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Do you love books? Do you love Gilmore Girls? If you answered yes to both of these questions, then it's time to take the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge. This group will read from list of books mentioned on the tv series. There are 340 books total, so there are plenty for the group to chose from. How could this group tie even more to this wonderful show? Each meetup will be held at coffee shop in the Louisville area. We will discuss the book as well as the episode the book was mentioned.
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Happy eggnog and mistletoe!
This month let's take a break from the big books we have been reading and visit a holiday classic.
The Nutcracker and Mouse King (German: Nussknacker und Mausekönig) is a novella -fairy tale written in 1816 by Prussian author E.T.A. Hoffman, in which young Marie Stahlbaum's favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls. The story was originally published in Berlin in German as part of the collection Kinder-Märchen, Children's Stories, by In der Realschulbuchhandlung. In 1892, the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov turned Alexandre Dumas' adaptation of the story into the ballet The Nutcracker.
There is a penguin edition as well as an original 1853 edition of the Nutcraker.This is not on the actual Gilmore girls reading list.
As always you do not have to watch the episodes or read the book to come to Book club.See you soon!
