book 60

dude, i totally read this book more than a week ago. i have to keep a blog for one of my classes thsi semester, and i'm finding myself fully unable to keep up with two at once.

nick and norah's infinite playist, david leviathan and rachel cohn
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i usually hate co-authored books, but this one was awesome. it's a YA book, supposedly. here's the premise: nick (written by leviathan) sees his ex-girlfriend at one of his shows with a new guy, and he asks norah (written by cohn) to be his girlfriend for five minutes. all sorts of hijinks ensue. my only beef is that these kids get to just stay out all night even though they still live with their parents. what's up with that? i don't even get to stay out all night when i go to visit my parents, and i'm an adult. maybe it's a new jersey/new york thing. i don't know. but it's like those christopher pike books i read when i was eleven. NO ONE EVER HAD PARENTS! IT'S LIKE THERE WERE NO PARENTS. it used to bother me more than the murders and stuff.

book 59

oh, how sad. i hope my pace isn't always this slow during the semester.

but enough about me, jancee dunn


dunn started writing for rolling stone back in 1989 and also worked a few other jobs (vj for mtv2, us weekly correspondent for good morning america, and maybe some others), so she has lots of good stories to tell about celebrities she's interviewed. these little snippets are interspersed with the "real" chapters of this memoir, which tell the story of dunn's life. while the anecdotes about celebrities are often laugh-out-loud funny (especially at the beginning), i think that i liked the stuff about dunn's real life more. you know i'm a sucker for an ordinary girl memoir. but all of it is smoothly written and very readable, and i particularly love that the acknowledgements page is written like a last will and testament in a high school yearbook.