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👩The Literary Heroines Every Gilmore Girls Fan Should Read · Friday Night Readers: Gilmore Girls Inspired Book Club

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Friday Night Readers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fueled by coffee, we break down the books referenced on Gilmore Girls.
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  Our little literary corner of the world helps you understand
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  what the characters
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  SPEAKER_01: are talking so fast about and live in a world of books like worry.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like short, read fast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Before we dive in,
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  don't forget to subscribe to our Friday Night Readers
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  newsletter community on
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  SPEAKER_01: Substack.
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  You'll get instant access to a free printable list of 450 plus
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  books on Gilmore Girls.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hello Friday Night Readers and welcome to June.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is the sixth month in our 2026 Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can you believe we are almost halfway there?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you have made it this far with us, congratulations.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're still a little bit behind, do not worry.
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  SPEAKER_00: Summer is the perfect time to catch up.
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  And just remember that I designed this challenge so that you
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  can always pick easy,
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  SPEAKER_00: medium,
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  SPEAKER_00: or hard books,
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  SPEAKER_00: short books,
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  SPEAKER_00: kids books,
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  SPEAKER_00: long books,
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  SPEAKER_00: and catch up with us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you don't have time to catch up with us, that's okay too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just start right now.
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  So our reading prompt this month is female authors on Gilmore
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  Girls and these are
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  the women who are behind the Gilmore Girls smartest references
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  on the show.
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  I find it interesting that both Gilmore Girls and the books on
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  it are so female forward.
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  The late 90s when Rory would have grown up and the early 2000s
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  when the show aired
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  SPEAKER_00: was truly a time of female empowerment.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am Rory's age so I know all about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We had the Spice Girls and their Girl Power anthem,
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  SPEAKER_00: Destiny's Child,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm a Survivor,
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  SPEAKER_00: Legally Blonde,
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  SPEAKER_00: and even Oprah,
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  SPEAKER_00: the queen of kind of everything at that time.
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  So it's no wonder to me that Gilmore Girls became a hit show at
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  that time.
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  It's also no surprise to me that there was an abundance of
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  books by women on it.
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  It all comes back to Amy Sherman Palladino,
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  who is so very smart herself.
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  One thing that's especially interesting to me is that when you
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  watch the show and
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  SPEAKER_00: its progression over the years,
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  you'll see Rory reading especially feminist texts and it
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  increases as she gets into
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  SPEAKER_00: Yale and is studying politics.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's so subtle, but I think it's so smart.
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  SPEAKER_00: So with that background, let's dig into this reading prompt.
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  First our featured book of the month will actually not be a
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  book this month it will
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  be an author Jane Austen a woman who needs no introduction as
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  you probably know her
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  six rom-coms have been continuously read over 200 years have a
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  great reputation
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  global influence and continue to inspire the modern novel her
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  250th birthday was I
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  SPEAKER_00: believe last year
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  and I still recall seeing all of the birthdays and balls and
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  events at her home.
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  She was truly celebrated and even right now I am currently
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  reading an advanced copy
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  SPEAKER_00: of a July 2026 book release.
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  It's called Most Ardently Yours by Freya Sampson and it's kind
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  of a reimagining of
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  SPEAKER_00: Pride and Prejudice and what happens is
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  SPEAKER_00: Mr. Darcy jumps right off the pages and into real life.
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  It totally reminds me of the movie Elf and the woman who is a
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  writer is tasked with
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  getting him back in the pages with this kind of grumpy
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  bookstore owner who's also
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  SPEAKER_00: kind of handsome.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the type of book where I've been reading
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  SPEAKER_00: Friday Night Readers
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm also currently watching The Other Bennett Sister.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is adapted from the book by Janice Hadlow.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's on the BBC.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am getting it through BritBox on Amazon Prime.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a free trial for that, which I signed up for.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is another reimagining.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it stars the most overlooked Bennett sister, Mary.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is an absolute delight.
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  It starts with her being overlooked and even talked down to by
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  her family and her other sisters.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's a little bit more frumpy and awkward than that.
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  Friday Night Readers Friday Night Readers Friday Night Readers
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  Friday Night Readers
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  SPEAKER_00: It's also really smart.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like Pride and Prejudice was all about finding a husband.
