#literati bookstore

[the-forest-library]

All-Time Bestsellers at Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, MI

#literati bookstore #books #booklr #reading #bookish #bibliophile #independent bookstore

[remindmetoreed]

i don't miss many things about my time in the midwest, but Literati Bookstore is definitely one of them.

#remindmetoreed #literati bookstore #ann arbor #reading #book blog #bookblr #books #books and reading #reader #bibliophile #bookworm #book lover #bookish

[paulpingminho]

#bookstore #books #picture books #kids books #Literati Bookstore #Ann Arbor #Michigan

[anxiouspotatorants]

Just in case nobody's come up with it before me: Literati AU set to French Kiss (1995) where Rory is an anxious airplane-taker flying to London to get her cheating fiance (Logan or Dean, you decide!) back and happens to sit next to an American-turned English con artist named Jess.

#Paris or Luke is the police guy #either Liz and her family or Jimmy and his are the ones Jess has in England #also he wants to buy a bookstore/old publishing house instead of a vineyard #Rory could still be a professor but it would be funny if she was a journalist who was afraid of flying #literati #literati au #gilmore girls au #my aus #rory x jess #rory gilmore #jess mariano #gilmore girls

[jojoblessed365]

ON-THE-ROADING-IT- A 3-Part Series

Part 01: The Valleys of New Orleans and Midnight Train to Memphis

E. J. Dennis Hilden is an ordinary girl living in a small town. Only three things are important to her- ballet, ballet, and ballet. But Spring Break is on the horizon, and she's indefinitely bored. And then she learns of Jess Mariano's book tour in New Orleans and Memphis and decides to ride along. After all, she's his sister and barely knows him. It wouldn't hurt to skip out on that audition to ballet summer program of her dreams right?

Jess Mariano is reeling from his breakup, a relationship of 3 years. He doesn't want to do the book tour of his new book. That is, until he gets a call from his little sister, someone that he barely has a relationship with, asking to come along. And he can't resist. After all, he could use the company.

What happens when they get more than what they bargained for?

A story of a brother and sister who begin a journey, literal and figurative, which changes their lives, irrevocably forever...

Read now on Ao3 here.

Dedicated to @sagestonefanfiction and @thehedgehogsdilemmaa

#jess and doula #jess mariano #doula danes #Literati #road trips #ballet #mix tape #bookstores #milo ventimiglia #izabela vidovic

[emmafallsinlove]

literati tumblr!au where rory has a blog about books and stuff and jess is her mutual for almost like 4 years but they never met and he’s always sending her asks about books critiques and recommendations and stuff. and one day he mention that he’d be in connecticut for the weekend and if she wanna meet him at a bookstore in this nowhere town his uncle lives in and she’s like “sure what’s the name of the town” and he’s like “stars hollow” and she’s all losing it and can’t respond for an hour until she grabbing her phone again and texting him like “jess, that’s where i live” because i need it and i want it and -

#THEY MAKE ME SOOOOO INSANE #I LOVE THEM SO MUCH #and i kind of want a modern!au about them……… #literati #jess x rory #gilmore girls

[saltygilmores]

Thoughts While Watching Gilmore Girls, Season 2, Episode 13 ("A Tisket A Tasket") Part 5, I Give Up

Just for funsies here's Jess calling Dean an idiot and Idiot admitting it.

Before I continued to slog through this absolutely mind numbing DALA (Dean and Lorelai Affair) episode, I uttered 6 words that I hope won't come back to bite me in the ass: "This can't possibly get any worse." Ahahahahahaha. There are 14 minutes left in the episode. I'm fucked. I've been on this one way too long and I'm determined to finish this. I'm just going to enjoy this Literati on a Bridge break. I'm going to my happy place where Dean doesn't exist and Rory is an orphan because Lorelai (and Chrisopher) don't exist and every episode is just 45 minutes of this.

"I'm so much happier here." R: "Why were you screwing with Dean an hour ago but you're suddenly being nice to me?" J: "Well it's the screwing with Dean that's an important step to getting here so I could be nice to you."

Ugh he took the fucking Quarter On A String so now I have to suffer through that fucking Lost and Found episode. God damn it Mariano! Why are the pretty ones always so dumb?

