The Kid Table by Andrea Seigel

The Kid Table by Andrea Seigel

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I liked this book until the ending. It kind of fell off-not really a cliff hanger-it just stopped. It is the story of 5 cousins each the only child of his/her family. They don't live in the same city but their families get together about five times a year and somehow the kid table that they are forced to sit at together appears at each event. Suddenly the oldest kid is not longer force to sit at the kid table as she brings her boyfriend from college to their uncle's "coming of age" party. The boyfriend becomes smitten with the main character, Ingrid, and over the course of the next four family events he is there mixing up her feelings, but doesn't go too far with it. I was really hoping for a different ending. I would have given it four stars but the ending...



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Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I loved this book! Read it if you haven't. It is fun and sweet and snarky. Naomi and Ely have been friends forever. They live in NY in the same apartment building. Ely lives with his moms and Naomi's parents are divorced after her dad had an affair with one of Ely's moms. Now Naomi and Ely are in their first year at NYU and have trademarked a No Kiss List, which lists all the boys that neither of them can kiss. But Ely breaks the rule when he kisses Naomi's current boyfriend and Noami refuses to forgive or talk to him. Still Naomi is hoping that Ely will someday marry her but Ely has no desire to marry Naomi or any girl for that matter. The trick now is for Naomi to recognized that and for Ely and Naomi to become friends again.



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Along for the Ride

Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Even though I am old-I can still relate to the 17 year old character in this book. Really, reading young adult books makes me feel like a teenager, of course until my kids start demanding dinner. Anyway, Auden heads to the beach to spend the summer with her dad, his young wife and new baby. Auden is a late bloomer but no fear there is a cute boy in the town who is willing to help her on her quest to do all the things a 17 year old should do or should have done already. It is a sweet, clean story. My mom would approve because there are not pages of x-rated stuff.



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YA Best Books-Romance

Cohn, Rachel & Levithan, David. (2010). Dash and Lily's Book Of Dares.
Cohn and Levithan team up again after the success of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist to write a book that is from two perspectives sharing the same experience.  Lily leaves a red notebook hidden on the shelves  in her favorite bookstore in New York City with a message to the person who finds it and opens it.  Lily's intriguing message is this, "I've left some clues for you. If you want them, turn the page.  If you don't, put the book back on the shelf, please." (p.4).  Who can resist this temptation, certainly not Dash. 

Dash and Lily trade the book back and forth with clues that send them all over New York City for two weeks.  They learn about each other through the clues, the places they are sent, and the people they meet, but oddly they never meet in person.  Just when it seems that the whole experiment has runs its course, much to their dismay, fate plays its hand.


Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist