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Throwback Thursday is a weekly meme hosted by The Housework Can Wait and Never Too Fond of Books.
- Pick any bookish or literary-related media (or non-media item) released more than 5 years ago.
- Write up a short summary (include the title, author, and cover art, if applicable) and an explanation of why you love it. Make sure to link back to The Housework Can Wait and Never Too Fond of Books in your post.
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My Throwback this week is…
The Notebook (2004) based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks
It’s Valentine’s Day, so I thought I’d pick a sappy romantic movie, and what better movie than the one that made millions of women everywhere fall head over heels in obsession with Ryan Gosling? I actually did read the book first in this case, although it was in high school (read: years before the movie came out), so I don’t remember a ton about it, except that it gave me the sappy romantic sad feelings, and later I thought the movie did a pretty great job with the adaptation.
For those of you who don’t know, The Notebook follows the story of Noah and Allie, teenage sweethearts pulled apart by Allie’s controlling parents, only to find each other again years later after Allie is engaged to another man. We flip back and forth between the story of young Noah and Allie’s hot-and-cold romance, and an elderly couple in a nursing home, where a man named Duke is reading this story out of an old notebook to a woman with dementia. And of course, through the course of the story, we ultimately find out what happens to Allie and Noah, and to Duke and his friend.
This is my go-to happy-sappy-sobby movie, which my husband will never, ever watch with me.
Here, since it is Valentine’s Day and I like you, I have found you a sappy video to go along with it. With Taylor Swift, whose songs I often like against my better judgement.
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I loved the film and my sisters always saying how great the book is I might have to borrow it from her.
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I confess I’ve not read the book or seen the movie. I did sign up for a Nicholas Sparks reading challenge so soon I will be reading the Notebook. Thanks for sharing!
I can’t believe I didn’t think of this one for V-day! I was racking my brain for a good bodice-ripping romance and didn’t think about the most romantic book-to-movie adaptation EVAR.
AWESOME VALENTINE’S DAY PICK.
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Yay for sobby romances! I never did read the book, but I also love this movie. So awesome!
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I feel like I’m one of those guys with his face hidden by darkness on those old Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes commercials, but I have to admit that I found The Notebook to be a great read!
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