The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
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Book Reviews of The Notebook
Book Review: Follow Your Heart
Summary: 5 Stars
Sometimes following your heart is not the easiest thing to do. People tend to follow their mind rather than listening to their heart, like Allie Nelson. Through a major betrayal by her mother she had to find her true love once again. Although the Notebook has a heavy life lesson for all of us, you will find it to be a very enjoyable read. It is fast paced and allows you to look at the effects one decision can make on your whole life.
The wealthy family of Allie Nelson has moved from her summerhouse in Raleigh, North Carolina to Charleston, North Carolina. After spending the whole summer with her new love, Noah Calhoun, she is being forced by her parents to move back. Since Allie had to move back, Noah enlisted in the army and despite efforts to keep in touch, his letters go unread. He goes 15 years without a single word from Allie, and then she shows up one day, only to inform him that she is engaged. Although Allie is engaged, spending a couple of days together was all it took for them to fall in love once again. Allie's fiancé, Lonny shows up, and she leaves Noah only guessing if he will win her over in the end.
It is through this surprising event that Allie is forced to choose between her first true love, Noah, or her current fiancé, Lonny. She finds that only her heart can make the decision of whose heart she is going to break so that she can move forward with her life.
Sometimes some of the most important lessons are learned through the expense of heartache. Nicholas Sparks gives us a chance to reflect on how following your heart is the best thing to do, even if it isn't the easiest. As you are reading this book, you feel as though you are the one falling in love and making all the tough decisions. This book will really touch your heart. It touched mine, and I wont lie, this book made me cry, more than once. It is such a magnificent book that I would definitely read it again.
This book is great for high school students who are beginning to have relationships and are falling in love. It is also a good book for adults to read by showing what companionship and love really means. If you like exciting love stories with happy endings, then you will definitely love this book. After reading this book, you may have a new favorite book, and it will be very, very hard book to beat.
Book Review: Absolutely Breathtaking
Summary: 5 Stars
The novel The Notebook is absolutely breathtaking. The Notebook is certainly not your average romance novel, and it is much more complex and realistic than any love story I've ever read, as it truly brought tears to my eyes. Every part of the story was either amazing in how sweet the character's gestures towards one another were or heart-wrenching at some of the painful decisions they had to make and things they had to go through. I've never seen a more incredible picture painted of two people that were so truly, deeply in love.
As the plot of the novel moved slowly forward, I found myself savoring each sensory detail that was portrayed in every activity Noah and Allie did together. It was just amazing to me how Noah and Allie's love seemed to fly off the pages of the book and become something real, a part of me.
I felt that although I haven't been in love like that quite yet, I could relate to how Noah and Allie felt about the different problems they had to go through. I felt m heart breaking as Allie had to make her decision of if she was going to marry Lon, who her parents loved, or Noah, her true love that her parents did not approve of. I mistakened their frustration for my own when they couldn't be together.
When Noah and Allie's teenage love story ends abruptly and I was flashed forwards to an elderly man telling the story of his unstoppable passion for his wife who has Alzheimer's Disease, it all clicked that the elderly couple is Noah and Allie far into their future together, their love still gong strong. Noah is desperately trying to relieve Allie of her disease by reading her the story he wrote of their love in hopes she will recover and remember his name at least so they can love fully once more.
I have never felt so satisfied by an author's attempt at a dramatic twist in a plot or a twisted ending of a story, and I have never been so satisfied overall with a love story. As I closed the book and let my final tears fall, I cried and cried for Noah and Allie's incredible, beautiful and realistic love.
Book Review: Deatiled review about my favorite book
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a classic Nicholas Sparks love story, but one to last a lifetime! This is the kind of love we all long for, rather we have experienced it or not. The feeling that you can take on anything just because you have loved with all your heart. I have read several of the reviews and there are some inaccurate statements made in some of them.
