Talking as Fast as I Can, Lauren Graham
Talking as Fast as I Can, Lauren Graham
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Talking as Fast as I Can
From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)

Bestseller

Author: Lauren Graham

Narrator: Lauren Graham

Unabridged: 4 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/29/2016

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood—along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again.

In Talking as Fast as I Can, Lauren Graham hits pause for a moment and looks back on her life, sharing laugh-out-loud stories about growing up, starting out as an actress, and, years later, sitting in her trailer on the Parenthood set and asking herself, “Did you, um, make it?” She opens up about the challenges of being single in Hollywood (“Strangers were worried about me; that’s how long I was single!”), the time she was asked to audition her butt for a role, and her experience being a judge on Project Runway (“It’s like I had a fashion-induced blackout”).

In “What It Was Like, Part One,” Graham sits down for an epic Gilmore Girls marathon and reflects on being cast as the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore. The essay “What It Was Like, Part Two” reveals how it felt to pick up the role again nine years later, and what doing so has meant to her.

Some more things you will learn about Lauren: She once tried to go vegan just to bond with Ellen DeGeneres, she’s aware that meeting guys at awards shows has its pitfalls (“If you’re meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you’ve already set the bar too high”), and she’s a card-carrying REI shopper (“My bungee cords now earn points!”).

Including photos and excerpts from the diary Graham kept during the filming of the recent Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, this book is like a cozy night in, catching up with your best friend, laughing and swapping stories, and—of course—talking as fast as you can.

Includes a PDF of Photos from the Book

About Lauren Graham

Lauren Graham is an award-winning actress, producer, and three-time New York Times bestselling author best known for her work on the critically acclaimed television shows Parenthood and Gilmore Girls. She currently stars in the Disney+ series The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, on which she serves as Executive Producer. She is also a screenwriter who most recently completed an adaptation of the popular YA novel Field Notes on Love for HBO MAX in collaboration with its author, Jennifer E. Smith. Her second essay collection for Penguin Random House, Have I Told You This Already?, will be released in September 2022. She holds a degree in English from Barnard College and an MFA from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Leslie on April 12, 2017

Lauren Graham narrating the audiobook was every bit of the awesomeness that I'd hoped for and expected.......more

Goodreads review by Penny on August 12, 2022

In three weeks, I had binged seven seasons and four movies of Gilmore Girls - a feat for some and child’s play for others. Obviously, I was desperately in need of something to satisfy the big, gaping Stars-Hollow shaped hole in my life. You should be pleased to know that this book did just the tri......more

Goodreads review by Lala on May 30, 2020

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Goodreads review by Whitney on August 09, 2018

I told myself I would hold off on reading this until I finished Gilmore Girls, but I gave up on season 7 because I just stopped caring about the characters and the plot, so I didn't mind going into this and getting spoiled. Even so, very little of it actually focused on spoilers on the show, but it......more

Goodreads review by April (Aprilius Maximus) on February 06, 2017

Awwwwww this was so sweet. There were some parts where I found myself skim reading or skipping altogether (the fashion chapter coz BORING) but I really, really enjoyed this and I love Lauren's voice and sense of humour!......more