Gilmore To Read: Ashley Poston
Gilmore To Say: A Gilmore Girls Podcast
Tara Llewellyn & Haley McIntosh
4.5 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
My book loving besties! On Wednesdays, we talk books!!!
New York Times Bestselling author of The Dead Romantics & The Seven Year Slip, Ashley Poston is here today! We're talking about Reading Is Sexy's book club pick for July: Sounds Like Love about two musicians who get the same song stuck in their head...as well as each other's voices. In the episode, we chat about the leap from fanfiction to publishing, getting back to the root of loving writing, plenty of Gilmore girls opinions about Ms Rory Gilmore and justice for Lane Kim, and spoiler chat at the end about Sounds Like Love! We might cry a few times!!! Hope you enjoy this one!
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| 0:00.0 | 5, 6, 7, 8. |
| 0:01.8 | Joni. |
| 0:11.4 | Hi, y'all. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome or welcome back to Gilmore to Read. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm your host, Haley, and I'm so glad you're here today. |
| 0:16.8 | It is the first Gilmore to Read episode as we head into Gilmore Girls season, the 25th |
| 0:21.9 | Gilmore Girl season, which is absolutely incredible that we have had this show for that long, |
| 0:26.2 | and then we get to celebrate 25 years of our favorite girlies. |
| 0:29.6 | Today's guests watch the pilot when it first aired, and that is New York Times best-selling |
| 0:34.4 | author and fan girl extraordinaire Ashley Poston, who wrote Sounds |
| 0:38.4 | Like Love, our July pick for reading is sexy. |
| 0:41.4 | Sounds like Love is perfect for anyone who wants to flesh out more of Lane's musical dreams |
| 0:45.8 | and a different East Coast small town. |
| 0:48.4 | A little bit about the book. |
| 0:49.9 | Joni Lark is living the dream. |
| 0:51.4 | She's one of the most coveted songwriters in L.A. |
| 0:53.8 | And she can't seem to write. There's an emptiness inside her and nothing seems to fill it. When she returns to her hometown of Vienna Shores, North Carolina, she hopes that the sand, the surf, and the concerts at the revelry, her family's music venue will spark her inspiration. But when she gets there, nothing is how she left it. Her best friend is avoiding |
| 1:12.0 | her. Her mother's memories are fading fast, and the revelry is closing. How can she think about |
| 1:17.4 | writing her next song when everything is changing without her? Until she hears it. A melody in her head, |
| 1:23.0 | lyricless and half-formed and an alluring and addictive voice to go with it, belonging apparently to a rye |
| 1:29.0 | musician with hang-ups of his own. Surely he's a figment of her overworked imagination. But then the |
| 1:34.4 | very real man attached to the voice shows up in Vienna Shores. He's aggravating and gruff on the |
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