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!
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