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Message in A bottle
by Nicholas Sparks
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Thrown to the waves, and to fate, the bottle could have ended up anywhere. Instead, it is found just three weeks after it begins its journey. Theresa Osborne, divorced and the mother of a twelve-year-old son, discovers it during a seaside vacation from her job as a Boston newspaper columnist. Inside is a letter that opens with, “My Dearest Catherine, I miss you my darling, as I always do, but today is particularly hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together.” For Garrett, the message is the only way he knows to express his undying love for a woman he has lost. For Theresa, wary of romance since her husband shattered her trust, the message raises questions that intrigue her. Challenged by the mystery, and driven to find Garrett by emotions she does not fully understand, Theresa begins a search that takes her to a sunlit coastal town and an unexpected confrontation. Brought together either by chance or something more powerful, Theresa and Garrett’s lives come together in a tale that resonates with our deepest hopes for finding everlasting love. Shimmering with suspense and emotional intensity, Message in a Bottle takes readers on a hunt for the truth about a man and his memories, and about both the heartbreaking fragility and enormous strength of love. For those who cherished The Notebook and readers waiting to discover the magic of Nicholas Sparks’s storytelling, here is an achingly lovely novel of happenstance, desire, and the choices that matter most. Did You Know? Theresa was named after Nicholas’s agent, Theresa Park? The novel was sold to Warner Brothers when it was only half complete. The first draft of the screenplay was finished on the same day the novel was finished.
About The Author
Nicholas Sparks is one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 105 million copies sold worldwide, in more than 50 languages, including over 75 million copies in the United States alone.
Sparks wrote one of his best-known stories, The Notebook, over a period of six months at age 28. It was published in 1996 and he followed with the novels Message in a Bottle (1998), A Walk to Remember (1999), The Rescue (2000), A Bend in the Road (2001), Nights in Rodanthe (2002), The Guardian (2003), The Wedding (2003), True Believer (2005) and its sequel, At First Sight (2005), Dear John (2006), The Choice (2007), The Lucky One (2008), The Last Song (2009), Safe Haven (2010), The Best of Me (2011), and The Longest Ride (2013) as well as the 2004 non-fiction memoir Three Weeks With My Brother, co-written with his brother Micah. His eighteenth novel, See Me, published on October 12, 2015. His newest book, Two by Two, will be published on October 4, 2016.
Film adaptations of Nicholas Sparks novels, including The Choice, The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven (on all of which he served as a producer), The Lucky One, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John and The Last Song, have had a cumulative worldwide gross of over three-quarters of a billion dollars.
In 2012, Sparks and his publishing agent and creative partner Theresa Park, launched Nicholas Sparks Productions, with Park as President of Production. A film version of The Guardian is currently in development, as is a film based on Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers’s friendship with Chicago Bears teammate Brian Piccolo.
Sparks lives in North Carolina. He contributes to a variety of local and national charities, and is a major contributor to the Creative Writing Program (MFA) at the University of Notre Dame, where he provides scholarships, internships, and a fellowship annually. He co-founded The Epiphany School in New Bern, North Carolina in 2006. As a former full scholarship athlete (he still holds a track and field record at the University of Notre Dame) he also spent four years coaching track and field athletes at the local public high school. In 2009, the team he coached at New Bern High School set a World Junior Indoor Record in the 4 x400 meter, in New York. The record still stands. Click to watch the Runner’s World video with Nicholas.
The Nicholas Sparks Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit committed to improving cultural and international understanding through global education experiences for students of all ages was launched in 2011. Between the foundation, and the personal gifts of the Sparks family, more than $15 million dollars have been distributed to deserving charities, scholarship programs, and projects. Because the Sparks family covers all operational expenses of the foundation, 100% of donations are devoted to programs.
Skryf Review
“Amazing Book”
Jasmine
I’ve read 4of his books so far and I’m hooked. I find myself wanting to read every one and I will. This book was very romantic and heartbreak at the same time. I loved the fact that he was so into his wife but at the same time I liked that he was able to move on after her death. True love is definitely that. I didn’t like the way it ended I would of rather seen them be together forever.I am a big Nicholas Sparks fan; but, that being said, I also know going into reading his novels that he’ll rip your heart out. This one was another that you love reading until you get near the end, then you just have to get through the disappointment again. Maybe the next one he’ll let the characters live happily ever after.
