Last week all seven seasons of Gilmore Girls went up on Netflix, which has been a cause for celebration across the more feminist reaches of the Internet. I will admit, I couldn't stomach that clippy, preppy dialogue one bit, and people have always told me I resemble Rory Gilmore, which I resented, so I never got into the show. I was a major convert to the cult of Amy Sherman-Palladino, however, with the tragically short run of 'Bunheads' (RIP), so I'm ready to give 'Gilmore Girls' a chance this time around. It helps that I can pick and choose whatever seasons/episodes I want, and have access to the whole trove at once. I've also been feeling a lot of nostalgia for the WB network these days, probably a result of my Keri Russell fixation which reached alarming levels after 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' (which is so much better than you probably think it is; it's worth it for Keri Russell's hair/wardrobe alone), so I'll be digging in to 'Felicity' and 'Dawson's Creek' this winter also.
So apparently Rory Gilmore is quite bookish? She is constantly reading (or holding books, pretending to read them), throughout the series, and someone took the time to list out every book referenced on the show. It is so obviously a list made up for a fictional character because she's "reads" a lot of stuff that teenage girls, no matter how intelligent, could not slog through, like Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. That's not a book, it's six books, so please don't hold yourself to any standard of completing this list. For the record, I've read about 100 of 339.
