Gilmore Girls – Life’s short, talk fast!

Gilmore Girls é uma série criada por Amy Sherman-Palladino (obrigada, Amy!) que estreiou em 2000 e teve seu fim 7 anos depois, deixando muitos órfãos para trás.

Baseada no relacionamento de Lorelai (Lauren Graham) e Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel), que mais do que mãe e filha, são melhores amigas, a história é sobre crescimento, companheirismo, amor e amizade. Entre dificuldades na escola, no trabalho e na relação com os pais, é impossível para quem assiste não se identificar com as alegrias e desafios da dupla. Os demais personagens que compõe essa história são tão interessantes quanto as protagonistas e não deixam a desejar.

Os diálogos rápidos e cheios de referências também são uma característica marcante da produção, que vale a pena assistir mais de uma vez, nem que seja para confirmar que o seu nível de cultura geral melhorou e que agora você entende o que as duas estão querendo dizer. Acho que a série é como vinho: melhora e fica mais gostosa com o tempo (:

Amy Sherman-Palladino pode ser uma mulher brilhante, mas ela não deve ter construído a lista de livros, filmes e músicas que saem da cabeça de mãe e filha sozinha. Toda vez que eu assisto a série me bate um sentimento de não sei nada da vida, mas tenha em mente: de livro em livro a gente chega lá! E esse é o segundo motivo desse post (o primeiro era trazê-lo (a) para o lado negro da força e te transformar em Gilmore Fan): apresentar a lista de livros de Rory, uma bookaholic adorável!

Eu ainda não chequei pra ver se estão todos aí, mas considerando que são 184 publicações, não devem faltar muitas. A lista é bem eclética, não inclui apenas romances, tem não-ficção, poesias, biografias, filosofia, históricos, etc., e não é restrita apenas aos escritores americanos, inclui de europeus a asiáticos. Os títulos estão em inglês, peço desculpas por isso. Com o tempo vamos traduzindo!

001. 1984 by George Orwell

002. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

003. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

004. Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken

005. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars

006. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

007. A Quiet Storm: A Novel by Rachel Howzell Hall

008. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

009. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

010. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) by Betty Smith

011. Dreiser American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

012. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

013. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

014. Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan

015. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

016. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie

017. Bee Season: A Novel by Myla Goldberg

018. Bel Canto (P.S.) by Ann Patchett

019. Beloved by Toni Morrison

020. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

021. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

022. Brick Lane: A Novel by Monica Ali

023. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

024. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty

025. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

026. Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac

027. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

028. Daisy Miller by Henry James

029. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

030. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

031. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

032. Demons, 182 by Fyodor Dostoevsky

033. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

034. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

035. Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable by Mark Dunn

036. Emma by Jane Austen

037. Empire Falls by Richard Russo

038. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

039. Rick Steves’ Europe Through the Back Door 2007: The Travel Skills Handbook by Rick Steves

040. Extravagance: A Novel by Gary Krist

041. Fahrenheit 451: A Novel by Ray Bradbury

042. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser

043. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

044. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

045. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

046. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

047. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

048. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

050. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

051. How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland

052. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

053. Howl by Allen Ginsberg

054. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence

055. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

056. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

057. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

058. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

059. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

060. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

061. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

062. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

063. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

064. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

065. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

066. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

067. Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides

068. Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville

069. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

070. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

071. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh

072. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest

073. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

074. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen

075. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson ( 1 2 )

076. Night by Elie Wiesel

077. Dawn Powell: Novels 1930-1942 by Dawn Powell

078. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

079. Old School by Tobias Wolff

080. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

081. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

082. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

083. Oracle Night: A Novel by Paul Auster

084. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

085. Othello by William Shakespeare

086. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

087. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil

088. Property by Valerie Martin

089. Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon

090. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

091. Quattrocento by James Mckean

092. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

093. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman

094. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

095. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

096. Sacred Time: A Novel by Ursula Hegi

097. Sanctuary by William Faulkner

098. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

099. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

100. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

101. Siddhartha: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

102. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

103. Small Island: A Novel by Andrea Levy

104. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway

105. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos

106. Songbook by Nick Hornby

107. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

108. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

109. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

110. Swimming With Giants: My Encounters With Whales, Dolphins, and Seals by Anne Collet

111. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber

112. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

113. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

114. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

115. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

116. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

117. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

118. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

119. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis,
Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy

120. The Catcher in the Rye b J.D. Salinger

121. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

122. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Père

123. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

124. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the
Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

125. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

126. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

127. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

128. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

129. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

130. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

131. The Group by Mary McCarthy

132. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

133. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton

134. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

135. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

136. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

137. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

138. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal

139. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

140. The Little Locksmith: A Memoir by Katharine Butler Hathaway

141. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

142. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

143. The Manticore by Robertson Davies

144. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

145. The Meaning of Consuelo: A Novel by Judith Ortiz Cofer

146. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

147. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

148. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

149. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

150. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

151. The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan

152. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

153. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

154. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

155. The Portable Nietzsche – (Viking Portable Library)

156. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House,
and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind

157. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

158. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

159. The Rough Guide to Europe 2006 – Various Authors

160. The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum

161. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

162. The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir

163. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

164. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

165. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

166. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker

167. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

168. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

169. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

170. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

171. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters: A Novel by Elisabeth Robinson

172. Unabridged Journals by Sylvia Plath

173. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

174. Time and Again by Jack Finney

175. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

176. Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett

177. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

178. Unless: A Novel (P.S.) by Carol Shields

179. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

180. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

181. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

182. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

183. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

184. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel by Rebecca Wells