Angaan
As in typical Sparks fashion it started off with a woman sitting on a beach reliving a memory. She is a divorced mother in her 30s (did it ever give her exact age?) on vacation. As she is jogging she finds a bottle on the beach and discovers a letter from a sappy love letter from a man to his wife. After getting overly emotion over people she doesnt even know, she gets talked into publishing it in her colomn. She eventually finds 2 other letters written by the same man. She becomes obbessed with his writing and once again gets talked into going to find him. She manipulates him from the start. Going to his shop, finding him out by the dock and pretending to be interested in his boat. They end up taking a ride on the boat, and instead of letting him ask her out again she “accidently” leaves her jacket so she has an excuse to interfer with his life some more when she should have just told him the truth in the first place. So after 2 dates she decides to sleep with him (hmm…pretty risque for someone who hasnt had sex in 3 years). Of course they are inseperable until she has to go home to Boston, where they have a long distance realtationship, but not before he tells her he loves her even though he is still in love with his dead wife. They make several trips to see eachother including teaching her son to scubadive, but nobody ever mentions doing anything more about thier realtionship. It is on Thanksgiving when she so conviently cant make it and secretly breaks his dads heart that all the sudden he thinks he doesnt want to see her anymore. But then 2 days later he decides he wants to marry her? When he finally ambushes her and tells her she HAS to move to Willmington or he doesnt want to see her anymore, he doesnt understand why she gets upset. Then while trying to find paper to write her a letter, he conviently finds the letters he wrote to his dead wife in her drawer (like she wouldnt have hid them knowing he was coming!) He gets mad and storms off. This is where I get thrown off…I was expecting for them to go thier seperate ways and meet a year later or something of that sort, but no, she gets the first flight the next morning and instead of telling her to leave they have sex as soon as she walks through the door! (so much for being mad) then she procedes to tell him that she cant be with him because he is still in love with his ex wife! WTF? So she leaves as he chases her car down the street, when the day before she wanted him to move to Boston, and flies back. I know I should have been expecting a death, as there is always one on every Sparks book, but I WAS NOT prepared for it to be Garrett!!!! Go figure he is finally ready to let go of Catherine and he dies! Nice metaphor! Then as she tosses his letter out to sea she realizes the reason she met him is so that she could learn to move on! Did she not see how far that got HIM?
Kaushal
Nicholas Sparks has written an exceptionally tender novel MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE that is sure to capture your interest and touch your heart. Garrett Blake mourns the death of his wife, Catherine. To assuage his grief, he writes messages to Catherine, puts each in a bottle, and sets it adrift in the ocean. As the novel starts, Garrett Blake has already placed at least three messages in the ocean. Theresa Osborne, a syndicated columnist for the Boston Times, finds a bottle on the beach at Cape Cod. Seeing that the bottle contains an envelop, she reads the message and is touched by it.Not knowing who sent it or how old it is, she decides to publish it in her column. A reader informs her that her husband, a Navy sailor, found another message to “My dearest Catherine.” She faxed Theresa a copy. A third one, discovered on the internet, had been published in a magazine. Intrigued by the tenderness of the messages, Theresa decides to find Garrett. She discovers where he lives and travels to meet him. She only planned to see what this tender-hearted man is like, but once meeting him, she finds herself attracted to him. Theresa, a divorced woman and lonely herself, and Garrett, already lonely and filled with kindness and compassion, start a relationship that is real and promises happiness. Sparks then deepens his story by superb characterization of Theresa and Garrett. Garrett has a sailboat, the Happenstance, which he and Catherine built before her tragic death. Whenever his sorrow overcomes him, he takes the boat to sea nd leaves a message. Theresa doesn’t want to offend Garrett by revealing that she didn’t just happen to run into him. What follows is a very tender love story as Garrett and Theresa draw closer to each other.Theresa knows that, eventually, she must tell Garret why she met him. Garrett is troubled because he feels his affection for Theresa is betraying the memory of Catherine. Sparks shows considerable skill in characterization and in understanding the human heart. He brings Theresa and Garrett (and the reader) to a closer understanding of what love is all about. The book ends differently than you would expect, but the ending makes the portrayal of love deeper and clearer.
Vishvesh
Thrown to the waves, and to fate, the bottle could have ended up anywhere. Instead, it is found just three weeks after it begins its journey. Theresa Osborne, divorced and the mother of a twelve-year-old son, discovers it during a seaside vacation from her job as a Boston newspaper columnist. Inside is a letter that opens with, “My Dearest Catherine, I miss you my darling, as I always do, but today is particularly hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together.” For Garrett, the message is the only way he knows to express his undying love for a woman he has lost. For Theresa, wary of romance since her husband shattered her trust, the message raises questions that intrigue her. Challenged by the mystery, and driven to find Garrett by emotions she does not fully understand, Theresa begins a search that takes her to a sunlit coastal town and an unexpected confrontation. Brought together either by chance or something more powerful, Theresa and Garrett’s lives come together in a tale that resonates with our deepest hopes for finding everlasting love.
Aryaan
This is one of the hardest books I have ever read to put down, it is so good. I mean I read at the table during meals, read until I couldn’t hold my eyes open any longer last night, woke up during the night and grabbed my kindle again, then the first thing I reached for this morning. Theresa Osbourne, a syndicated columnist for a Boston newspaper vacations on Cape Cod and picks up a bottle on the beach with a message inside from a Garrett to a Catherine expressing undying love and why did she have to leave? The message, dated July 22, 1997, mentions Wrightsville Beach. Theresa’s editor insists she publish the letter in her column omitting the names and the location. Days after the letter is published across the nation Theresa is contacted by Michelle Turner of Norfolk and she has found a similar letter in a bottle dated March 6, 1994 and when she identifies the names on the letter, they match. She faxes the letter to the newspaper. Doing an internet search, Theresa locates a third letter, dated September 25, 1995 published in “Yankee” magazine. Theresa sets out to locate Garrett in Wrightsville Beach, NC. This will be the best book you read this year.
Skryf Review
Good Read
Message in a Bottle is a remarkable book, and like all Nicholas Sparks books it is a truly touching love story that leaves marks on your soul.
This book is much like most of other Nicholas Sparks books. He has been blessed with the gift of writing stories which make women cry, believe that true love will be found despite the obstacles of time and space, and does this all in a book most people can easily read in a day.