Walk to Remember: Part 2

I am still reading A Walk to Remember and so far I am enjoying it. After watching the trailer, I can predict lots of the characters personalities. There are not some characters that are developed. But all the characters develop in their own way. (Especially the main characters) I understand the character's thought and a little of there past.

After some time the book started to slow down and get in every small detail. That style of writing is not what I can read. All of Nicholas Sparks Book’s, are very detailed. This book however, was very different from the rest. It was structured in only one of the characters perspective for multiple chapters in a row. Usually Sparks alternates so you can understand both sides. Being a in guy’s perspective for so long was very boring and blunt. He portrayed the guy checking out girls’ majority of the time and describing there “body structure”. I understand that, some guys think like that but I don’t think Sparks should write in that perspective/ topic for a long time.

Even though, I didn’t really enjoy the book, I really want to see the movie. Like I said before [in blog post 8], I watched the trailer and hope to enjoy the movie better. I went onto YouTube, and found lots of scenes people enjoyed in the movie. I particularly love the scene where he stands up for Jamie and is not afraid to be seen with her in public. That was when they’re connection sparked.

The scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dso2Tfye2q4

A Walk to Remember

      I stopped reading Delirium and switched to A Walk to Remember By: Nicholas Sparks. The reason I “dropped” the book Delirium was because it was going very slowly. I might pick it up again when I have time. It was a good book but dragged on for a long time.

      But A Walk to Remember is about this boy, Landon Carter who was a senior class of 1958. He didn't care about his future. He dated a few girls and told that he was in love. But he didn't expect it to be Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the church’s minister.

"Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it." 
— Nicholas Sparks (A Walk to Remember)

     Never expecting it to be the girl who was shy, quiet, kind and a girl who didn't care about clothes and makeup, because she wasn't his "type". But, he finds his way to fall in love with her anyway. Funny huh? Love comes to you in weird ways.

     I just started reading the book and I know I will love it. I love how Nicholas Sparks writes. He writes with emotions he’s experienced before; like pain, empathy, and affection. Writing your experiences is the best writing a reader can read, because we can connect to it and understand what the author/ characters go through.

"Without suffering, there'd be no compassion." 
— Nicholas Sparks (A Walk to Remember)

As I continue to read A Walk to Remember, I can’t wait to see what Nicholas Sparks has for me to read this time! 

Here is the Trailer to the Movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3b19svqbls

Delirium

I recently started a few pages in the book Delirium. It’s about a society where the government makes the citizens believe that the love is a terrible thing. Having sympathy and care for your children was terrible too. If you were happy and fell in love they would kill you or imprison you till death. There is this girl, it’s her turn to be examined by government officials to see if she has the “disease” but in the middle of her examination, and rebels break into the examination center and create havoc.

I have only read very little of this book but I really enjoy it. It sounds interesting, like the concept of the government controlling what the citizens think and the citizens don’t realize anything or can’t think for themselves. It is similar to the Hunger Games but the citizen realize what the government doing is wrong. But so far, I enjoy the book.

Some questions I have for the author are: What time period is this book set in? , Why does the main character’s friend acts all weird before her examination? , and who is the rebellions who break in? I need more information on the group. I can’t wait to read the rest of the book!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j51FvUbid_w here is the Trailer to the Movie! :)

The Last Song

                I recently read the book the The Last Song. The book was about a 17 year old girl named Veronica “Ronnie” whose parents are divorced and her father moved to Wilmington, North Carolina. Ronnie felt anger since her father left her. Her father was a former pianist and traveled to play at different places. He also taught to multiple students including Ronnie. The piano was part of her life when she was little. It was a thing she shared with her father. Once he left, she threw it into the past. She got accepted into Julliard, a high educational music school only the top best could get into. She is declined it because she never wanted to remember the past. The summer after senior year, her mother told her she had to go visit her father. Ronnie hated that, she didn’t want to see her father’s face after he left her. Her mother forced her and told her she had to go.

               When she got to her father’s house, she hated it at the beginning. She soon started to like it at her father’s place. She made friends, became closer to her father again and she met Will, her first love. She had fallen in love with the “beach hottie” and later she found out the he isn’t just good looks and personality. He has a story she could relate to. But when she first went to Wilmington she became friends with a girl nicknamed as Blaze. She wasn’t the nicest girl and she had friends who broke the law all the time. Like her “boyfriend” Marcus. He is ruthless, selfish, penurious, and alone. He always wanted to get Ronnie (just to use her) and tend to scare people away.

