Sunday, May 13, 2007

GiGi Goodbye...

I've long shared one major characteristic with a character of one of my favorite shows of all time--Gilmore Girls. As you all know, I (and Rory) love to read. And I've often said that just by observing Rory's love for books, and reading everything she read, one could get a wonderful education, at least in the literature department. After all, she did attend Chilton and Yale.
With the series finale this week, I thought what better of a time could there be to post some of what our favorite bookworm heroine was reading all these years. I own each season on DVD, and watch them frequently. Over the past months, anytime I've popped in an episode, I simply jotted down what Rory was reading, either for school or pleasure (usually both). Following is a rather extensive list of books to start with. And this is just Season 1!

Jack Kerouac
Mark Twain--Huckleberry Finn
Steven King
Herman Melville--Moby Dick
Gustave Flaubert--Madame Bovary
Robert Burns--To a Mouse
Leo Tolstoy--War & Peace, Anna Karenina
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Charles Dickens--David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Tale of Two Cities, Little Dorit
George Sand
Honore de Balzac
William Shakespeare--Romeo & Juliet
Martin Luther
Bible
Plato
Mencken's Chrestomathy
Christopher Marlowe
Francis Bacon
Ben Jonson
John Webster
Alexander Pope--An Essay on Critism
Virginia Woolf
Jacqueline Susann--Valley of the Dolls
Oliver North
Roald Dahl--Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
fairy tales--Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty
Emily Dickinson
Jane Austen
Hunter Thompson
Charlotte Bronte
Judy Blume
Tennessee Williams--A Streetcar Named Desire
Mary McCarthy--The Group
The New Yorker
Dorothy Parker
William Gibson--The Miracle Worker
Franz Kafka--The Metamorphosis
Wall Street Journal
Barron's
Financial Times
Marcel Proust--Swann's Way
Michael Crichton
Walt Whitman
Homer
Dante
Sylvia Plath--The Bell Jar
Lewis Carroll
In Style magazine
Glamour
Cosmo
Miguel de Cervantes
Compact Oxford English Dictionary
Dr. Seuss--The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Illustrated Encyclopedia
Nancy Drew series
Edward Albee--Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Friedrich Nietzsche
James Joyce--Ulysses
Isak Dinesen--Out of Africa
Henry James--The Art of Fiction
The New York Times
John Muir
Henry David Thoreau

Did I miss any?

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