Queens and Playlists

Last week, or possibly the week before that, I read two books on my trip to and from Montreal. That's what happens when you get stuck in O'Hare International for way too many hours.

Queen of Babble in the Big City picks up not long after Queen of Babble ended. Lizzie has moved to NYC and miraculously ends up moving in with her darling boyfriend Luke. But Lizzie's life is far from perfect; she can't imagine life without Luke but she might have to when she sticks her foot in it one too many times. She's got one too many jobs and the job she loves she doesn't exactly get paid to do. Also, Lizzie's friends aren't having the best time of it either. But otherwise, things are great.

I thought this was a great follow-up to the first book. I can only hope that Meg is writing another book in this series because this one left us with quite the cliffhanger.


I also read Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (and how awesome is it that David and John Green are getting their book published? Really awesome!) Anyway, this book is the story of one night in the lives of Nick and Norah. See, Nick is a musician with this ex-girlfriend that he's still a bit hung up on. So, he asks Norah to be his "five minute" girlfriend to shake off Tris (his ex). Only Nick doesn't know that Tris and Norah are friends. Or that Norah is sort of the girl of his dreams. And Norah's a bit floored too.

I thought this book was pretty great. Cohn and Levitahn take turns writing chapters with Cohn writing Norah's chapters and Levithan writing Nick's. I liked how they made the night so long but that you got to see into the minds of both main characters and understand where they were coming from. This book has a lot of the cursing but that doesn't bother me.

Books Read in 2007:

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist ~ Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Queen of Babble in the Big City ~ Meg Cabot
Devilish ~ Maureen Johnson
Eclipse ~ Stephenie Meyer
New Moon ~ Stephenie Meyer
Twilight ~ Stephenie Meyer
The Key to the Golden Firebird ~ Maureen Johnson
Enna Burning ~ Shannon Hale
Fool Moon ~ Jim Butcher
Queen of Babble ~ Meg Cabot
The Goose Girl ~ Shannon Hale
The Princess Academy ~ Shannon Hale
Avalon High ~ Meg Cabot
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ~ J.K. Rowling
A Thousand Splendid Suns ~ Khaled Hosseini
The Bermudez Triangle ~ Maureen Johnson
Fray ~ Joss Whedon
The Dragonriders of Pern ~ Anne McCaffery
Embroideries ~ Marjane Satrapi
13 Little Blue Envelopes ~ Maureen Johnson
The Cider House Rules ~ John Irving
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ~J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ~ J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ~ J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ~ J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ~ J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ~ J.K. Rowling
The Good Men: A Novel of Heresy ~ Charmaine Craig
An Abundance of Katherines ~ John Green
The Count of Monte Cristo ~ Alexandre Dumas
Looking For Alaska ~ John Green
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest ~ Stephen Ambrose
Drinking, Smoking, and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times ~ edited by Sara Nikles
Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood ~ Ann Brashares