Dear John

One day, as I was walking to the train station, I passed by a book store, and I asked the girl standing there which book she would get; she directed me to Dear John by Nicholas Sparks, who, I didn’t realize at the time, is also the author of The Notebook.

If I had to describe this book in one word, I would say “sad”. I don’t really know if I enjoyed reading it or not, I was actually able to relate to a lot of it so in that respect I liked it, and although the ending was tremendously sad – ‘bittersweet’ really, it didn’t make me cry (like The Notebook apparently made me do the first time I saw it!). It was inspiring though, and in a strange way makes you feel sort of good, especially if you’re a person that always tries to do the right thing!

If you’re one of those people that are in love with “true love”, you should read it, and if you’re a skeptic and a realist, you may want to skip it!

Thoughts from FireMom

As a woman who married a soldier (now ex-Army, thankfully), the book was a hard read for me, actually. Good. But hard.

Thoughts from shaz

Fire Mom, I really cannot imagine what that must have been like! I am glad that you do longer have to go through that.