.: As life continues :.

I love to read, as far I can remember. But, reading journals and reference books does not count. I can’t remember the last time I read a good novel. I cannot describe the feelings.

Below are a few novels I’ve read (since a long time ago) and all of them has been adapted into screenplay. I watched them, too!.

This one is the very first movie I watched in cinema. While I was in Form 5, I watched it with Sham in KLCC if I’m not mistaken. This movie has a very good impact in my life. It was a worth-every-Ringgit movie. Then I borrowed the novel from my friend, Dee. The novel was equally touching and heart-wrenching, too.

Thrown to the waves, and to fate, the bottle could have ended up anywhere. Instead, it is found just three weeks after it begins its journey. Theresa Osborne, divorced and the mother of a twelve-year-old son, picks it up during a seaside vacation from her job as a Boston newspaper columnist. Inside is a letter that opens with: My Dearest Catherine, I miss you my darling, as I always do, but today is particularly hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together…

For “Garrett,” the man who signs the letter, the message is the only way he knows to express his undying love for a woman he has lost. For Theresa, wary of romance since her husband shattered her trust, the message raises questions that intrigue her. Who are Garrett and Catherine? Where is he now? What is his story?

Challenged by the mystery, and pulled to find Garrett by emotions she does not fully understand, Theresa begins a search that takes her to a sunlit coastal town and an unexpected confrontation. Brought together by chance-or something more powerful-Theresa and Garrett are people whose lives are about to touch for a purpose, in a tale that resonates with our deepest hopes for finding that special someone and everlasting love.

The letters in the bottle, written and thrown into the sea by Garrett. It’s so touching to see love of a husband towards his late wife (but I wonder whether in real life guys love and remember his wife so deeply like this?)

I first read the novel, then I found the DVD. Remembering how good the previous movie adapted from Nicholas Sparks, I bought this DVD of A Walk to Remmember. Another thing that grabbed my attention was Mandy Moore being the lead actress! Anyway, the plot of the movie was a bit slow for my liking. I dunno whether the lack of the DVD picture quality has affected my view on this movie.

A Walk to Remember was adapted in the film of the same name, becoming Sparks’ second novel adapted to the big screen after Message in a Bottle in 1999. Serious and conservative, Jamie is the daughter of the town’s Baptist minister and not afraid of letting people know that her faith is the most important part of her life, even if it cost her some friends. After a harmless prank goes terribly wrong, Landon is forced to tutor a young student at a poor school and participate in the Drama Club’s spring play – two activities the principal hopes will teach him some humility. They also happen to throw him into close contact with Jamie. Clearly in over his head, Landon is forced to ask her for help. Soon, against his own expectations, Landon finds himself falling in love with this outwardly plain girl who possesses a passion for life he never imagined possible.

I first read the novel. Then, I saw the DVD of this movie and grabbed it instantly. This is a very touching love story, indeed. I can cry forever watching this movie. Shall I say this is the best love story I’ve ever read/watched? (But, I like Message in A Bottle, too!)

The novel was Nicholas Sparks’ first published novel. It was about a young woman comes to the coastal town of Seabrook, North Carolina in the 1940’s to spend the summer with her family. Still in her teens, Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) meets local boy Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) at a Carnival. On the spot, Noah senses that he and Allie are meant to be together. Though she is a wealthy debutante and he a mill worker, over the course of one passionate and carefree summer in the South, the two fall deeply in love. Circumstances – and the sudden outbreak of World War II – drive them apart, but both continue to be haunted by memories of each other. When Noah returns home from the war years later, Allie is irrevocably gone from his life, but not from his heart. Though Noah doesn’t yet know it, Allie has come back to Seabrook, where they first fell in love. But now Allie is engaged to marry Lon (James Marsden), a wealthy soldier she met while volunteering in a GI hospital. Decades later, a man (James Garner) reads from a faded notebook to a woman (Gena Rowlands) he regularly visits at her nursing home. Though her memory has faded, she becomes caught up in the fiery story of Allie and Noah – and for a few moments, she is able to relive the passionate, turbulent time when they swore they’d be together always.