Dear John

"Dear John,
Tell me everything. Write it all down. That way, we'll be with each other all the time, even if we're not with each other at all." -Dear John Movie Trailer.

From the bestselling author Nicholas Sparks, who happens to be my writing idol, comes the heart warming story of John Tyree and Savannah Lynn Curits.

"I miss you so much it hurts." -Dear John Movie Trailer.

Dear John is a wonderful story that makes you laugh, cry, smile, and seriously try to hold back your tears so that your makeup won't run.
John Tyree is an "army grunt" who, on leave, meets the beautiful Savannah Lynn. They fall in love. They vow to wait for each other when he has to go back.

"I'm going to marry you one day, you know."
"Is that a promise?"
"If you want it to be."
"Well, then you have to promise that you'll come back for me when you get out of the army. I can't marry you if you're not around." -Dear John, the book.

Letters. They can keep people together, even half a world away.
Even so, Savannah and John go through a lot. And, slowly, slowly, they drift apart, like a glacier riding the currents slowly, slowly, through the rough, touch ice.

"A lot can happen in twelve months, John..." -Dear John Movie Trailer

They change.
Even with all the changes, they're still in love with each other.

"But tonight you're here with me." -Dear John Movie Trailer

You seriously have to read this book. It has been on my to read list since forever, along with The Last Song, but I've just gotten it. and just finished.

Dear John is one of those books that sticks with you. It swirls through your mind.

"It's a full moon here tonight, which makes me think of you, half a world away."

Along For The Ride

"Let me guess," he said, "You want to learn to ride a bike, and it can't wait until morining."

Auden's social life has been...microscopic. Less than microscopic. Invisible.
And now that she's out of High School, she's beginning to think that she missed out on a lot.

Living with her dad and her step-mom, Heidi, and their new little baby, Thisbe, for the summer ins't exactly ideal, but whatever. It has to be done. No choice. It's either that or staying with her mom and her visiting college students. ew. :(

But then she meets Eli, the secretive,mysertious boy who rides a bike at the end of the boardwalk when no one's watching. They embark on her "quest" every night to try and do things she missed in her past years. "Like riding a bike?"

As she and Eli open up to each other, Auden opens up to the world and people. She stops sterotyping. A new place, a new Auden. A better Auden.

Though her mother isn't happy, Auden and Eli teach eachother a lot.

"Failing sucks. But its better than the alternative."
"Which is?"
"Not even trying." Now he did look at me, staright on. "Life's short, you know?"

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We all luh-v Sarah Dessen's books (The Truth ABout Forever, Just LIsten, This Lullaby, etc) and this novel is no exception. Check it out! ;)

Romeo and Juliet

"what light through yonder window breaks?"
"Romeo, romeo, wherefore art thou, romeo?"

We started watching Romeo + JUliet in English class a couple days ago, which made me super jazzed because i love that play and know it by heart. i understand all the words and the true tradegy of the story.
But, i found some of my classmates couldn't understand. " 'Wherefore art thou, romeo?' " one said. "WHy can't she just say 'where the are you, dude?' "
i couldn't help but smile at that. We would've said that. Because Romeo & JUliet isn't from our time. The play takes you back into another world entirely.

The play revolves around this feud between the CApulets and the Montauges- "It has to do with hate, but more with love." They men of the families act like gang members. They brawl in the street and distrub the peace.
Then, you find lovesick , fifteen-year-old Romeo Montauge, the only son of the head of the Montauges, who yearns to be loved like his heart loves. He speaks of peace and love.
Then, you meet lovely, inncoent, thirteen-year-old Juliet Capulet, who is but a stranger to the world. As she is her father's only child, he loves her very much and keeps her inside the Capulet walls. She finds she will be wed to Count Paris, a man whom she had never met. "Can you like Paris?" "I...i look to like."
When these famour star-crossed lovers meet at a party, they fall madly in love.
They go through many trials to be together, and, in the end, they finally are.
"For never was there a tale of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

Check it out!