There’s a reason this is subtitled “From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls;” I think it’s a compliment and would be taken as such by Graham, but this reads A LOT like it was written by Lorelai Gilmore in part because I suspect the actress and her most famous character have much in common.
Reading about Graham’s experiences as a young actress, her personal life, and her roles is thoroughly enjoyable, and she has an accessable, conversational writing style that lets her wit shine through. This definitely reads like a coffee date with a friend.
Until we reach the second Gilmore run. There’s a lot of interesting material on revisiting a beloved role however many years later (I particularly enjoyed reading how the sets needed to be reconstructed and had minor details that were off but only noticeable to the actors who spent so much time in them, uncanny-valley style), but a solid third of the book is basically a diary. If the Year In The Life section had been pared down and written in the same style as the majority of the book, this would’ve been an unequivocal recommendation, but I’ve gotta put it in the resale pile.
It does make me curious about Graham’s previous book, a fictional story about making it in Hollywood she references in this one. Good writer, fun read, but not essential. Definitely a library-borrow vs bookstore-but kind of book.