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  Even the first line as you may know is it is a truth
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  universally acknowledged that
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  SPEAKER_00: a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
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  And this one kind of tosses that on its head while also staying
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  true to that notion
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  SPEAKER_00: and the time.
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  That may or may not make sense but if you watch it I think
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  you'll understand what I mean.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyway I highly recommend it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And later this month to feature Jane Austen,
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  I'm going to sit down with another substacker and talk about
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  all of the various
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  SPEAKER_00: Jane Austen adaptations like this one,
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  SPEAKER_00: retellings,
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  SPEAKER_00: their imaginings,
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  SPEAKER_00: and how they inspire reading.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think this is so much summer fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can read the classics, watch the classics, or both.
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  And this particular way through Jane Austen and these amazing
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  adaptations and
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  SPEAKER_00: retellings makes it so much more consumable and fun for readers.
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  Before we move on I want to let you know that on Gilmore Girls
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  Dean reads Pride and
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  Prejudice on Rory's Request and Rory reads Northanger Abbey in
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  the Gazebo.
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  I loved both of these and I also think Northanger Abbey is very
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  underrated and very readable.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a YA book and it's a lot more fun than her other books.
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  SPEAKER_00: It takes a much lighter tone.
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  In my head I'm also picturing that scene which is one of my
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  favorite scenes in the
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  SPEAKER_00: series for book readers
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  It is when Jess and Paris are sitting at the table in the
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  Gilmore House bantering
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  SPEAKER_00: back and forth about authors and Jane Austen is one that they talk about.
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  SPEAKER_00: I truly wish that we had more episodes between Paris and Jess.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought the banter was 100% in this episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: to give you a few more ideas.
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  SPEAKER_00: So as you know, I always feature one book.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in the Substack Post that accompanies this episode,
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  I have linked posts from previously featured books that were
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  written by female
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  authors in case you want to catch up on those features or read
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  those books as we
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  SPEAKER_00: celebrate female authors.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll just list them quickly for you.
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  I talked about why The Outsiders resonates with anyone who has
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  ever grown up,
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  SPEAKER_00: how I gave myself permission to be wild like Cheryl Strayed,
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  Why I Refused to Watch the New Wuthering Heights Movie My
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  Travel Diary of Visiting
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  Margaret Mitchell's House in Atlanta Who Was the Author of Gone
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  with the Wind How
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  SPEAKER_00: Anne Frank's Words Continue to Inspire the World Why College Students Are
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  Struggling to Read Pride and Prejudice And Why the Bell Jar Is
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  the Perfect Gilmore
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  SPEAKER_00: Girls Inspired Read
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay,
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  next let's talk about 10 uniquely impactful books by female
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  authors on Gilmore
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  Girls to further help you decide what to read yourself either
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  this month or to
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  SPEAKER_00: continue considering them for the future.
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  In this section I normally share my personal top 10
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  recommendations to you but I
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  think we have been talking about the same books over and over
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  again and I feel like
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  SPEAKER_00: this is an especially good prompt to go outside of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to talk about books that are impactful,
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  SPEAKER_00: diverse,
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  SPEAKER_00: consumable for summer and may or may not have been on your radar.
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  I just think this really helps us highlight more books by and
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  about strong females
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  which was very clearly an effort made by the showrunners and
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  writers on Gilmore
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  SPEAKER_00: Girls.
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  And in going through I have to tell you that as I went through
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  the full list of
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  SPEAKER_00: books on Gilmore Girls
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  who make this top 10 I had in my mind so many books that I
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  thought were 100%
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  guaranteed to be on this list there is the Eleanor Roosevelt
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  biography and the
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  personal history of Catherine Graham who was the first woman
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  who led the Washington
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  SPEAKER_00: Post but it ended up changing here's what I came up with for you and why
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  SPEAKER_00: The first one is Eva Luna by Isabel Allende.
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  SPEAKER_00: She is a highly influential Latin American writer.
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  SPEAKER_00: She is still living today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I do recall her winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it was under Joe Biden that she won it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe Obama.
