Friday Night Readers: A Gilmore Girls-Inspired Community

I don’t know about you, but this holiday season, more than ever, I’m already wanting to break away from the real world and escape into Stars Hollow. This is our safe space when the world feels noisy.  Buddy the Elf may think that “The best way to spread holiday cheer is singing loud for all to hear,” but I think it’s rewatching the Christmas episodes of Gilmore Girls !  Some ooze Christmas spirit,...

In Gilmore Girls S1, E9, “Rory’s Dance,” Rory calls Dean her “gentleman caller” from The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. One of my favorite plays, it’s considered a “memory play” because it’s told from the memory of one character. So, it’s one point of view and not contemporaneous. By nature, the story is subjective and incomplete. I actually loved this literary device. Friday Night Readers...

Welcome to Friday Night Readers, a virtual book club inspired by Gilmore Girls, hosted by Julianne Buonocore, who has run a Rory Gilmore reading challenge since 2021 and wrote the Unofficial Guide to the Books on Gilmore Girls . Fueled by coffee, we help you read, live, and write like Rory. Listen to the podcast on: Substack | Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Read the full blog post and subscrib...