What Makes You Want to Read a Book? Make a Friend? Fall in Love?

Two things I'm thinking about this morning. 1) At my sister and brother-in-law's holiday party over the weekend, when they put an advance copy of I Remember Youout on display, two teenage girls immediately started to read it--standing up, eating canapés all the while. "I must get this," each one said. Very cheering, of course, but also made me wonder, What specific thing about the book drew them in? The picture on the cover? The voice on the first page? The promise that it was going to be a love