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  SPEAKER_00: Friday Night Readers Friday Night Readers Friday Night Readers
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  Friday Night Readers Friday Night Readers Friday Night Readers
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  Friday Night Readers
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  This one has been on my list for so long and I finally grabbed
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  a copy at my library sale.
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  I'm telling you,
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  I have looked for this book at my library sale for I think
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  three years now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's move on.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary.
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  SPEAKER_00: You may recognize that name.
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  She is the famous children's author and this is her memoir
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  about how she became a
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  SPEAKER_00: beloved author.
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  You can see it on Rory's bookshelf in her Yale dorm room in the
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  first year.
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  This is another one that I really can't wait to dig into And I
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  found it in a little
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  free library And it just felt like such a serendipitous moment
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  Because I knew it
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  was on this list But I never expected to find it in that way
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  And who doesn't love
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  SPEAKER_00: Beverly Cleary?
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  SPEAKER_00: She's given us characters like Ramona Okay,
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  now let's talk about The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan In The
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  Bracebridge Dinner,
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  which is my favorite Gilmore Girls episode Lorelai calls her
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  parents the joyless
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  SPEAKER_00: luck club This is not a funny book though It is a very impactful one
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  SPEAKER_00: It is about four Chinese American women and their daughters.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's like these interconnected stories.
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  SPEAKER_00: I believe it takes place in San Francisco.
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  And it's very much about their cultural differences as
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  immigrants of different generations.
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  SPEAKER_00: I learned so much through this book.
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  I've really found a sense of empathy for the Asian American
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  experience that
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  SPEAKER_00: honestly changed me forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's also a Disney movie that if I remember right,
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  SPEAKER_00: it was from the early 1990s that I watched after I read it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel.
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  SPEAKER_00: I picked this one because it's very lovable and consumable,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it also gives us a diverse women's experience set in Mexico.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now,
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  SPEAKER_00: I read it a very long time ago,
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  SPEAKER_00: so my memory is a little weak on this one,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I loved this description.
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  SPEAKER_00: A review describes it as a tall tale,
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  SPEAKER_00: a fairy tale,
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  SPEAKER_00: a soap opera romance,
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  SPEAKER_00: a Mexican cookbook,
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  SPEAKER_00: and a home remedy handbook all rolled into one.
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  SPEAKER_00: That might be one of the best book descriptions I have ever encountered.
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  It takes place on a ranch with a tyrannical owner where Tita is
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  born and food
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  SPEAKER_00: becomes a way of life for her.
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  She grows up to be a chef and cooking is the way that she
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  expresses herself.
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  If you're wondering where the title came from,
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  it is this beautiful quote.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tita was literally like water for chocolate.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was on the verge of boiling over.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that's something that many women today can relate to.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think you'll find it romantic but also bittersweet.
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  SPEAKER_00: The last thing I want to note is that it's pretty short only 256 pages.
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  Okay,
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  let's talk about Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls
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  Wilder.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of our paid subscribers,
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  SPEAKER_00: Sarah,
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  actually brought this to my attention as the one that she's
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  choosing to read this
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  SPEAKER_00: month,
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  and I thought it was brilliant because the adaptation is coming
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  to Netflix on July
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  SPEAKER_00: 9th.
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  It also ties into the nostalgia that is trending right now and
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  how people are
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  looking for analog living and find charm in these American
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  frontier stories.
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  Beyond the fact that you'll have an adaptation that you can
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  watch with it I also
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  thought it was important to highlight this one because it is
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  such a phenomenon I
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  mean Laurel Ingalls Wilder is kind of right up there as one of
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  the most successful
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  pop culture literary icons of all time Her books became
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  something so much bigger
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  than the books themselves I can still recall the original
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  Little House on the
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  Prairie series when I was growing up Again I'm the same age as
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  Rory so I think she
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  SPEAKER_00: would have seen it on TV a lot too
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  And it was one of those things that it felt like it was always
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  on I also think this
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  one really works for American Girl fans Particularly those who
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  love Kirsten Larson
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  If you're wondering where this one is on Gilmore Girls My best
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  recollection is that
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  Sookie says that this is one of her favorites And I can't
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  recall if she said the
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  book or the TV show was her favorite But I'm like 99% positive
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  she was the one who
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  SPEAKER_00: mentioned it
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay Mrs.
