I watched the classic movie “From Justin to Kelly with Love”. You know it’s a good movie when I started watching half way through & it still seemed interminable. Shocking I know, you would think a movie with two American Idol stars who aren’t actors, peppered with a supporting cast with fake Texan accents in a quasi-musical/beach style movie & no plot would be a winner. I was actually cheering for the commercials to come on. Not even the fact that I was half asleep & delirious from a flu could save this movie.  Even I knew it was crap. There is a reason the “Gilmore Girls” referenced this movie several times, it’s just that bad. This definitely has a place in the “Gilmore Girls” bad movie hall of fame.

Ok, so it wasn’t on Rory’s book list.  However, Julie Carobini wrote a book that I had to read.  I was in desperate need for a book that was happy, & this was perfection. If Lorelai had a book list, "Chocolate Beach" would be on it.

Usually if something is kind of funny, my head just says "LOL" & that is that.  I don’t actually laugh at loud.  "Chocolate Beach" actually had me laughing out loud, not just lol-ing.  There are several lines that I must now commit to memory.  The characters do talk about "Gilmore Girls" though, as well as "Trading Spaces".  Plus, it’s one of the few books I have actually given to my mother to read, it’s just something that I think a lot of different women will be able to relate too.  This is one of the few times I don’t feel that my descriptive capabilities are doing something justice.  It’s just a very good book, read it.