What I'm Reading

I have chosen another YA book for my next reading treat, and treat it is! Dash and Lily's Book of Dares is a fun treasure hunt set up between two sixteen-year-old strangers as they get to know each other through exchanges written in a notebook with clues that take them all over New York City.

Here is a much better summary from Booklist:

In their third collaboration, Rachel Cohn and David Levithan present another clever New York romance. Levithan writes the chapters narrated by Dash, a “bookish” 16-year-old spending Christmas break alone. He finds a red moleskin notebook amid the shelves of the Strand bookstore. “Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?” asks Cohn’s Lily in the first coded message of the notebook, with an invitation to respond. Lily is aglow with the yuletide and devastated that her parents are spending the holidays in Fiji. Armed with anonymity, Dash and Lily exchange the notebook in various locations around the Big Apple, filling it with their greatest hopes and deepest fears, and ultimately find themselves falling in love. Not surprisingly, the young pair’s perceptions of each other don’t entirely reflect reality; Dash’s ex asks if he is in love with the girl writing in the book or the girl he is picturing in his head. The spirit of the season amplifies Dash and Lily’s loneliness and heightens the connection between them, in another surefire hit from the creators of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2006).

My only complaint is that I am flying through it -- I wish I could make it last longer! It is a great read and so much fun to see where Dash and Lily's clues take them next.

Books like this make for a bittersweet reading experience -- they are so good, they're over before you know it. How do you feel about books that suck you in and make you want to gallop to the finish? Inquiring minds want to know!

xoxo,
bex