books 2011: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

OK, this was absolutely adorable. Told as stream-of-consciousness, in chapters alternating between Nick's and Norah's viewpoints, this is the story of one crazy night and how Nick and Norah meet and fall in love. This was a lot of fun to read. It's a YA novel, but I don't know that I would want my theoretical teenage daughter reading it--there's a lot of sex and a lot of bad language, besides the fact that these kids are in high school but their parents don't care that they're out all damn night, in NYC no less--but Nick and Norah are good kids and we want to see them make each other happy. Cohn and Levithan completely nail that electricity of falling in love and having an endless night of discovering this amazing new person. It was really fun to read this and remember what that was like.