Dream Teams
I'm the last to know, as always, but I can't help commenting on the news that Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is going to be made into a movie! Starring Michael Cera! And Kat Denning! Exclamation point-o-rama! Even with its traded first-person narratives, the book does have a cinematic feel and I look forward to seeing how it plays on the big screen, as well as what the actors do with their roles.
I heard about that just after finishing Cohn and Levithan's Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List. I'm undecided about that book, actually. I liked it, definitely. But loved it? Maybe not. I'm a sucker for the point of view of born-and-raised New York City teenagers, and the supporting characters were fabulous. Very well fleshed out. Still, there was something missing for me. Perhaps Naomi's prickliness set the off-putting tone for me? I did especially enjoy Bruce #2 and his slow slide into love with Ely. Bruce is such a fresh voice and strikes me as entirely genuine. The way Ely changes and grows because of him is lovely as well as believable.
If I may compare N&N with N&E, I'd have to say that I liked the main characters better in the former title, and the supporting characters in the latter. Plus Nick and Norah, to me, was a whole lot sexier. By my calculations, if we're lucky enough to get a third collaboration from Cohn and Levithan, it should be a perfect book.
In continuation with my inadvertent gay protagonist streak, the next book on my to-read pile is Perry Moore's Hero. I've heard great things about this one, and it looks like I'll be squeezing it in wherever I can between baseball championship games.
Go Sox!
Written material © 2007 Dawn Emerman
dawn, hero is waiting for me at the library and n&e is my treat for next week when matt and callum are out of town! i love that we are always reading the same books!
Posted by: amanda | October 11, 2007 at 09:41 AM
ha! that's great. it will be interesting to see how michael cera plays it. i'm hoping he turns out to be great and can do more than just his one-note. because i love him. aww
Posted by: meredith | October 11, 2007 at 11:28 PM
also: I'm so excited for "Juno", Ellen Page is a genious (I body-doubled for her once, which is really weird), and Michael Cera and Jason Bateman are together again... plus a whole lot of other neat people
Posted by: meredith | October 11, 2007 at 11:32 PM