A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER with a new bonus chapter WINNER of the Good Reads Choice Awards 2017 for Humour In this collection of personal essays the beloved star of Gilmore Girls & Parenthood reveals stories about life love & working as a woman in Hollywood-along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again In Talking As Fast As I Can Lauren Graham hits pause for a moment & looks back on her life sharing laugh-out-loud stories about growing up starting out as an actress & years later sitting in her trailer on the Parenthood set & asking herself " Did you um make it?" She opens up about the challenges of being single in Hollywood (" Strangers were worried about me; that's how long I was single!") the time she was asked to audition her butt for a role & her experience being a judge on Project Runway (" It's like I had a fashion-induced blackout") In " What It Was Like Part One" Graham sits down for an epic Gilmore Girls marathon & reflects on being cast as the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore The essay " What It Was Like Part Two" reveals how it felt to pick up the role again nine years later & what doing so has meant to her Some more things you will learn about Lauren She once tried to go vegan just to bond with Ellen De Generes she's aware that meeting guys at awards shows has its pitfalls (" If you're meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair makeup & styling you've already set the bar too high") & she's a card-carrying REI shopper (" My bungee cords now earn points!") Including photos & excerpts from the diary Graham kept during the filming of the recent Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life this book is like a cozy night in catching up with your best friend laughing & swapping stories &-of course-talking as fast as you can