Holiday Book Recommendation: The Espressologist

I am a writer who is mighty attached to my mocha lattes...so when I heard about Kristina Springer's YA debut, THE ESPRESSOLOGIST (FSG, 2009), I couldn't wait to read it. The premise? A teenaged barista does some match-making with her customers, based on their favorite coffee drinks and ultimately, finds love of her own.

This book made me want to be sixteen again (just for a minute, because most of sixteen was traumatic) so that I could get all my friends together to read THE ESPRESSOLOGIST an...