Book Reccos FOR the Gilmore Girls

Okay, so I'm going to start with Rory.

And we both agreed for this one that it needed to be like rooted in education and learning.

So this is Rory striving to get into to get into Yale, and or Harvard, who knows.

And, and so when we read this book earlier this year, Both of us agreed this is the perfect book for Rory.

And it is Rebecca F. Kuang's new book, Taipei Story.

So I'll drop the snob.

When Yale student Lily arrives in Taipei for a summer study at the National Taiwan University, she's looking forward to working on her Chinese language and finding her Chinese self.

If only it was that simple.

When her grandfather suddenly dies, Lily discovers a past so profoundly heartbreaking that she finds herself stuck Unable to move forward, but her grandfather's story is not her own.

None of it happened to her.

How can Lily reconcile with who she is, with where her family are from and when she's caught between their past and their present? So obviously there are some themes in this book that Rory will not identify with, but I think Rory is a very well-rounded girl and likes to hear from other people's perspectives.

But I think what is... crucial in this book is lily is such a type a she's an overachiever it's

called type a story but like totally different

oh my god i've only just yeah she is type a and she goes to type a she's an overachiever she's not used to not being the smartest person in class so what happens at chilton

is that what it's called Yeah.

It's called Chiltern.

Sorry, there's like the Chilterns in the UK.

So I was like, shit, am I actually just thinking about the UK?

Really good point.

So when she's not the top of her class and learning doesn't come completely naturally to her, she's very out of her depth and almost like feels it triggers the identity crisis because she's obviously learning Chinese language and her heritage is from both Taipei and China.

mainland China.

So she kind of feels guilty that she's not, she just doesn't know it.

She doesn't know the land, like her mother tongue.

She can't converse with her grandparents or her parents.

Well, she obviously can converse with her parents, but it's like, she just doesn't have, she's second generation.