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  Dalloway by Virginia Woolf there's a few reasons why I picked
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  this one first I
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  noticed that last month when we were doing books that Rory
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  Gilmore read most of you
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  SPEAKER_00: picked Mrs.
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  Dalloway so I found that to be really interesting that it's
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  popular with readers
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  and then Virginia Woolf was also our featured book of the month
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  last month when we
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  talked about A Room of One's Own which is her essay in which
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  she famously talks
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  about the fact that women needed a room and financial support
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  in order to write
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  SPEAKER_00: like Shakespeare
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  SPEAKER_00: These were opportunities they just did not have during her time.
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  SPEAKER_00: So she's very important from a feminist perspective.
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  In this particular book it is a day in the life kind of book
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  and a woman is
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  preparing for a party and while she's doing that she reflects
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  on both time and the
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  SPEAKER_00: past.
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  There's also another thread in this story about a war veteran
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  who is struggling
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  SPEAKER_00: with trauma and mental illness.
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  I know that may not make sense but it's really about how humans
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  who don't even know
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  SPEAKER_00: each other are connected by their inner experiences.
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  SPEAKER_00: This one is also only 211 pages.
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  SPEAKER_00: And by the way,
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  there was a famous movie probably at least 15 or 20 years old
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  at this point called
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  SPEAKER_00: The Hours.
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  If I remember right,
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  it won a bunch of Oscars and that was inspired by this novel.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you can watch that too if you'd like.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, Out of Africa by Karen Blixen slash Isaac Denison.
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  SPEAKER_00: What do I mean by that?
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  Isaac Denison was a pen name for Karen Blixen and I really
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  wanted to pick at least one
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  SPEAKER_00: One book where a pen name was used for a female writer.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you may be able to guess why.
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  A lot of books throughout history have just happened to go over
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  better when they
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  SPEAKER_00: were in a man's name.
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  SPEAKER_00: This even includes The Outsiders by S.E.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hinton.
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  SPEAKER_00: to disguise her female name.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm pretty sure that book was written as late as the 1950s.
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  It shows you how little things changed from the time of Jane
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  Austen when she also
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  SPEAKER_00: didn't have her name on her books,
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  SPEAKER_00: but rather by a lady.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now I don't think we would have that today, which is great.
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  SPEAKER_00: So anyway,
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  what surprised me about this one is that I'd always heard of
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  the movie and assumed
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  SPEAKER_00: it was fiction,
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  but it's actually a memoir and it's about running a coffee
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  plantation in Kenya.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it seems like it weaves in the politics of Africa.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next up is Peyton Place by Grace Metallius.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have wanted to read this book for so long.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh,
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  SPEAKER_00: but going back to Out of Africa,
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  SPEAKER_00: this is the book that Lorelai buys for Luke to give to Rachel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, back to Peyton Place.
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  This is one that cracks me up because it's when Richard and
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  Rory first connect by
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  going golfing together in episode three of the entire series
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  and they liken the
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  SPEAKER_00: country club to Peyton Place.
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  SPEAKER_00: What do I mean by that?
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  Peyton Place was a very gossipy New England town and if you see
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  the cover of this
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  SPEAKER_00: novel in the show notes,
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  I think you'll be surprised how much it bears resemblance to
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  Stars Hollow.
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  It's about women finding their identity as sexual beings and
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  how this occurs in a
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  conservative place where there's lots of hypocrisy as well as
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  social inequities and
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  SPEAKER_00: class privilege.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's incest, abortion, adultery, lust and even murder.
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  SPEAKER_00: This book,
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  SPEAKER_00: which I believe was published in the early 1950s first,
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  SPEAKER_00: remained a bestseller for over a year.
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  It became a franchise that ran for four decades and it was
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  adapted into a movie in 1957.
