Gilmore To Read: Sangu Mandanna's Magical Inn Is Perfect For Residents of Stars Hollow
Gilmore To Say: A Gilmore Girls Podcast
Tara Llewellyn & Haley McIntosh
4.5 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Gilmore Girls lovers-- on Wednesdays, we talk books!!!
New York Times Bestselling author Sangu Mandanna joined me to talk about her most recent novel, A Witch's Guide To Magical Innkeeping. Reading Is Sexy's book club pick for September is so perfectly suited for Gilmore Girls readers with its magical cozy inn, quirky found family, plenty of heart, and a surly love interest named Luke. In the episode, Sangu talks about her history of writing and reading fantasy, who in Stars Hollow might be a witch, and a spoiler chat all about A Witch's Guide To Magical Innkeeping and where she started on the path to finding that beautiful ending.
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| 0:00.0 | 5, 6, 7, 8. Sarah. Hi, y'all. Welcome or welcome back to Gilmore to Read. I'm your host, |
| 0:14.7 | Haley, and I'm so glad to have you here today. It is the 1st of October, the week of the Gilmore |
| 0:20.6 | Girls' 25th anniversary. |
| 0:22.7 | Lauren Graham is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday, if you didn't know. |
| 0:26.6 | It's also a big week if you're a showgirl. |
| 0:28.9 | What a fun time. |
| 0:30.0 | It's also the first day of reading for our October pick for Reading a Sexy. |
| 0:34.1 | I mentioned last week that we'll be reading Love is a War Song by Dana Knava, |
| 0:37.9 | which technically takes place during the summer, but Cowboy Fall is a real thing, in my opinion, |
| 0:43.3 | and we will be partaking. But as for today's episode, I got to speak to the darling Sangu Mandana, |
| 0:50.0 | author of September's pick for Reading is Sexy, as well as October 24's pick for Reading as Sexy. |
| 0:56.8 | This year we read A Witch's Guide to Magical Inkeeping, and last year we read her other rather cozy |
| 1:02.2 | witchy fantasy, the very secret society of Irregular Witches. Two books that I absolutely loved. Irregular |
| 1:08.6 | Witches was one of my favorite books last year, and that is the |
| 1:12.0 | exact same for Witch's Guide to Magical Inkeeping. But before I get into my conversation with the |
| 1:16.5 | ever-charming Sangu, I wanted to first offer some more book recommendations that feel like |
| 1:21.5 | Gimor Girls. I picked Witch's Guide to Magical Inkeeping initially because Sarah, the main character, |
| 1:27.3 | runs an inn |
| 1:28.1 | with a quirky community of people inhabiting it, which felt very much like Gilmore Girls |
| 1:32.6 | with its setting of the Independence Inn and more importantly, the Dragonfly Inn. More importantly, |
| 1:37.8 | I don't know. But if this is a setting you really love as well, I have a few more suggestions |
| 1:42.5 | for you in the vein of the Dragon |
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