Gilmore To Read: Ava Rani Fixes Logan Huntzberger In Her New Book
Gilmore To Say: A Gilmore Girls Podcast
Tara Llewellyn & Haley McIntosh
4.5 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Gilmore Girls lovers, on Wednesdays, we talk books!!!
USA Today Bestselling Author Ava Rani and major Team Logan girly joins me today to talk about her latest novel that was inspired by Rory Gilmore's college years-- POISONED IVY. If you want a novel with an academic setting, a plethora of family drama, a little mystery, a lot of love, and where the author claims to have fixed Logan Huntzberger, then your next read has to be Poisoned Ivy. Perfect if you are love the early seasons of Gilmore girls and want to explore a more diverse found family in a fictional ivy or love the Yale years and want more!!!
In this episode, Ava talks about growing up with her parents determining her path and how that led to writing Poisoned Ivy and switching careers from medicine to writing. And get ready for the hottest, spiciest takes on everyone's favorite Why Did You Drop Out Of Yale? scene that I've ever heard. Plus we dive into Poisoned Ivy and the tension packed world she created for two college students I just know you're going to love.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | five, six, seven, eight, scroll. |
| 0:11.2 | Hi, y'all. |
| 0:11.9 | Welcome or welcome back to Gilmore to Read. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm your host, Haley, and I'm so glad to have you here today. |
| 0:16.7 | Pasties, let's get straight into today's episode because Ava Ronnie, my guest today, |
| 0:21.4 | the USA Today best-selling author of Poison Ivy takes the cake with the hottest takes that we've |
| 0:27.1 | had from a guest on Gilmore to read or in Gilmore to say. |
| 0:29.6 | I genuinely don't think a more controversial opinion has ever been shared on this podcast, |
| 0:34.7 | and I'm very excited for y'all to hear it. |
| 0:37.3 | Eva is a huge fan of Gilmore Girls |
| 0:38.9 | and very much Team Logan, which you know I adored. Her latest release, Poison Ivy, is perfect for the |
| 0:44.6 | Logan Girlies, but also for Team Jess if you hated Logan and want to see what Ava does to quote |
| 0:49.8 | unquote fix Logan Huntsburger. I just know regardless of your team, this is going to be a book you love. I certainly did. Let me tell you a little bit about Poisoned Ivy because when this came across my feed, I felt like Eva had written a book for me. It is described as never have I ever meets Rory's college years. Our main character, Melina, is a student at the fictional Ivy Winchester University, living a double life trying to appease her |
| 1:11.2 | strict family who has a path set out for her, as well as live her life the way she wants to, |
| 1:15.7 | with a secret phone and bank account to boot. In order to fund her double life, she decides to use |
| 1:20.1 | her experience as a student reporter to enter a writing competition where she is going to expose |
| 1:24.9 | the myth of meritocracy at her Ivy League University by writing |
| 1:28.4 | about a secret society she finds her way into, only to find herself found out by one Conrad |
| 1:33.3 | Hastings, a rather attractive, rich member of said secret society. Melina cons Conrad into working |
| 1:39.1 | with her on the article where they'll share a byline and uncover a mystery in the catacombs |
| 1:43.9 | of Winchester University. I was so hooked byline and uncover a mystery in the catacombs of Winchester University. |
| 1:45.5 | I was so hooked by this book immediately, and part of it is because of how Avera like takes |
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