one is a way to get into a war story that is shorter
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SPEAKER_00: and i think that when we are readers who are trying to read the classics and
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SPEAKER_00: the most culturally iconic books of all time war stories fall into that
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SPEAKER_00: because there are so many scenes that come along with war and our history
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SPEAKER_00: as humans what's special about this
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SPEAKER_00: is it does it in a way that is both compulsively readable and memorable this was one
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SPEAKER_00: of my athi ingworth classes favorite classics that we read all year
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SPEAKER_00: in my senior year and i think that the character billy pilgrim and
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SPEAKER_00: the unique things he experienced
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SPEAKER_00: because this is a science fiction novel is what makes it powerful so
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SPEAKER_00: if you're wondering what the heck am i talking about
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SPEAKER_00: in slaughterhouse 5 billy pilgrim relives moments of his life and this includes
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SPEAKER_00: the bombing of dresden but it's all done in a non-linear narrative and it's blending
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SPEAKER_00: the science fiction way of telling a story with bonnegut own opinions
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SPEAKER_00: and experiences with war what he wants you to take from it at the end of the day is
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SPEAKER_00: that war is both traumatic and
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SPEAKER_00: and absurd okay so those are the 10 short books that i'd say everyone should read
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SPEAKER_00: from our list of over 200 so we've now gone through 10 of those we've talked
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SPEAKER_00: about 16 shakes theory of text which i've listed in the full subset post for you and
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SPEAKER_00: when you go to that post i list a 90 total that come from the list of 475 books
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SPEAKER_00: on gilmaras so if you want even more recommendations whether it's
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SPEAKER_00: for now or for later this of all my list is one of my favorites
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SPEAKER_00: because you really can tackle really short things really fast i have segmented into
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SPEAKER_00: under 50 pages under 100 pages under 200 and under 300 and it really just goes
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SPEAKER_00: to show how many books seem overwhelming but really are of that for it to tackle
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SPEAKER_00: and after each title i've placed either a thumbs up which is for books that i read
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SPEAKER_00: and liked a heart for books that i read and loved or a thumbs down for books
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SPEAKER_00: that i read and didn't like and it's funny
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SPEAKER_00: to see how many i crossed off i've been able to go through most of the under 50
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SPEAKER_00: changes books really easily now and sometimes what i do because a lot
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SPEAKER_00: of these are fairy tales or poems you can get the money to and
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SPEAKER_00: if i'm just doing something little on my computer like going
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SPEAKER_00: through my emails i'll just put them on in the background
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SPEAKER_00: and check check check i'm getting closer and closer to completing
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SPEAKER_00: the gilmore girls reading list understanding what they're talking about being able
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SPEAKER_00: to talk about these books in my own real life and all of the other benefits
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SPEAKER_00: that come from reading
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SPEAKER_00: so the full list is for paid subscribers and here is my pitch to you for
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SPEAKER_00: a paid subscription when you sign up for a free subscription on Substack you do get
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SPEAKER_00: a lot of free content including this episode and my checklist
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SPEAKER_00: of 475 plus books off gimbler girls but when you upgrade to
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SPEAKER_00: the paid subscription you get the checklist with episodes so if you're a person
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SPEAKER_00: who wants to know exactly where it was or to track your reading by episode
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SPEAKER_00: that would be for you you also get a lot more exclusive content like
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SPEAKER_00: that whole list i just mentioned
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SPEAKER_00: and other things right now i'm doing monthly wrap books that go behind the scenes
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SPEAKER_00: of my life reading living and writing life at gilmore so you get all my book reviews
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SPEAKER_00: for the month
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SPEAKER_00: exactly what's happening in my writing business and how i'm managing it
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SPEAKER_00: which i think is really interesting because i think a lot about
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SPEAKER_00: where worry gilmar would be then and the challenges she would be facing
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SPEAKER_00: and i feel like i experienced a lot of those and i think it's interesting
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SPEAKER_00: to see how i'm tackling them which oddly may be parallel
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SPEAKER_00: to how worry would be tackling them
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SPEAKER_00: i also just think readers are interested in writing and writers
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SPEAKER_00: and it's just interesting from that perspective my final pitch on
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SPEAKER_00: a paid subscription especially this past week where i've spent a lot
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SPEAKER_00: of time thinking about social media i mentioned how i like to go behind the scenes
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SPEAKER_00: of my life as a writer and one of the things i've been thinking about is whether
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SPEAKER_00: to spend more time on social media to grow my writing business
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SPEAKER_00: and i've spent more time on social media in the past week
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SPEAKER_00: in the process and i just really feel like it's getting worse by the day and there's
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SPEAKER_00: so many reasons for that i just find it all so overwhelming i come from a background
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SPEAKER_00: of long-form content and i really feel like that was the best time on the internet
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SPEAKER_00: and i just love the idea of being in a community where this is your thing
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SPEAKER_00: so i try to do a lot of things here like even training the most important news in
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SPEAKER_00: the book industry of the month for you so you don't have to scroll
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SPEAKER_00: but i really think that we have to force ourselves
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SPEAKER_00: to not scroll i read something interesting that was saying how and this was coming
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SPEAKER_00: from a long time voter as well and he was saying that these days we're consuming
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SPEAKER_00: a ton more content more superficially
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SPEAKER_00: and i really think that's what's gotten lost so that is what's been on my mind and
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SPEAKER_00: if nothing else i would love to see you read at least one more
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SPEAKER_00: of these short books this july because we did already read summit 116 together and
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SPEAKER_00: that is because i know you're going
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SPEAKER_00: to walk away feeling like you accomplished something that is much bigger than
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SPEAKER_00: the text itself for those of you in the united states i hope you have
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