Love is in the book umm air…

Hey guys,

today I’d like to tell you a little bit about one of my favorite authors: Nicholas Sparks. I love reading and I like pretty much all genres – I love Harry Potter, the Twilight-Saga, The Hunger Games Trilogy, Dan Brown books, Simon Beckett, classics like Pride and Prejudice,... – but the author I’d like to tell you about doesn't write Science-Fiction, Fantasy or Crime Novels – he writes about love. He was born in North Carolina and is an American novelist and screenwriter – and all his books play in and around my “second home” Raleigh – small cities/towns like Wilmington, Wrightsville Beach, New Bern, Beaufort or Southport.



You might actually know some of his most famous books, maybe because you read them, or maybe you have already watched a movie based on one of his novels. Since most of you have German as your mother tongue I’m gonna give you the English as well as the German title of the books/movies, because usually if I say “you now, Nicholas Sparks, the author of >The Notebook< or the >Lucky One<", everybody is like “what the heck are you talking about?”, but as soon as I say “well, the German names of the movies are something like >Wie ein einziger Tag< and >Für immer der Deine<" everybody is like "Oh yeah, I know that movie, it's awesome!".

• So here’s the list of some of his books:
• The Notebook (Wie ein einziger Tag)
• A Walk to Remember (Zeit im Wind)
• Dear John (Das Leuchten der Stille)
• The Choice (Bis zum letzten Tag)
• The Lucky One (Für immer der Deine)
• The Last Song (Mit dir an meiner Seite)
• Safe Haven (Wie ein Licht in der Nacht)

I actually HATE the German titles of the books/movies – they make them sound way cheesier than they actually are. I read all of the books listed above, but the ones I liked the most were “The Notebook”, “The Choice”, “The Lucky One” and a few days ago I added “Safe Haven” to my fav list – I just loved it.



It’s about a woman who gets beaten and controlled by her husband, but since he is a cop she can’t go to the police. After trying to escape two times he threatens to kill her – and she tries to escape a last time, knowing that if it doesn’t work out now, she’s gonna be dead pretty soon. She actually manages to escape – but her scrupulous, violent and after she left always drunk husband swears to himself that he’s gonna find and finally kill her (or take her home, because he still loves her - he is a pretty weird and creepy guy). But will he find her? And what will he do to the man she falls in love with? Well, to get those answers you will just have to read the book, sorry guys ;)

But let me tell you – it’s totally worth reading (as are all of Sparks’ books) – I finished it in 2 days, coz I just couldn’t put it down.

Oh and btw – this book was also adapted as a movie – can't wait for February when it will be shown in Austrian movie theaters as well :)
And of course it plays – what a surprise – in North Carolina. Some friends and I were actually in Southport (where most part of the book plays) when it was filmed and we actually got a glimpse of the film crew and might even be somewhere in the background in the movie, because we were watching the 4th of July Parade just opposite of the film crew – if we really are in it I am definitely gonna write about it, I'll keep you posted ;)