Did I mention that he is so pretty. I'm legally obligated to say that at least twice per Jess Episode. After Rory and Jess part ways, we cut to Rory returning home with a bag from the bookstore and Lorelai immediately shifts full gear into Weirdly Suspicious & Passive Aggressive Mode. When Rory admits she visited a bookstore and had a slice of pizza with Jess (oh the horror!) then goes to her room, Lorelai immediately shuffles her passive aggressive, suspicious little feet right in after her. 90% of the time that Lorelai and Rory meet to talk on their couch after Rory has just departed from the company of Dean or Jess, especially at night or at the end of the episode, it means Lorelai is about to dish out some horrible, horrible wisdom/life coaching. The Couch is where we have witnessed many classic mother-daughter bonding moments, such as the time Lorelai asked Rory to make sure Jess got his rabies shots before she slept with him. Ah, the couch.

Mmmm yep. *collects money*

SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH. Here we go. I think it was the great Michael Scott who once said, Why are you the way you are? Honestly, every time I try to enjoy something fun or exciting, you make it...not that. I hate so much about the things that you choose to be.

Ya know, I stan Rory more and more lately with how she stands up for Jess. Sorry your mom's a bitch. How many more tmes I can rant into The Void about Lorelai's unhealthy grudge with Jess? How many more times can I point out that Lorelai has only had one prolonged interaction with Jess, while she's known Dean twice as long and he's been rude and used a condescending tone of voice with her many times, including the first time they met (on Willy Wonka night) and it literally just happened again moments ago. It's just mindblowing to me how she will not let this FUCKING GO and SIXTEEN years later in AYITL when she is married to his uncle she is STILL making digs at him over him being rude to her when he was 17, joking about how he should have a baseball thrown at his head.

I honestly don't think I could love Rory Gilmore more at this point. Bless her rationality and sweet heart and cute rose sweater that looks like a swirl of that strawberry icing you squeeze over instant oatmeal. Are you witnessing a historical moment right now? The birth of a Rory Stan? Sort of. It won't last forever, but since I won't go past season 4 anymore, then yes.

The "things she's seen and heard" are just her regurgitating what Dean told her 5 minutes ago. LOL. She just took this kid's word as gospel, without even questioning it. The DALA is so fucked up, man! Lorelai is way too concerned with the lives of teenage boys! If Dean told Lorelai to jump off a bridge would she do it?

I really wish this were my gritty unrated Gilmore Girls spinoff titled The Hollow because I would have someone on this show actually acknowledge that Jess is honestly something of a miracle. His father abandoned him as a newborn, he had a tumultuous, negligent, inconsistent, possibly even abusive upbringing. His mother drank while she was pregnant with him. He grew up watching unsavory men in his mother's life circle in and out like a revolving door (according to Liz The Worst, one of them even died). Yet he doesn't turn to any real crime, drugs, alcohol, or even sex (okay, well bless his heart he tries there but people seem to cockblock him at every turn). HE SKIPS SCHOOL TO WORK AT WALMART. In real life kids like that are really lucky if the worst path they go down after that kind of chilhood merely involves them stealing loose change from an old fucknugget like Taylor Doose who deserves to be stolen from anyway. That bridge should have been fixed 10 years ago. Here's some of the train wreck. There were no survivors.

If Dean needs someone to talk to that badly he can get a diary or a dog or a sock puppet or like, one fucking friend his own age. I think half of the issues of this show could be solved if these people had more friends. Can't Taylor Doose swing some kind of town wide Bid-A-Friend Auction? Or emotional support animals?

Sure but like, did you ever stop to think that you and Dean are actually his only "enemies" and it's completely one sided because he couldn't care less about you, and also, your enemy is a 17 year old boy and you're a full grown adult lmao. Crazy lady. I wonder how Jess feels knowing he's the most exciting thing that's ever happened to a town full of boring nobodies who will go nowhere and do nothing while he will eventually makes millions of dollars from his best selling novels that get turned into blockbuster movies. Maybe someone will even make a movie about his life. I'm going to think about who could play Milo/Jess in a movie about himself while Lorelai yammers on and remains in denial about how insane she is. What do you think? Lorelai says Rory is "So young and naive, so nice and gives everyone a chance"; what she's really saying is "Jess doesn't deserve a chance, not even from you." I stoppped watching at this point and only skimmed a few more seconds. I saw that Rory stormed off, Lorelai and Rory fight over it at FND, Emily is confused, Lorelai says "I didn't like Dean at first because I didn't know him, I don't like Jess because I know him." You know what, there are times when this show starts to get my under my skin so much that I’m just not enjoying it and there’s no point in finishing the episode. In conclusion, Lorelai sucks and ruins everything and my number one Hill To Die On will continue being that Dean and Lorelai are sleeping together because there is no other logical explanation possible for why she talks about him like this. Goodnight!

