The Notebook
Each February I try to have a post ready for a romantic themed movie and so for this year I have picked one of my wife’s favorite movies. The Notebook is based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks. Sparks has written over twenty novels, which from what I can tell mainly focus on the romantic lives of people on either of the Carolina coasts. I have not read any of his novels (apart from a few pages of The Notebook) but I have seen Dear John, Nights in Rodanthe, and pieces of Message in a Bottle. Of these films only The Notebook had any impact on me, though I did like the song “I Could Not Ask For More” from Message in a Bottle. It is a popular joke among men that their wives and girlfriends make them watch The Notebook as a form of torture. It is true that it was my wife’s call to go see that film and she certainly shed more tears than I did while watching it but I enjoy a romantic themed film if it the characters and story are intriguing. As such I found th...