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Just finished The Last Song. I enjoyed it. Hopefully I’ll see the movie next week, it’s always fun to compare them.

I finally finished Dear John. The movie coming out was motivation. I really really enjoyed it. I was expecting a sad ending with how the book started, but definitely not that ending. Emotional as always, but in a good way.

I picked up The Last Song at the book store the otehr dya and will start that soon.

Read A Bend In The Road the other night. =]

I will definitely be reading The Last Song ASAP in September. At first I wasn’t sure how I felt about Miley having Nicholas Sparks right the book for her basically, but I’m looking forward to it none the less. I like her alot, and she seems really into the project, so. =]

Now just to get the other done before then. I can. I need to catch up on my book goal. I don’t think it will happen. =/

I totally didn’t get anywhere on dear John past the first few pages. I started The Choice yesterday and finished it today. The upside to being sick is you have plenty of time to read. I really liked Travis. This novel does not stand out as one of my favorites of his though.

I love Nicholas Sparks’ books. I am becoming an avid reader and rarely am moved to tears by a male author, but find I am always reaching for the tissues when I read a N.S. book. He writes the sort of tear-jerking love stories I love, and he writes them with a great deal of passion and emotion, creating wonderful characters that feel so real.

This plot centers around two people who meet and fall in love and the choices and promises they make to each other during their relationship.

At thirty-two, Travis Parker is a confirmed bachelor. All three of his best friends are married with kids, and their wives have fixed him up with every single woman they encounter, no matter how much he wished they wouldn’t. Why would he want to get married? He has it all—a great job, a full life and a beautiful house in a small town in North Carolina with a gorgeous river view,a boat and a motorcycle.

Nothing is missing in his life, or so he thinks until Gabby Holland moves in next door. The beautiful redhead, though standoffish and downright rude at first, intrigues him from the very beginning, and he doesn’t let a small detail like her boyfriend stand in the way of getting to know her better.

I don’t want to tell too much (but this seemingly simple (at first) love story is heart wrenching and memorable… My breath caught in my chest as I read the epilogue. I loved it. This love story is wonderful!

The main character in The Lucky One is ex-Marine, Logan Thibault. Logan has served three tours of duty in Iraq as a Marine and believes his survival is due to a lucky picture he found of an unknown woman.

On his first tour deployed in Iraq, he found a photo that help brought him through that tour and two more. He is obsessed with the picture of the girl standing by the ferris wheel and sets out to find her.

Logan Thibault is an easy-going and charming man who walks cross-country accompanied by Zeus (his dog) to find the mystery woman in the picture. Once he arrives in North Carolina, he takes a job at a dog training facility where he meets Nana, the elderly owner of the facility, Elizabeth (‘Beth’), her granddaughter and her young son, Ben. Elizabeth, as he discovers is the woman in his lucky picture.

After reading this book, you can’t help but wonder, who is the lucky one in the story? In my opinion, there are several lucky ones in this story. It’s amazing how a story simply based on a photograph can unfold into such a beautiful work of fiction. If you are a Nicholas Sparks fan, you seriously won’t be disappointed.

Julie Berenson is a young widow at 25 years of age, and her husband left her with two unexpected gifts. He left her with a Great Dane puppy named Singer and the promise that he would always be watching over her. Now, four years later, twenty-nine-year-old Julie is far too young to never have love again.

Julie decides that after of a couple years of grieving her husband’s death that it is time to start dating again. This is when Julie meets Richard Franklin; a nice, hard working man who soon falls madly in love with her. Julie is not so sure about Richard though; there is just something about him, that isn’t right to her. When Richard gets back from a business trip Julie brakes up with him. After the brake up Julie realizes that, she likes her best friend Mike Harris. Mike is a down-to-earth really loving guy, who was her deceased husband’s best friend.

While Mike and Julie fall deeper into their growing relationship, weird things start to happen to Julie…

I really enjoyed this book. It has suspense, romance, and anything else you can imagine. The end of The Guardian is a real cliff hanger. I couldn’t but the book down. I thought that it was absolutely fantastic; I would mainly recommend this book to women, who have already read any of Nicholas Sparks’s books or prefer romance novels, as I do. Sparks is an amazing writer and all of his books are so amazing! I always feel like I am there in the story with the extremely well developed characters. Sooo, if you enjoy feeling involved in the story, Nicholas will put you in the story as you read it!

