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The Notebook #2

The Wedding

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After thirty years of marriage, Wilson Lewis, son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun (of The Notebook), is forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage. Desperate to win back his wife, Jane's, heart, he must figure out how to make her fall in love with him... again. Despite the shining example of Allie and Noah's marriage, Wilson is himself a man unable to easily express his emotions. A successful estate attorney, he has provided well for his family, but now, with his daughter's upcoming wedding, he is forced to face the fact that he and Jane have grown apart and he wonders if she even loves him anymore. Wilson is sure of one thing--his love for his wife has only deepened and intensified over the years. Now, with the memories of his in-laws' magnificent fifty-year love affair as his guide, Wilson struggles to find his way back into the heart of the woman he adores.

Did You Know?

The Wedding is a follow-up to The Notebook?

The Wedding was inspired by a few unnamed couples that Nicholas knows well?

The novel is set in the North Carolina town in which Nicholas now lives?

276 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 1,2003
Series
The Notebook

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Format
276 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published
August 1, 2005 by Vision
ISBN
9780446615860
ASIN
0446615862
Language
English

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Nicholas Sparks is one of the world's most beloved storytellers. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 130 million copies sold worldwide, in more than 50 languages, including over 92 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), The Longest Ride (2013), See Me (2015), Two by Two (2016), Every Breath (2018), The Return (2020), The Wish (2021), and Dreamland (2022), as well as the 2004 non-fiction memoir Three Weeks With My Brother, co-written with his brother Micah. His twenty-fourth novel, Counting Miracles, will be published on September 24, 2024.

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. The Notebook has also been adapted into a Broadway musical, featuring music and lyrics by Ingrid Michaelson.

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 4×400 meters, as well as US High School National Records in the 800 Medley and 1600 Medley. Click to watch the Runner's World video with Nicholas.

The Nicholas Sparks Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, was founded in 2011, to provide scholarships and fund educational programs for underprivileged and disadvantaged youth. 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.

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logic340
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April 17,2025
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Ho letto l'edizione serbo-croata pubblicata da bestseller #1 politica. Il libro in sè, è più bello di quello precedente. Almeno a me è piaciuto, un pò di più. Parla del riscatto di una relazione che era vicina allo sfasciamento totale.

Gli do 3 stelle, perché l'ortografia fa schifo. Se lo volesse leggere uno studente straniero che ha voglia di imparare la mia lingua madre, si incasinerebbe totalmente...
Vergogna!
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Xynz01
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April 17,2025
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I've never read one of Nicholas Sparks' books because so many are out as a film, I tend to watch them instead. However, my friend read this book and she absolutely loved it, as did I. It was so romantic, with a massive twist (for the better), and almost made me cry at the end - and that doesn't happen to me very often!
I definitely want to read more of Nicholas Sparks' books, as I'm sure they'll all equally as amazing, and romantic.
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riddle_hanjimono
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April 17,2025
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Most love stories happen before and end with marriage, and the story ends and they've supposedly lived happily ever after. This book, however, shows that even after the rocky path that follows marriage, there's still a loving ending.

The concept of the book is so beautiful, but the way it was presented was very difficult to get into at first. I also found that after reading many of his books, they start to become very similar, and predictable.

The story was incredibly heartfelt, nonetheless, and I was so touched.
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Rawrfa11
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April 17,2025
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Ik weet niet zo goed hoe ik het boek moet waarderen. Aan de ene kant vond ik het een prachtig verhaal, maar aan de andere kant begon ik het verhaal wel beu te worden naar het einde toe. Het verhaal ging eigenlijk alleen maar over de bruiloft, heel veel meer kwam er niet aan te pas. Desondanks vond ik de redenen, het verhaal, het realistische aspect wel mooi. Ik denk dat er heel wat meer huwelijken eveneens in een slop zitten, dus het is mooi dat dit verhaal toont dat zelfs al heb je een 30 jarig huwelijk, je altijd nog kan veranderen.
Jane is de dochter van Noah en Allie. Haar huwelijk is niet zoals ze zich het had voorgesteld, zeker als Wilson hun 29 jarige bruiloftsdag is vergeten. Jane is daar kapot van en verblijft even bij haar zoon.
Daarom wil Wilson iets speciaals organiseren voor hun 30 jarige bruiloftsdag.
Hij bereidt een romantisch etentje voor waarbij hij door middel van aanwijzigingen Jane naar het oude huis van Noah leidt. Daar danst Wilson ook met Jane, zoals Noah en Allie dat vroeger ook deden.
Wilson overtuigt zijn dochter Anna ervan om op de dag dat hij 30 jaar getrouwd is, te trouwen. Anna vertelt dit last minute aan Jane, die daarop in de stress schiet om toch nog alles te organiseren voor een mooie bruiloft. Wat ze eigenlijk niet weet, is dat ze haar eigen bruiloft aan het organiseren is. Het is niet Anne die in het huwelijk treedt, maar Jane en Wilson zelf. De eerste keer dat ze trouwden, was een simpele bruiloft en Jane heeft daar altijd spijt van gehad. Zij wou immers net dezelfde grote liefde vinden als haar ouders. Daarom wilde Wilson haar nu een bruiloft geven met alles erop en eraan.

Allie is in dit boek gestorven. Noah denkt echter dat Allies geest zich nu bevindt in een zwaan, die altijd bij het rusthuis zit. Op de bruiloft is dezelfde zwaan eveneens aanwezig. Ik vind het een zeer mooie gedachtegang dat Noah denkt dat Allie een manier heeft gevonden om na haar dood terug bij hem te zijn.
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nouie
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April 17,2025
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Wat een heerlijk boek! Je waant je weer helemaal in de wereld van The Notebook, Allie en Noah zijn op een fijne manier in het verhaal aanwezig. De romantiek is volop aanwezig, maar blijft realistisch. Ditzelfde geldt ook voor de personages die allemaal als mooie maar realistische mensen worden neergezet. Complimenten voor de verrassende twist! 4-4,5⭐️
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zedz
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April 17,2025
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Even though I only gave this book 4 stars, I really did love the story that Sparks created. I'm a fan of his work. It was a really sweet love story, and it gave me the warm & fuzzies after I read it!! With that said, it didn't draw me in immediately. In fact, it actually took me a long time to read this book. I love it when a book can be so completely engaging that I just can't wait to find out what happens next. It just took me awhile to get into the story, but once I was in it--- I was in it, and I couldn't put the book down. It was a story that I ended up sharing with my husband, and it provoked some interesting conversations between the two of us. Soooooooo--- if you can get past the first 100 pages or so, I would be surprised if you didn't end up liking the story. I would like to note that the first 100 pages aren't painful to read. It's all information that needs to be told for the whole story to come together at the end.
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