Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
October 31, 2016
Daughter of Fortune is one of the books that nobody seems to know why it was included on the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge list.
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Daughter of Fortune is one of the books that nobody seems to know why it was included on the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge list.
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Why is everyone vaguely psychic in Stephen King books? And what the hell is it with shitty Tad’s scary closet?
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So, Crime and Punishment: it’s a book about a guy who kinda wants to murder someone, and then he does, and then he freaks out.
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My favourite game in the world is to pretend Dean is better than him and watch Jess truthers spin out. We all know that Logan was the best.
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There were two stories that gave me brilliant Gilmore Girls epiphanies.
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It is best to read every sentence as if you are Stephen Fry eating a large sponge cake; jolly good.
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I remember loving A Clockwork Orange. Now I’ve read it again, it’s still good – deeply unsettling, but obviously well written.
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In Christine, a small Gollum-style man gets obsessed with a car that soon ends up supernaturally desirable.
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The fact that Jess is shown reading books LIKE Catcher in the Rye conspicuously to get Rory’s attention is just … so … teenage boy type.
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Three stories from Patrick Lenton’s first collection of microfiction, A Man Made Entirely of Bats.
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Catch-22’s kind of pathos overlaid with comedy made me think of Kirk from Gilmore Girls.
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Carrie basically follows a kind of Mean Girls meets She’s All That narrative, except there’s a whole bunch of traumatic menstruation-based bullying, and after our protagonist goes through her miraculous prom transformation she destroys the entire town.
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The Canterbury Tales are like the Bible. Full of obscure language and stories that you shouldn’t try to follow too closely but the basic morals are okay.
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It’s easy to imagine the precocious Rory Gilmore reading Mary McCarthy’s essays. McCarthy is perfect for Rory: clever, insightful and not easily swayed.
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The Bielski Brothers is an amazing story about three Jewish brothers fighting a guerrilla war against the Nazis.
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It’s all very violent and there are battles and demons, and when I say it like this, it all sounds cool. But I didn’t understand what was happening.
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One thing I did wonder when reading this is what will the world learn from Gilmore Girls thousands of years into the future?
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I didn’t want to read this book. I had a vague idea of what it was about – harrowing slavery, a woman with a dead baby.
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I kind of want to live in Stars Hollow, but also I realise that I would probably go insane almost immediately.
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Now, I have to admit, when it comes to the Dean/Jess debate, I’m on team Jess.
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Faludi examines gender roles and the idea that, because there are women who feel disappointed or disheartened by feminism, and because there are those who claim that it has no relevance today (certain media outlets and politicians for example), shows that we still need feminism.
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Babe is a warm little cuddle of a book in which a young orphaned pig becomes a successful sheep-herder because he treats the sheep with care and courtesy.
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I feel this book almost directly correlates with Rory’s ‘awakening’ at the hands of bad-boy Jess.
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Rory Gilmore is way more hardass than me in her choice of harrowing reading material – though, let’s face it, Rory Gilmore is way more hardass than everyone.
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Atonement is one of those beautifully crafted books that manages to evoke the feeling of looking at a misty, crumbling manor house while remembering all the terrible things you’ve done in your life.
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I may be wrong, but I believe the entire reason I’m reading The Art of War is because Paris quips that she can deal with aggressive behaviour because “she has read The Art of War”.
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Having to wade through this dry examination of a specific period of the Peloponnesian conflict simply because the book APPEARED on Richard Gilmore’s shelf in an episode was super hard.
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Russian literature is a huge, icy black ocean. You hear people tell stories about it, in a casual, offhand way. ‘Oh yeah, I read War and Peace’ and everybody else in the room just shuts up.
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Despite no end of dead babies, I found Angela’s Ashes a cheering book in many ways.
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More like Theodore Dreiser-bone. That was a witty quip to connote that he’s boring, and not some kind of reference to a rural raincoat.
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