 Ronnie managed to get away from Marcus and change Blaze’s personality for the better. After having a wonderful summer, at the end of all the happiness, her father fell very ill. Ronnie soon began to unravel all the secrets her parents had kept from her and finally forgiven her father. Her father passed away at the end of the summer and in honor to keep his memory in her heart she attended Julliard. Her father and Ronnie’s dream came true. She moved back to New York and studied music while her love, Will moved the other direction to Vanderbilt. Separating was hard for them. It all happened while her father was sick which hurt Ronnie even more. At the end of the book Will and Ronnie had a happy ending. Will came to visit her in Julliard and came with a surprise. His mother let him change colleges to one in New York. He got to live with Ronnie and that was how she got the happiness she deserved.

I really enjoyed this book because it gave a message to the reader. Second Chances. I love this book. Nicholas Sparks is an amazing author and he has a way with words. When her father died, I became an emotional train wreck and poured down tears. If an author can do that with simple words, imagine how good the movie is! 

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZH0Nf4KLBo

Where She Went

“Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.” 

― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

After reading If I Stay, I read the Sequel, Where She Went.  Continuing on Alex and Mia’s love story, but after waking up, Mia decides to go to Julliard and leave Adam. He didn't take that to well. But years later, he got famous with his band, Shooting Stars and got a celebrity girlfriend. Mia and Alex always dream about each other and hope to see each other again and make amends. This story was told in Adam’s perspective and the first book was told in Mia’s perspective. I really enjoyed this book because it taught me a lesson, forgiving is hard, but becoming friends again or getting back together is harder.

               I think Forman portrayed the lesson/theme very well with Adam and Mia’s forgiveness. Even though it took most of the book, it was well worth it. It was very dramatic and descriptive. The drama is what makes the book interesting and romantic.

               I would recommend this book to readers who like romance and are patient. The book goes slow. Also it’s a very “cheesy” romance, but it’s cute. The book is very realistic and gives you a good view of reality for relationships, and people after high school. Overall, a lesson I learned from the entire series is that life throws you challenges, and no matter what you got to stick through and not let it stop you from your goal.

Quotes on the book: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/10706553-where-she-went

If I Stay

“Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.

I open my eyes wide now.
I sit up as much as I can.
And I listen.

Stay, he says.” (Goodreads, If I stay)

Mia has so many choices. She has lots of things in her mind. She can’t have it all. Her choices are hard, but one day all those choices are gone. She (along with her family) was on their way to see her grandparents, and relatives. On the way there, there car swerves and crashes near a ditch. Now all her choices she thought of before were wiped away from this crash. She has one choice now, let go and lose everyone and leave everyone behind, or fight through and wake up from her coma and see her loved ones.

I love this book because the author gives a good message behind the book. She explains how life can change within matters of seconds. One day you might have all the luxuries you could possibly have in the world, seconds later you could be in a life or death situation with nothing like Mia in the story.

           I am only half way through the book and I can already predict that she will get 
better but leave her loved ones behind. She gets a wonderful opportunity to join Julliard, a gifted school for musicians (all-girls school) and she chooses her school over her boyfriend (Adam), and her best friend (Kim). I would recommend this book to readers who enjoy Romance because this is a beautiful story of Romance.

Here is the movie trailer! I really loved it and can't wait to watch the movie! Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1L3-ovdBE4

The Watcher

I am currently reading the book The Watcher.  This is a genre I don't normally like to read but I tried to read this because the summary sounded interesting and different.

Every day, a girl sits in the corner and watches the people at the beach. She’s always watching, even when people notice her watching. It was a whole new level of “stalker”. She watches a boy take care of his 2 year old sister, playing at the beach, making sand mermaids. Also she sees a handsome lifeguard with a perfect tan and body. But no matter how closely she watches them, she can’t begin to notice there secrets and perfect facades of their lives aren’t actually true. She sees their outer personality but doesn’t understand their inner emotions. There backgrounds don’t seem as perfect as they do to her.

I really enjoyed what I have read so far in the book. It was intense and emotionally compelling. I have only read half of the book and already think it’s an amazing and suspenseful. This book is different, it gives the perspectives of the girl (the watcher), and the people she watches. They see her watching their every move and soon it begins to impact their lives.

The best thing I have read in this book so far is that the connection between the older brother and his baby sister. Their special relationship is so adorable. The older brother protects her, keeps her safe, and comforts her through their hard times. Like when their parents were going to get divorced, the brother comforted her because she never understood why. I've always wanted an older brother for that exact reason, so that’s how I connect with those characters.

I would suggest this book to people who like to read in different perspectives because it is like that. If you don’t understand it, then you can’t really read it. The book switches back and forth without letting you know. But a helpful way is to read the excerpts from other stories the author puts before a new chapter.

A fan made a book talk about the book: (she doesn't have the best spelling) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoXw1MYj7s8