This story is the story written in "The Notebook." This notebook is being read to Mrs. Hamilton by Duke. The Notebook contains the story of Allie and Noah. They meet one summer and have a summer long romance. The big conflict is that Allie is from a well-to-do family and is heading to college after the summer. Noah is the average small town guy, working at a lumberyard to make a living. A very improbable connection, but one that beats out the sparks of fireworks on fourth of july. Needless to say, Allie's family is all but impressed with Noah and takes Allie away early giving them no chance to say goodbye and leaving their last conversation to be a fight they had. Neither of them forget about their summer love and Noah writes to Allie to find no response back. Finally, he gives up on writing her and heads to join the army to fight the war. He returns safely and finds out that Allie is engaged to a weathy guy (of course, the new guy is much more suited to her family and lifestyle.) Yet, we learn that she too has not forgotten about Noah. In true Nicholas Sparks fashion, Allie goes back to visit Noah and realizes he is the one she truely loves. She breaks off the engagement and proceeds to spend her life with Noah. About this time in the reading of the story, Mrs. Hamilton realizes that she is in fact Allie Callhoun and the story is being read to her by her husband, Noah. Allie has altzheimer's and the only time she is able to recognize Noah and remember their improbable romance is on occasion when he is reading the notebook to her (that she wrote, by the way.)
It gives me chills just to recall this story and I absolutely love it!
Book Review: A True Expression of Everlasting Love; For Guys & Girls
Summary: 5 Stars
If I could rate this book on a scale from 1-10, I would give it a 12. Unfortunately, we can only give up to five stars.
Noah's love for Allie is inspiring. He proved that no matter what happens, he intended to keep the vows he made on their wedding day. "For better or for worse, in sickness and in health, as long as we both shall live." He never gave up on her. That is the kind of marriage every couple should have. The book is so passionate and real. You can relate to the everyday things that happen in the story, but you can also find the escape that every reader looks for in a good romance novel. Starting with the first page of this book, I was captivated by every word that I read. By the end, I was in uncontrollable tears and cried for a long time after finishing. However, I love good romance, and I love to cry. People EXPECT me to cry....Keep reading.
My husband is not the romantic type, and he is DEFINATELY not the reading type. However, he asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I told him that all I wanted was for him to read "The Notebook". I thought he could pick up a few ideas. He half-heartedly agreed and told me he would begin the following day. I was surprised at how quickly he was nearing the end so I sat beside him pretending to read a book of my own. Suddenly, I saw tears escaping his reddening eyes, and heard a faint sniffle from time to time. I can't tell you how much I wanted to know what part he was reading, but I sat quietly and waited for the end. After about ten minutes, he put the book down and, surprisingly, reached for my book and sat it down as well. He turned to me and stretched out his arms. I held him close while he cried, and I couldn't help but cry (and laugh to myself at the same time) to see my macho-man finally at his weakness.
Overall, I have to say this is a spectacular book.
Book Review: Sunday morning hangover
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay on this Sunday, i have to say that i woke up and quietly layed there...thinking of the movie last night. I started to cry, damnit and then i figured if i lie down any longer i would just keep it up..lol What is wrong with me? Then i decided to get my butt up and get to my office. I have some stuff to research for my husband, instead i turn on the damn computer and start the search @ Amazon for the book, "The Notebook." I swear, i had to know if this was based on actual events/people...although the copyright page says "fiction" - which of course can be because the names are changed - the backflap of the book says it was indeed based on the writer's wife's grandparents...awww.
As i read the sample pages-front cover to back cover and in between, my favorite part being page 2 of the excerpt...that same very part in the beginning of the movie, that sent me to immediate tears.
If any of you havent yet seen, "The Notebook," please get out and check it out... it is a great love story...a different kind of movie, one that i can say we needed for a long time!The wife in this movie is suffering from degenerative disease, i believe it to be Alzheimer's and the husband, wow, is so devoted to her and - to (periodically) bring her back to him, he reads from this notebook - that tells the story of their love..."their journal, their lovestory." Once in awhile she does comes to, as he reads, only to fall back into her demented state of mind, so heartbreaking...oh i better stop, you have to see it, read it...one or the other!!!!The latter is preobably much better.
And no you haven't had to love deeply before...seems like some of the hardest of hard, have been brought to tears by this heartwarming story, i have read some reviews by spouses of the reluctant...so very real, a must see & read for EVERYONE.