неделя, 22 декември 2013 г.

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and Daid Levithan

That's just a quick review. Really short, no more than my general oppinion. I'm not going to discuss it in details.

“I’ve left some clues for you.
If you want them, turn the page.
If you don’t, put the book back on the shelf, please.”

So begins the latest whirlwind romance from the bestselling authors of Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Lily has left a red notebook full of challenges on a favorite bookstore shelf, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept its dares. But is Dash that right guy? Or are Dash and Lily only destined to trade dares, dreams, and desires in the notebook they pass back and forth at locations across New York? Could their in-person selves possibly connect as well as their notebook versions? Or will they be a comic mismatch of disastrous proportions?

Rachel Cohn and David Levithan have written a love story that will have readers perusing bookstore shelves, looking and longing for a love (and a red notebook) of their own.


This was a great Christmas-y read. It's basicly a love story. The main character, Dash, finds a red notebook in a bookstore. There are clues there left by a girl called Lily. They start comunicating through the red notebook and they fall in love and try hard to find each other. As I said, a love story, but there were those moments, those very deep philosophical moments in the book where it didn't seeme entirely like a romance. However I loved it. I liked Lily more than Dash. Maybe because I'm a girl (Well, duh!) but it's probably because Lily is a "wierd girl" as she herself said. And aren't all fangirl book lover girls wierd in some way.
I liked that there are two authors of this book. On the one hand we have Rachel Cohn:

“Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make herself easier to find. I always hoped that after the prince found Cinderella and they rode away in their magnificent carriage, after a few miles she turned to him and said, "Could you drop me off down the road please? Now that I've finally escaped my life of horrific abuse, I'd like to see something of the world, you know? I'll catch back up with you later, Prince, once I've found my own way.”

And on the other- David Levithan:

 "Aesthetic and utilitarian considerations aside," I said, "Those mittens don't particularly make sense. Why would you want to hitchhike to the North Pole? Isn't the whole gimmick of Christmas that there's home delivery? You get up there, all you're going to find is a bunch of exhausted, grumpy elves. Assuming, of course, that you accept the mythical presence of a workshop up there, when we all know there isn't even a pole at the North Pole, and if global warming continues, there won't be any ice, either."
This book is just full of great quotes like those two. I love it and I bet you will love it too. Once you read it. Now go read it. 

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