Edit: guys, sorry that I was so enraged with Lorelai The Worst that I managed to gloss over the fact that Rory and Jess went on a Book Shopping and Pizza PRE-DATE 😍😍😍😍 THEIR FIRST ONE!

In my Gilmore Girls spinoff The Hollow we would see every minute of every Pizza and Book date and pre-date I promise you this 🥰 No skimping!

#gilmore girls #denise rewatches gilmore girls #gilmore girls season 2 #a tisket a tasket #a-tisket a-tasket #literati #rory gilmore #jess mariano #Lorelai Gilmore #ARRRRRGHHH #RAGE #BUT A PRE DATE #I CANT WAIT FOR THEIR HOT DOGS AND RECORD SHOPPING PRE-DATE

[nelllover]

I am so close to writing a bookstore AU for Literati but I could never write any of their book related banter

I’m debating whether or not I should just go for it. like would anyone read that?

#literati #nell having a mental break tag #nell is obessed with gilmore girls tag #rory x jess #gilmore girls #fanfic writing #this just me asking for validation

[roeyliteratiforever]

do you ever think of how jess probably dedicated the subsect for tory? front page and everything. something along with “to r.g - the only one who has ever believed in me, i’m ready now.” because he would always be ready for her, he needs her to know it. i just can’t stop thinking about rory goes to every store in hartford after he left her outside the bar / restaurant, after he told her “happy birthday btw. was it a couple of weeks ago, your birthday?” like he can see right trough her and searching his book, buying every damn copy she can get and gives it to everyone - her grandfather, her mom, luke, paris, lane, even logan. because she’s so proud of him!! and she wants everyone to know!! THEY MAKE ME CRAZY

Hi! 🥰 @onurownkidd

Yes I think about this so much! You just know Jess dedicated The Subsect to Rory! She has no idea the impact she had on him! He definitely dedicated his book to her when he tells her he couldn't have done it without her! My heart about explodes out of my chest from that! She was his whole inspiration to write The Subsect in the first place and how she always believed in him when no one else did! I'm getting in my Literati feels right now! They mean everything to me! OMG when Jess remembered her birthday!! It gets me everytime!! Yeah you just know she went around to every bookstore in the area buying a copy of his book to give to everyone she knows because she's just sooo proud of him and she loves it so much! She is his biggest cheerleader and he is hers too! They make me emotional! They make me crazy too!! 🥰💞

#jess and rory #jess mariano #jess x rory #rory and jess #rory gilmore #rory x jess #literati

[allthetorturedpoets]

do you ever think of how rory looked at jess in 2x05 when he told her about the notes in the margins like she wanna study him? like she wanna know every little detail about him? how she wants to just know him? how most of the time in s2 she actually tries people to see he has a good side to him but she also. study him quietly when she and lorelai sits down for breakfast before school, looking and recognizing his handwriting, study him from afar while she’s hanging out with dean, going to the bookstore and sees him sit there for hours reading and then he leaves, and she picks up his book, the one that he just left there for her to pick up, helping her and walking her home after school because he just happened to be there when she gets back and bring her a cup of coffee. she studies him; the way his hair fall over his eyes while he’s reading, the way that he writes stuff in the margins, the way he’s always noticed every little thing about her, reads her like an open book and when he’s gone all that she can think of is that she wants him. but also. rory doesn’t tell anything about it to lorelai because lorelai wouldn’t understand. how she usually picks up books she thinks he’d like, leaving them on purpose on luke’s counter for him to picks up (and he does, writes little notes in it), how she comes a little bit early to luke’s in the mornings because she wants to see him. godddd them 😭

oh my god or???? i'm going to lose my mind over this... your mind when it comes to literati is actually unmatched! anyway, i'm going to be rereading this for the next month. i'm never getting over them

also "the way his hair fall over his eyes while he’s reading, the way that he writes stuff in the margins, the way he’s always noticed every little thing about her, reads her like an open book and when he’s gone all that she can think of is that she wants him" has such strong i sit and watch you reading with your head low from tolerate it but in the best way possible

