What are the Gilmore Girls reading this week? Rory has started her exclusive private school education at Chilton, where her English class is reading some classic literary heavy hitters. Looking to get the American private school experience? Read along with Rory.
Rory’s English teacher, unlucky in love Max Medina, assigns his class a slew of 20th century male authors, as well as one woman who wrote under a male pseudonym in order to publish.
Tolstoy (Anna Karenina, War and Peace, the Death of Ivan Ilyich)
Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist)
Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov)
Balzac (Cousin Bette, Selected short stories, Old Man Goriot)
George Sand (biography of George Sand by Severine Vidal)
If you’re looking for something a little lighter (in content not weight), over at Miss Patty’s dance class in Rory’s town of Stars Hollow the students are carrying Harry Potter on their heads to improve their poise.
Harry Potter is the quintessential tween to early teens read full of whimsy and magic. Harry receives a letter on his 11th birthday telling him he’s a wizard, changing his whole world as he heads to Hogwarts boarding school with all of the other aspiring witches and wizards.
