Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist - by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

        Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

                      "Life fails. Songs don't always." 

        We anchor memories to music without even trying. Certain songs drive us out of the current moment to another time and place; sometimes for good, sometimes… not-so-good. But it's rare when we're conscious enough to pay attention and see each moment as a note, each event as a song, each connection with another person as a soundtrack. And if we're lucky, something --- or someone --- forces us to tune in and know when it's time to jam along with where the music is taking us.

        In NICK & NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST, Rachel Cohn and David Levithan introduce us to Nick O'Leary and Norah Silverberg, two teens whose lives revolve around music to such an extent that it becomes the compass that guides their direction. Nick, the straight bass player in a as stated in the book " a queercore band" and Norah, the straight-edged, ambiguously neurotic daughter of a music industry executive. 

And then starts a full-on saturday naught adventure full of concerts and of course the music that fits on every moment.

"Everyone in this room is connected, except Norah - she’s the kind of statue they don’t ever make, a statue of someone totally defeated".

The first thing that I liked about the book was that it is told by the prospective of both- Nick with introspection and optimism and a Norah who juggles self-doubt and unyielding confidence with a precision.

And the second thing - "the language of music" that follows around, stating the various events with a song to justify and overall ending up with a great playlist.

But, sadly that's about it. There's really no great moment in the book and nothing that would make me read it again, but I would certainly like to try the playlist involved.

Conclusion: NICK & NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST lays down a beat that drives you from cover to cover and invites you to pay attention to the soundtrack that envelops your own life: it's the best way to tell who's there to sing back-up and who's up for a duet

Music "la musique"

       Does this ever happen to you, when you listen to a song you relate to somehow, the manner or things in which you relate to it, those moments flash through your mind with the song still playing as a background score, your life's moments in flashes come across like a video with that same song playing as the soundtrack to it and you just sitting by summing it all up,by all I mean your experiences, your mood, the way you feel,all in the song.











There are better ways than just words to describe emotions and the most beautiful of them is 'music' - be it with lyrics or without, it gives you an exact idea idea of the mood setting, the feel of the surrounding, the things the musician is trying to express through this beautiful representative art.





        Sometimes when words are simply not enough to lay the correct amount of emphasis on the way we feel, like if you are sad, its just not enough to say, you are sad, you might just accompany it with the saddest symphony or may be even 'rock' may help you :) Another example might be of the song by James Brown - "I Feel Good" which would be simply incomplete if not followed by the 'tadada' music to express it in its full and utmost form.

         A beautiful melody perfectly gelled in with the magical words to describe the mood is just what is required sometimes to represent emotions the best, which is why we say that " la musique est le miroir à une âme" ie "music is the mirror to one's soul."




          From very simple statements or emotions or feeling like feeling good, love, soothing, rage, anger, to other more and more complex emotions and relationships can be composed through music.Its Fascinating to trace how music has so much power to express feelings. Music from a very early period has always been revolutionary in its nature and will always continue to amaze us by being so.....