"The Notebook"

This is probably one of the most famous modern love stories out there. I don't think that I have personally met a girl that has not at least heard of "The Notebook" by Nicholas Sparks. It came out in film in 2004, and the movie is outrageously good...but, as is the case in most book-turned-movie situations, the book is different than the movie. If you haven't heard of it then here is a brief recap: Allie and Noah spend a wonderful summer together as teenagers and experience a love that few ever do. At the end of the summer Allie leaves and they never make contact again. Fourteen years later Allie is engaged and right before the wedding decides that she has to see Noah. So she tracks him down in the town where they first met and it only takes a few moments of being with him before she realizes that the love she had for him never really went away, and it comes back full-force.

The book focuses more on their relationship as adults, rather than the movie which is more about the summer that they spent falling in love. It draws on that time they spent together, but it is only memories. Instead, the book concentrates on Allie and Noah reconnecting after Allie decides to track him down before her wedding. The book is almost all about the few days that they get to spend together before Lon, Allie's fiancé, comes chasing after her.

If you have seen the movie,then you know that the 'notebook' is a book that contains Allie and Noah's love story that is read by an old man to an old woman in a retirement home. So the book bounces between this old couple, and Allie and Noah. It has A LOT more information about this older couple than the movie shows, and it makes the story so much richer. You really, truly fall in love with these older characters and they have so much life to them.

This book is absolutely one of the most romantic books that I have ever read. It's a love story that knows no boundaries and it seems that there is nothing in this world that can keep these two apart. It's the type of love that all romantics hope to find in real life. The book is written very well, and it should only take a few days to get through. There is some sexuality in it, about two pages worth, so it's brief. Maybe keep this one for older readers though just to be one the safe side. If you want to find yourself lost in a book, then this is the perfect one to sweep you away and take your mind off of the real world. If you enjoy this one then you definitely need to read "The Wedding", also by Nicholas Sparks. It is kind of like the sequel to "The Notebook" and it will be on here next. :)