Gilmore Girls · Season 2, Episode 4, "The Road Trip to Harvard"
Rory on Emily's sofa: Mrs Dalloway
Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) · Emily's sofa
Gilmore Girls · S2 E4Sleuthed by @shelfsleuth
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What it tells you
Lorelai and Emily start in on each other, and Rory takes out Virginia Woolf and reads straight through it. Two Gilmore women spar while the third reads about a society hostess getting ready for a party. Rory found the one book that works as an escape and a briefing at the same time.
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The book
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 1925 · novel
Woolf published it in 1925, and the whole novel takes place on one June day in London while Clarissa Dalloway preps a party. Emily Gilmore has thrown that party roughly four hundred times.
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