It's really late

It is currently 1:25 a.m. and I should be sleeping peacefully in my bed with dreams about having lots of money, traveling all over the world, and owning a library, but instead I once again became mesmerized by a book and was unable to put it down until I was finished. When I started reading tonight it was probably around 11, maybe a little after. I then had over 100 pages to read. I am now sitting here finished with the book and too excited to sleep.

The book that is causing all of the hullabaloo is "The Wedding" by Nicholas Sparks. If you are not familiar with the author, I am sure you have heard of some of his works that have been made into movies such as, "A Walk to Remember", "Message in a Bottle," and "The Notebook." If you have seen these movies but have not read the book I highly suggest you read the books, because as always the movies never do the books justice. "The Wedding" is the sequel to "The Notebook" because (spoiler alert) contrary to popular opinion Noah does not die in the end of "The Notebook." "The Wedding" follows his daughter and son-in-law who seem to have forgotten why they are together. The story starts with Wilson forgetting their wedding anniversary and follows the next year as Wilson attempts to get the love back in his marriage. Close to their next anniversary, their eldest daughter announces that she is getting married and wants to plan the whole thing in just 2 weeks. As the wedding plans are made Wilson continues to try to make his wife fall back in love with him again.

Ok, so if you haven't gathered on the context clues yet, this is a romantic novel, and an amazing one at that. I am not ashamed to say that at a few times I found tears rolling down my cheeks. I guess what made me want to write about it was that I hope my love never falls out of my marriage. I understand that a lot of the initial feeling of being married will pass and like in the book, once kids come into the picture the marriage is forever changed, but I would like to hope that neither or us forget the feelings we have right now for each other and the small things we do. I hope that we still set aside nights to have a date night, I hope we still go rent a movie every now and then and sit around in our sweats to watch them. I hope that we still send each other greeting cards just to say I was thinking about you. I hope that we still dream and plan vacations even though we may never take them. I hope for us to grow together and not apart and to always remember why we are together and how we got to where we are.

Ok so that is how the book effected me. If that does not make you want to read the book I don't know what to tell you. Now I think it is time for bed! Sweet dreams!