Talking As Fast As I Can

Talking As Fast As I Can by Lauren Graham

April 2024

5 out of 5

“But life doesn’t often spell things out for you or give you what you want exactly when you want it, otherwise it wouldn’t be called life, it would be called vending machine.”

Talking As Fast As I Can is a memoir that Lauren Graham wrote about her life as becoming an actress and especially her life as Lorelai Gilmore in Gilmore Girls. Throughout the book you find out more about Lauren becoming an actress and some of the fun things she did as an actress. Towards the end of the book it gives you Lauren’s raw feelings of working with the cast of Gilmore Girls and shooting “A Year in the Life.” If you like watching Gilmore Girls it is hard to separate Lauren and Lorelai, but it makes the book even better because their emotions, attitudes and personality are very similar.

“I still find that, in general, having a plan is, well, a good plan. But when my carefully laid plan laughed at me, rather than clutch at it too tightly I just made a new one, even if it was one that didn’t immediately make sense. In blindly trying a different path, I accidentally found one that worked better. So don’t let your plan have the last laugh, but laugh last when your plan laughs, and when your plan has the last laugh, laugh back, laughing!”

• 1 POV

• Hilarious, witty

• Memoir

• Gilmore Girls/ A Year in the Life

• Actress

After reading this book of course I had to rewatch Gilmore Girls. It was nice to hear from the main actress point of view how it was to interact with the other actresses and actors. In the book she wrote about funny moments in the script or sad moments and her true feelings. Rewatching “A Year in the Life” without reading this memoir you might not be able to catch those moments but after reading it, you can tell the difference. I was happy that my first memoir (that I remember reading) was from a show that has a lot of meaning for me, and is a comfort show for me to watch.

“It’s an accomplishment to do something well, but maybe even a bigger one to do something well when you’d really rather not be doing it at all.”