I have never read a book that actually made me feel almost every emotion. I cried, laughed, and just couldn’t put it down because I had to find out what happened next. I just can’t explain it into words, but I just LOVE this book. I have read it several of Spark’s novels and I believe this is one of the best so far. It surprised me with the added bonus of suspense with his typical romance.

Nights in Rodanthe

I really enjoyed it. I am a SAP for romance so NIGHTS IN RODANTHE was just my cup of tea. Better, break out the Kleenex because this one’s a tear-jerker. I can’t wait for the soon to be released movie.

Adrienne Willis takes care of a friend’s inn in Rodanthe, North Carolina just after her touch with heartache. Her husband has just left her for a younger woman and she leaves for a short time to recollect herself and do her friend Jean, who is gone to attend a wedding, a favor. Once at the inn she breaks down and then meets Dr. Paul Flanner, who is the only guest this time of year at the inn, and the two become instantly attracted to each other. Paul is a 54 year old surgeon, divorced, with one son who detests him. Just recently retired after selling his established practice, he is now planning to move to Ecuador to serve as a missionary doctor along side of his son.

This is the story Adrienne’s tells to her daughter Amanda, who recently lost her husband Brent from testicular cancer. Amanda is caring for her two sons AND having great difficulty trying to get over her husband’s death at the same time, and it is very hard to accept the fact that he was really dead.

Adrienne tries to help Amanda through this situation by telling her a story about when she was forty-five of her and Paul’s days in Rodanthe and it all comes back- her youth, feeling desirable, worthy of being loved, delayed happiness and the feeling that is captured in the air when love is felt within the heart.

Adrienne and Paul both realize that they have been searching for each other for all of their lives and were finally drawn together in Rodanthe by fate. They part with great pain as friends and lovers, vowing to correspond since she is unable to leave her children and move to Ecuador. They decide to stay in touch my mail until he would return in a year.

Then tragedy strikes… NIGHTS IN RODANTHE will certainly touch your heart and warm your soul. This is a story that I will ALWAYS remember. It gave me the chills and then mad me cry for all the bitter sweet moments where love was there AND then gone. A tender story of love, family and the way fate plays a huge part in the entire scheme of life and our own expectations.

This book is totally wonderful. Nicholas Sparks is an excellent writer, and this is one of his best books.

I totally loved this sequel to The Notebook … maybe loved it even more! Whether or not you have read The Notebook will have no impact on your enjoyment of this book.

This story picks up with the children of Allie and Noah. The widow Noah continues to reside in Creekside Extended Care Facility. This is the story of Noah’s daughter Jane and her husband North Carolina attorney Wilson. He has been married to Jane for thirty years. Although Wilson’s love had continued to grow over the years, He manages to forget their 29th anniversary and thats just the way their marriage has been going lately… he’s been neglecting Jane and the family for years. Jane feels extremely abandoned, and has even begun to fall out of love with Wilson. Wilson realizes this is his fault, because he has concentrated on his job over the years, and in addition, has trouble communicating his feelings. Wilson embarks upon a year long program to win back the love of his wife.

The road to the conclusion is unexpected, and very tender. All husbands could take a lesson from Wilson as he tries to find a way to make Jane fall in love with him all over again.

I highly recommend this wonderful book. It’s a book you’ll want to read again and again. It will leave you feeling really good, so it’s great when life isn’t as perfect as you’d like.

Although almost all of Nicholas Sparks’ books are magnificent, this one is really special, and very romantic. Be prepared to shed a few tears along the way to inspiring finale.

I am addicted to all of Nicholas Sparks’ books; this was the fifth one I had read. They are just so totally tender and romantic I can sit for hours, reading one of his books. I absolutely love them.

He brings back two characters from his beloved bestseller, True Believer, in this continuing saga of extraordinary love, with many surprising twists, and a diverse range of interesting characters, I especially love Lexie’s character!

There are few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he’d never do: leave New York City; AND never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and most of all, never become a father. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of his life, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. However, just as his life seems to be settling into a blissful pattern, an unsettling and mysterious email message re-opens old wounds and sets off a chain of events that will forever change the course of this young couple’s planned marriage.

This was a fantastic book. It was very well written, touching and especially bittersweet. Sparks is a true literary genius, if you have not read him (yet), be sure to pick up True Believer first, this is the sequel. The ending is a big surprise and leaves the reader a bit shocked.