Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares Rachel Cohn & David Levithan These are two great authors who wrote one of my favorite books (possibly of all time, although can’t tell for sure; but it’s up there) which also got turned into a movie which I also loved, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. I have yet to finish Naomi & Ely’s No Kiss List, so maybe that’ll be next on my book pile. But for now I want to talk about this book. THIS BOOK. So many feelings.  Like Let It Snow, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares was also set around the holidays. Here’s the thing I’ve noticed about myself during the holidays when everyone’s getting kissed under the mistletoe and I’m in a corner stuffing my face with leftover Halloween candy: I always imagine the characters in the book I’m reading to be actual living people.  I can imagine Lily, this optimistic, Christmas-loving, lebkuchen cookie-baking girl actually scribbling on a red notebook. Or she could be at the Strand, talking to her cousin, asking him to do this one tiny favor. Then threatens him if he refuses. I can see this actually happening. I can picture Dash hunched over, talking to his dad, annoyed and just a tad snarly. I can see him getting hugs from Boomer, and he actually likes it. Or him going to the supermarket because he ran out of yogurt. I can see someone just like Dash actually doing all of this. Cohn & Levithan create these characters that I instantly connect with and fall for. After reading the book I secretly wished to meet someone like Lily, who’ll bake me cookies or take me with her to walk dogs when I’m feeling down; or maybe someone as articulate as Dash, who, even if he’s only just met me, would make sure I got some safe and not leave me all alone in a party just because some guy couldn’t get in my pants. If anything, I wish I was there to witness the story unfold between them.  The book was amazing, I wanted more! I wanted to know what happened next. I wanted to know what didn’t. I wanted to keep reading and falling in love with them. But the book had to end somewhere or else it’ll end up as massive as the unabridged OED. (Book inside joke, sorry?) I will say this though: Cohn and Levithan can do no wrong in my book. And now I am so very tempted to go to Barnes & Noble, leave a red notebook with very specific instructions, and wait. Because sometimes the waiting is the best part.  Some lines that I adored: It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest. I want to believe that, despite all the evidence to the contrary, there is reason to hope. Now could someone please tell me how much it is to make my own Muppet? Maybe I should ask Boomer.

Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares

Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

These are two great authors who wrote one of my favorite books (possibly of all time, although can’t tell for sure; but it’s up there) which also got turned into a movie which I also loved, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. I have yet to finish Naomi & Ely’s No Kiss List, so maybe that’ll be next on my book pile. But for now I want to talk about this book. THIS BOOK. So many feelings. 

Like Let It Snow, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares was also set around the holidays.

Here’s the thing I’ve noticed about myself during the holidays when everyone’s getting kissed under the mistletoe and I’m in a corner stuffing my face with leftover Halloween candy: I always imagine the characters in the book I’m reading to be actual living people. 

I can imagine Lily, this optimistic, Christmas-loving, lebkuchen cookie-baking girl actually scribbling on a red notebook. Or she could be at the Strand, talking to her cousin, asking him to do this one tiny favor. Then threatens him if he refuses. I can see this actually happening.

I can picture Dash hunched over, talking to his dad, annoyed and just a tad snarly. I can see him getting hugs from Boomer, and he actually likes it. Or him going to the supermarket because he ran out of yogurt. I can see someone just like Dash actually doing all of this.

Cohn & Levithan create these characters that I instantly connect with and fall for. After reading the book I secretly wished to meet someone like Lily, who’ll bake me cookies or take me with her to walk dogs when I’m feeling down; or maybe someone as articulate as Dash, who, even if he’s only just met me, would make sure I got some safe and not leave me all alone in a party just because some guy couldn’t get in my pants. If anything, I wish I was there to witness the story unfold between them. 

The book was amazing, I wanted more! I wanted to know what happened next. I wanted to know what didn’t. I wanted to keep reading and falling in love with them. But the book had to end somewhere or else it’ll end up as massive as the unabridged OED. (Book inside joke, sorry?)

I will say this though: Cohn and Levithan can do no wrong in my book.

And now I am so very tempted to go to Barnes & Noble, leave a red notebook with very specific instructions, and wait.

Because sometimes the waiting is the best part. 

Some lines that I adored:

It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.

I want to believe that, despite all the evidence to the contrary, there is reason to hope.

Now could someone please tell me how much it is to make my own Muppet? Maybe I should ask Boomer.