Talking As Fast As I Can – Book Club

Blowing through a book in under two days and laughing out loud while reading are not my norm these days. But, oh, this book was such a joy to read. Lauren Graham has been a favorite since we discovered the TV show Gilmore Girls. We loved the first few years of it and her character was quirky and fun. Turns out, she writes just like that – quirky and fun.

Reading Talking As Fast As I Can really gave me a sense of talking with a good friend, laughing and sharing inside jokes, which she does a great job of including the reader in. (See her part on “medical, medical”, page 45, for a good example.) Her story includes you in her childhood and brings you up through the end of the Gilmore Girls, part II. I know that’s not what they called it but “reboot” seems a strange word for it since we all knew it wasn’t a starting of the series again. Anyhow, reading this makes you feel a part of her life, like a friend might be. Fun, quirky Lauren just keeps on being herself and brings you along for the ride.

Some of my favorite parts were, um, all of it. Seriously. I read the whole thing in about a day and love it. Want to know about funky things on Gilmore Girls? She gives you a season by season breakdown of the show, including how it is so different from today’s world to fun things that happened or people that came by. Want to know about the second Gilmore Girls? She kept a diary and gives you many days worth of insider information on the filming and the people.

Through out, you get a good feel for the quirky side of Lauren Graham. She talks about the difficulty of being an actor and the joys it brings to her life. She shares about the struggles and the ease. She brings us to see how she stumbled into writing and shows us just how blessed we are by her free time. (We got some good books out of her having some free time!) There are even tips in there for writers that I can see implementing for myself when I would like to accomplish some things that just aren’t getting done.

If you are looking for an enjoyable read, this is it. I can’t recommend it enough. There is little, if any, language in it. (I truly can’t remember any at all but I could have skipped over something and not remember it.) It is fun and funny. What a pleasure it was to read and I am looking for her novel and the printing of the graduation speech she gave.