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  I think what this shows is how much demand there was to talk
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  about things that were
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  SPEAKER_00: happening behind closed doors,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is very much still true today.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's different,
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  SPEAKER_00: but it's still happening Today,
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  it's more like what you see on social media isn't reality Then
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  it was more just
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  SPEAKER_00: taboo to talk about things Anyway,
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  I think this would be a great beach read Let's now talk about
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  The Pursuit of Love
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  and Love in a Cold Climate Which are two novels by Nancy
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  Mitford Off the top of my
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  SPEAKER_00: head,
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  I can't recall where these were in Gilmore Girls I think it was
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  Emily who read them
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  but there's two reasons why I picked this first is that they
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  are witty novels about
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  romance and marriage for women in British society and I think
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  this feels like if
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  you've already read the Jane Austen books on the list this may
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  be the next logical
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  option for you and the other reason is because Nancy Mitford is
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  an author who
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  Taylor Swift has referred to in her songs and I find that
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  really interesting
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  SPEAKER_00: especially when we're talking about strong powerful women
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  SPEAKER_00: Last but not least is The Stepford Wives.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are very specific reasons I picked this one as well.
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  First,
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  it's very short,
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  so it will be very easy for you to consume this summer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Second, there's also an adaptation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And third,
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  it's all about a satirical critique of women's pressures to
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  conform in their
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  SPEAKER_00: domestic roles.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this takes me back to the Donna Reed episode of Gilmore Girls,
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  the episode where feminism was discussed most explicitly and
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  blatantly in our
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  SPEAKER_00: faces,
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  SPEAKER_00: not just this thread that was woven through the show.
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  lastly yesteryear which is a trad wife novel about a woman who
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  is a trad wife
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  influencer and then wakes up in the 1800s is the hit book of
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  the year and I know
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  that many people have read it and many people are interested in
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  it and are looking
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  for more books like it and this is one that you can pick up if
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  you already read
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  yesteryear and want more like it okay so those are 10 books
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  that I think would be
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  really interesting for you to consider this month and of course
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  we talked about
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  SPEAKER_00: many other ones earlier and if you want the full
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  SPEAKER_00: on Gilmore Girls.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are on the Substack Post that accompanies this episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: I list over 120 of them for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course,
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  I have compiled my personal list that is completely verified of
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  all the books on
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  SPEAKER_00: Gilmore Girls.
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  I've done it over many years,
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  and I can tell you that all the other lists out there are
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  wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's something I've worked really hard to get correct for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here's the way it works.
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  SPEAKER_00: Free subscribers get the list of all the books on Gilmore Girls.
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  SPEAKER_00: Paid subscribers get an index of all the books by episode.
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  and then on that particular post I have also narrowed it down
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  to just the books by
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  female authors and put my reviews next to the ones that I read
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  to further help you
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  SPEAKER_00: decide what to read and to also give my reviews some privacy.
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  Many of these authors are still living and personally this is
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  the way I like to do
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  SPEAKER_00: honest reviews given that authors are exposed to them.
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  It also just helps to protect the work that I have done over
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  the years so it can't
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  SPEAKER_00: just be copied and pasted all over the internet.
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  The way I look at it is when you subscribe you are committing
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  yourself to our
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  reading challenge in a very affirmative way and in exchange I'm
• 19:09
  providing you this
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  safe virtual space to engage and get higher level content that
• 19:14
  supports my human
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  work and the mission behind it which is really to inspire
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  people to read the most
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  SPEAKER_00: culturally relevant books of all time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so that is my sales pitch for this month.
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  I hope to see you over on Substack and I hope to chat books by
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  female authors with
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  SPEAKER_00: you.
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  SPEAKER_00: The one that I have picked is Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan.
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  SPEAKER_00: While I don't expect this to be a particularly feminine text,
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  it's a pretty short audiobook and I really just want something
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  seasonal that I have
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  SPEAKER_00: not read before.
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  I think it will also give me that analog vibe that so many of
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  us are looking for right now.
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  It was written in the late 70s and it's something that I think
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  of when I think of
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  SPEAKER_00: books in that time.
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  She is also the author who wrote I Know What You Did Last
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  Summer which if you are
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  an elder millennial like me you probably know that movie
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  adaptation from our
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  SPEAKER_00: teenage years in the 90s.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's another idea for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope you have an amazing first month of summer.
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  SPEAKER_00: I look forward to engaging with you all summer long.
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  SPEAKER_01: Until next time, life's short, read fast.