I spent the day skirting cuddly couples kissing against lockers and giggly girls carrying heaps of carnations. Vincent Millay, were decorated with heart-shaped pink balloons and tacky plastic cupids. And most of all, I despise Valentine’s Day.įebruary fourteen of my junior year was especially rough. I hate bouquets of roses, boxes of chocolate, and Jessica Simpson ballads. I’m happiest wearing a charcoal zip-up hoodie and vintage jeans, not some floaty pastel dress with kitten-heeled mules. I don’t believe in love at first sight or destiny or soul mates. Don’t read this looking for some insightful views on books and reading, but if you’re in need of a quick, cute read about high school crushes, this book is good for you.

How many more interesting secrets will she find out about her book club members before she can finally snag James…if she can get him?A NOVEL IDEA is 10% books and 90% typical high school awkward love. This plan involves her writing herself a love note and letting James see it, sending herself flowers, and so on.However, Norah soon realizes that this is real life, not a perfect fictional world, and that many things can go wrong with her plan-and go wrong they do. But due to her lack of experience with members of the opposite sex, Norah resorts to copying the male-snagging methods of a protagonist from a trashy romance novel, her guilty pleasure. A group of arbitrary people arrive at the café the Book Nook the first day: Audre, Norah’s cooking-loving best friend Scott, the gay friend Francesca, a hot senior whose popular-girl attitude doesn’t seem to fit with why she joined the book club Neil, mistaking the club for a sci-fi group and James, Neil’s best friend.Norah immediately feels a connection with the book-loving James as they converse easily. Junior bookworm Norah Bloom is short on extracurriculars for her college resume, so she decides to start a book club.

A Novel Idea by Aimee Friedman