#or’s literati posts are always magnificent #literati #gilmore girls

[emmeriex]

would anyone be interested in reading missing literati scenes? the bookstore after the picnic in 2x13, jess listening to the message rory left him in 3x15, one of their dates that was constantly mentioned but never seen, a movie night, ect

i just wish they got their five minutes of happiness like logan and dean did with rory

#i wanna start writing more but writing rory and jess is intimidating #mostly because i feel like i can’t adequately write the witty referenced filled dialogue asp does #jess mariano #gilmore girls #rory gilmore #literati #otp 22.8 miles

[sagesfandomspot]

I was reading this one literati fanfic where Rory and Jess meet and end up traveling all over the world together (it was 🥺💕) but it got me thinking abt a literati road trip but I’m talking unplanned, just crazy, full of chaos, random stops road trip. I’d live for that ngl. 😭

NO BC YOU'RE SO RIGHT!!! A literati road trip would be such a beautiful, chaotic, hilarious thing. Like, Rory being insistent on using a map until she gets distracted by a cheesy road-side attraction that Jess argues is definitely a tourist trap but they go to anyway and end up having the most amazing time and getting souvenirs for themselves and Luke and Lorelai (which Lorelai wears proudly and Luke wears begrudgingly, secretly over the moon that Jess thought to get him a souvenir). Rory blabbering on about her road-trip memories with Lorelai and Jess happily listening with a smirk on his face. Them stopping at every bookstore they come across and not even caring how full their bags are going to be with new books. Gorging themselves on junk food and lovingly bickering about what snack is the best road trip snack. Ugh it would just be incredible. 😭

#can you imagine? #rory would totally make jess pose for pictures every time they stop #and jess would just give a tight smile at first but then end up surprising rory with a kiss on the cheek #the cutest #i love them so much #literati #roadtrip #gilmore girls #jess mariano #rory gilmore #ask #missroller15

[lavenderandlaurel]

@bogbodyanon tagged me to share 23 books I'm excited to read in 2023! in no particular order:

place and placelessness by e.c. relph

speaking of jews: rabbis, intellectuals, and the creation of an american public identity by lila corwin berman

planting the world: joseph banks and his collectors: an adventurous history of botany by jordan goodman

the way spring arrives edited by yu chen

tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by gabrielle zevin

the future of natural history museums edited by eric dorfman

the dream of the red chamber by cao xueqin

the great derangement: climate change and the unthinkable by amitav ghosh

the domestic revolution by ruth goodman

great american city: chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect by robert j. sampson

zakhor: jewish history and jewish memory by yosef hayim yerushalmi

urban forests: a natural history of trees in the american cityscape by jill jones

a natural history of the senses by diane ackerman

the reach of rome: a journey through the lands of the ancient empire, following a coin by alberto angela

the disordered cosmos: a journey into dark matter, spacetime, and dreams deferred by chanda prescod-weinstein

no logo by naomi klein

giovanni's room by james baldwin

the reckless decade: america in the 1890s by h.w. brands

the city and the city by china mieville

identity and the museum visitor experience by john h. falk

the radical bookstore: counterspace for social movements by kimberley kinder

literati storytelling in late medieval china by luo maling

the green new deal and beyond: the road from climate emergency to ecological reality by stan cox

yeah okay this is a pretty good snapshot of who I am as a person right now lol

tagging (if you want to!) @carlodivarga-s @blysse-and-blunder @sleepanon @ohk4te

#bookposting #2023 tag

[paulpingminho]

#bookstore #Hispanic Heritage Month #Literati Bookstore #Ann Arbor #Michigan #reading

[audiofictionuk]

