Just finished Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (Rachel Cohn and David Levithan) – the book, not the movie. For a sensory-loaded one like this, I trust my imagination more than the creative prowess and technical expertise of the movie people. I hate emotions being spoon-fed by films when you can feel it for yourself and do a better job. I can relate myself more to Nick than to Norah, having made playlists for my “Salvatore”.
Okay, a rundown of events: Nick is the bass god of a queercore band who was dumped by Tris, who happened to be the frienemy of Norah (daughter of big music exec who legally added the h in her name in veneration of Norah Jones) but Nick doesn’t know that the girls know each other. Norah already knows Nick by the playlists he gave Tris and the songs he wrote for her, but she doesn’t krnow he is that Nick when he asked her to be his girlfriend for five minutes to avoid looking like a loser when Tris and his new victim approaches them at the club where Nick plays. Then the night unfolds and ends in an ice room in the Marquis in midtown Manhattan in their quest to get over their exes and find connection in each others’ life, love, and music. Bonus: for a change, it is the boy who danced in the rain here. About damn time. Be drowned by band drama, cool cursing (if there is such a thing), and music. And newfound appreciation for the name Salvatore.
Nick: When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to? When the club closes or when everyone leaves?
Norah: It’s over when you decide it’s over. When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us.
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Issa’s Infinite Reading List of Books turned into Movies/TV Series (Reviews to come when I feel like it)
Alice Sebold’s the Lovely Bones (watched it, haven’t read it)
Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire (of the True Blood series)
Darren Shan’s Cirque Du Freak - A Living Nightmare (the first book, to see why they skipped it and put the Vampire’s Assistant on the big screen)
Neil Gaiman’s Coraline (cute!)
Cecily von Ziegesar’s The It Girl (Gossip Girl spin-off featuring Jenny Humphrey, my designer alter-ego)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ Love in the Time of Cholera (great movie reviews, I’m sure the book’s better)
Nicholas Sparks’ The Last Song (only because I used to watch Hannah Montana before she became the Hannah Montana and I cried when I read Message in a Bottle but got bored with its film adaptation)
Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson Book 2 – The Sea of Monsters (just because)
Stephen King’s Carrie and The Mist (to be disturbed by a film like that, it can only come from Stephen King)
Sue Grafton’s Alphabet Murders (I know, I know, it’s not YET a movie, but it’s only a matter of time until producers will realize how cute and mysterious and talented and charming Kinsey Millhone is, especially in Q is for Quarry)
Okay, a rundown of events: Nick is the bass god of a queercore band who was dumped by Tris, who happened to be the frienemy of Norah (daughter of big music exec who legally added the h in her name in veneration of Norah Jones) but Nick doesn’t know that the girls know each other. Norah already knows Nick by the playlists he gave Tris and the songs he wrote for her, but she doesn’t krnow he is that Nick when he asked her to be his girlfriend for five minutes to avoid looking like a loser when Tris and his new victim approaches them at the club where Nick plays. Then the night unfolds and ends in an ice room in the Marquis in midtown Manhattan in their quest to get over their exes and find connection in each others’ life, love, and music. Bonus: for a change, it is the boy who danced in the rain here. About damn time. Be drowned by band drama, cool cursing (if there is such a thing), and music. And newfound appreciation for the name Salvatore.
Nick: When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to? When the club closes or when everyone leaves?
Norah: It’s over when you decide it’s over. When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us.
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Issa’s Infinite Reading List of Books turned into Movies/TV Series (Reviews to come when I feel like it)
Alice Sebold’s the Lovely Bones (watched it, haven’t read it)
Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire (of the True Blood series)
Darren Shan’s Cirque Du Freak - A Living Nightmare (the first book, to see why they skipped it and put the Vampire’s Assistant on the big screen)
Neil Gaiman’s Coraline (cute!)
Cecily von Ziegesar’s The It Girl (Gossip Girl spin-off featuring Jenny Humphrey, my designer alter-ego)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ Love in the Time of Cholera (great movie reviews, I’m sure the book’s better)
Nicholas Sparks’ The Last Song (only because I used to watch Hannah Montana before she became the Hannah Montana and I cried when I read Message in a Bottle but got bored with its film adaptation)
Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson Book 2 – The Sea of Monsters (just because)
Stephen King’s Carrie and The Mist (to be disturbed by a film like that, it can only come from Stephen King)
Sue Grafton’s Alphabet Murders (I know, I know, it’s not YET a movie, but it’s only a matter of time until producers will realize how cute and mysterious and talented and charming Kinsey Millhone is, especially in Q is for Quarry)
