Today at Friday Night Readers, we’ll be breaking down January’s reading prompt to read a children’s book from Gilmore Girls: all the options, how I rate them, and reading tips.

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Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

Kids' Books on Gilmore Girls

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Little Women Christmas Guide

Gilmore Girls onesies

MinaLima editions of classics

SSR Podcast episode about Encyclopedia Brown

I'm reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Our featured book will be Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.

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00:09 Changes to the podcast

01:42 About the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

08:24 Kids' books from Gilmore Girls

09:39 Kids' books I loved

15:23 Kids' books I liked

18:00 Kids' books I didn't like

19:00 Kids' books I didn't read yet

23:06 What I'm reading

24:04 Featured book of the month

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Books, Pop Culture, and Other Mentions:

1. Lewis Carroll
2. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
3. Martha Stewart
4. Miguel de Cervantes
5. Everyone Is Lying to You by Jo Piazza
6. My interview with Jo Piazza
7. Books set in Martha's Vineyard
8. Marcel Marceau
9. Linda McCartney and Paul McCartney
10. Joan Rivers and Melissa Rivers
11. Michael Douglas
12. The Donna Reed Show
13. I Love...
    
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Books, Pop Culture, and Other Mentions:

1. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
2. Little Red Riding Hood by the Brothers Grimm
3. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
4. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
5. Carrie by Stephen King
6. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
7. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory
8. Maguire
9. Harvey Fierstein
10. Paul Bunyan
11. Annie Oakley
12. Catherine Zeta-Jones
13. Michelle Pfeiffer
14. Elle Macpherson
15. Star Trek
16. House of Horrors
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