ByMarlida

The weeks are passing by so quickly I can't even keep track! This week has been another busy bundle of work, school and christmas presents. I was working during Black Friday, and all though it's not as big here in Norway as it is in the US, it was CRAZY.

Anyways, I did some bookish shopping on black Friday as well; the whole Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon, The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare and the first book in A Great and Terrible beauty by Libba Bray! Can't wait to have them in my shelf.



I'm also starting to worry about what I'm actually going to bring home to read. I really want to read Soundless by Richelle Mead, a book I got in my Owlcrate box this month, and I'm wondering if I'm possibly going to read Outlander and The Rose Society by Marie Lu!

As you can see I haven't been doing much this week, I've just been working my ass off both in school and on work. But, I did start The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks on eBook the other day, so far so good! And, I've kept on reading Lullaby by Amanda Hocking and Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. I feel like I'm reading a lot of books with little action, so I'm kind of bored and in a reading block.

A WALK TO REMEMBER
BY NICHOLAS SPARKS
PUBLISHED: 1999
AVERAGE RATING: 4.14
240 PAGES
★★★★☆

I think most girls (and maybe some guys) fall for the simple pleasure of reading love-stories. For me, reading a love-story kind of gives me the illusion of having that kind of love in my life, because let's face it; we're probably never going to have our own Romeo and Juliet moment. Now, I don't want to let you down by saying that love like that doesn't exist, because I truly believe it does, but sometimes when reading love-stories I kind of sob to the fact that I never experienced that kind of love, than in the books I've read.

Nicholas Sparks, the man behind so many novels about love I think you could easily catch diabetes through reading his whole collection, and all though I've never really been fond of cliche love stories about two people who accidentally meet and fall in love endlessly, I have to say that I'm surprised. I am, so surprised that I'm sitting here in my bed at 12.30 am, wondering what I'd actually just read.

About thirty minutes ago I finished a book I'd been thinking about reading for a long time, Nicholas Sparks name had come up so often that I swore to myself that I was going to read at least one of his books during 2015. And I did, in about two days.

There was a time when the world was sweeter... when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister... Jamie, who was destined to show him depths of the human heart - and the joy and pain of living.

I have to say that I was kind of looking forward to this book, since I'd seen the movie based on the novel, and I quite liked it even though it was, indeed, a cliche. The things that really made me love the novel more than the movie was the fact that the book is placed in the late 1950's, while the movie is placed in modern days, so the stories are quite different, and I must say that the book, it swept my heart away.

I had about four stages reading this book, first there was this, "aaw, that's cute" stage, where we get to know Landon, all though he's a douche bag, we can't help but think that some of the things he's thinking about, is kind of cute and adorable.