Finding Pattersby

New Audio Drama! Finding Pattersby is a weirdo-mystery about an ex-ghostwriter who uses his investigation of a legendary, missing thriller author to work through some stuff. Also the ghostwriter is a liar. Follow host Ryan Cervantes in this 10-part comic thriller set in the world of high stakes thriller publishing, as he enters a land of cultish fandoms and cut-throat literati; of secret societies with ancient coffee beans and occult writing exercises that pierce the veil and top the charts of novels sold in supermarkets and airport bookstores…OR DO THEY? That’s what host Cervantes aims to find out in this pot-boiler for the ears. But if he hopes to escape the same fate as his missing boss in this IRL thriller, he’ll have to draw on everything he knows about how to survive a very deadly bestseller. https://patterspod.com RSS:https://feed.podbean.com/patterspod/feed.xml

#audio fiction

[jojoblessed365]

Figured I should do a roundup, so here goes:

I'm @jojoblessed365 on Ao3, and here are my completed Literati fics-

The Slender Woman

The year is 1946. Jess Mariano is a private eye, working for the smaller neighbourhood. He's smart and savvy. The only problem? He's 30, and has no wife. He's barely husband material. But no matter- he has a mother and a sister who looks up to him...

Then it all changes, when a blue-eyed wonder enters his office with a case that will change his life forever...

For fans of noir and Casablanca with Literati as the core couple, this one's for you!!!

The Day I Met You

When Harry Met Sally (1989) deals with one question- can men and women be just friends? Well, Jess and Rory are about to find out...

OR

The one where Jess and Rory are childhood friends, and that changes everything...

Are You Listening?

Rory Gilmore is a 20 year old studying at Yale. She has a lot of dark secrets and trauma which she dissolves with alcohol and her life revolves around her roommates and career. All she does is go to sleep at a party...

And wakes up to find that she's married, has a son and more questions that she can't understand, let alone comprehend. It is then that Rory confronts her demons and find answers to come off the self-destructive path that she's on, all with the help of a husband...

For fans of angst, this is the fic to go!!!

One-Shots

Pancakes, First Day Jitters and a Good Old-Fashioned (almost) Spit-Shake

A one-shot of Rory's kid's first day of school... with supportive boyfriend Jess and teen Doula with her own first day of sophomore year (post AYITL)

Distill the Life that's inside of me

Just Jess and Rory celebrating Halloween with little Ivy (2 years post AYITL)

Title taken from- 'Pennyroyal Tea' by Nirvana. Kurt Cobain and wife Courtney reportedly sang an acoustic version of this. It was the first and only time they sang together.

Ongoing works

The Danes Duo series (post AYITL)

A Full-Circle approach to Luke and Jess in the OS series, but with Jess and Doula as the leads (currently in development hell)

ON-THE-ROADING IT series

A travel series centred on Doula and Jess, AYITL style. Currently on the first one- SPRING- The Valleys of New Orleans and Midnight Train to Memphis. Catch here.

Leave the Light On

Rory Gilmore is a self-proclaimed failure. Living in a small town and a small bookstore, she's closed off to the world and everything else. She has books, close friends and a long list of failed romances.

That all changes when a handsome, brooding bestselling author enters her bookstore. And he takes a sudden interest in her. Through steps forward and back, Rory takes control of her destiny and the scars she bore on herself and learns an important lesson- that below the surface, there can be enough darkness to shroud a lifetime, but all it takes is to leave a light on.

Title taken from- Leave the Light On by Maggie Rogers

OR

LITERATI + NOTTING HILL (1999) AU

I Wasn't Expecting You

A rewrite of the Luke-April storyline with Jess and original child character (post AYITL)

You'll Hold Me in Your Memory

Jess Mariano has found love beyond Rory Gilmore. He's so sure that he can move on. That is until he's in a car accident, and loses 10 years of his life and the only thing he can remember is crashing into a park bench besides Rory...

It is then that Jess has to piece together his reality with the help of Rory, Luke and an unknown woman who he feels he knows. Will he regain his memory? And will he be the only one who enjoys being in a relationship with the one woman he can't seem to shake off?

A story where Rory and Jess are thrust together in an unlikely situation and in the process, fall in love all over again...

Title taken from 'But Not Forgotten' by Dorothy Parker.

Open to requests, since I'm stewing from writer's and creative block!!!

Enjoy!!!

#jess x rory #rory x jess #jess mariano #rory gilmore #doula danes #literati #jess and doula #literati fic rec #literati fic #portfolio #wanted to keep everything in one place