What We’re Reading

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist | Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

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Nick’s been dumped, and he’s not over it. So the last thing he wants to see at the show is his ex walking in with another guy. When ex and said guy are approaching his location at the bar, he panics, turns to the girl next to him, and asks if she’d like to be his girlfriend for the next five minutes. Norah, who has her own set of issues and recent mishaps running through her mind, answers by kissing him, and thus begins their journey.

Told in alternating chapters from Nick and Norah’s point of view, this story follows the path of their all-over-the-place night, from that first kiss, to their first fight, to the seeming end and then their reunion.

I really liked Nick and Norah as characters. They’re both quite real, and you might find yourself nodding your head to some of the things they go through feeling. Fun book to read.

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The Land of Elyon, Book One: The Dark Hills Divide | Patrick Carman

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Alexa Daley has always been curious, and gotten into trouble because of it. But when her old friend, and the founder of life as they know it, suddenly dies, Alexa finds herself in an ever-growing web of trouble she isn’t sure how to deal with.

Alone with Warvold at the time of his death, there are those who suspect Alexa of knowing some secret. But all she really has are questions. Why did Warvold tell her that story about the blind men? What does it mean? What’s really outside the city walls?

Little does she know that the answers to those questions will only bring more confusion, as her adventures take her beneath her home and out into the wild, where the animals are waiting to inform her of further impending danger to life as she knows it.

Interesting take on how our actions can have unexpected consequences, including giving us the opposite of the outcome we’d intended.

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