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Shimmering with suspense and emotional intensity - 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.
Nicholas Sparks is our very best chronicler of the human heart. His stunning first novel, The Notebook, has been given by friend to friend and lover to lover all over the world as a testament to the timeless power of love. But if we thought he could never again move us so deeply, he now shows us he can-in a story that renews our faith in destiny...in the ability of true lovers to find each other no matter where, no matter when... Message In A Bottle
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, picks it up 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 man who signs the letter, 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. Who are Garrett and Catherine? Where is he now? What is his story?
Challenged by the mystery, and pulled 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 by chance-or something more powerful-Theresa and Garrett are people whose lives are about to touch for a purpose, in a tale that resonates with our deepest hopes for finding that special someone and 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 his new, achingly lovely novel of happenstance, desire, and the choices that matter most...
Nicholas Sparks is our very best chronicler of the human heart. His stunning first novel, The Notebook, has been given by friend to friend and lover to lover all over the world as a testament to the timeless power of love. But if we thought he could never again move us so deeply, he now shows us he can-in a story that renews our faith in destiny...in the ability of true lovers to find each other no matter where, no matter when... Message In A Bottle
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, picks it up 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 man who signs the letter, 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. Who are Garrett and Catherine? Where is he now? What is his story?
Challenged by the mystery, and pulled 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 by chance-or something more powerful-Theresa and Garrett are people whose lives are about to touch for a purpose, in a tale that resonates with our deepest hopes for finding that special someone and 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 his new, achingly lovely novel of happenstance, desire, and the choices that matter most...
342 pages, Paperback
First published April 1,1998
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342 pages, Paperback
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December 1, 1999 by Warner Books
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9780446676076
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0446676071
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English
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Theresa Osborne
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Garrett Blake
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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.
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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I read this for the first time years ago and it’s one of my absolute favorite Books by Nicholas Sparks!
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There’s not a single book written by Nicholas Sparks that I don’t like. Their love story was absolutely beautiful and by the end it made me cry. I’m touched by how much love they carry for each other and for the people that they’ve lost. Knowing that the letter from Garret was found by Theresa for a reason is the most romantic thing ever. It’s beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time that she believes Garret will get her final message in a bottle.
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Wow well I'm probably going to have a headache into tomorrow morning. I just finished reading this book and sobbing my eyes out. Hubby is cooking veggie burgers now so we can watch the movie version (fo free) on Roku after this. I read some other reviews about how this book was loosely based off Nickolas Sparks' parents love story. It is just so heart breaking. I enjoyed also how in this book Sparks had the couple do a long-distance relationship. That hit home for me personally. I also knew Garrett would be upset with Theresa when he figured out the true origin of their meeting...I mean that was predicatable, but I was still happy when we got there. I wanted some drama! I am surprised that we ended the book with them not together...in fact that a year of time had gone by before making the decision to attempt to get back together. Theresa's letter at the end is what did me in. Her thanking him for "showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go" just hit me hard. Garrett at times came off clingy and stupidly dependent on her, but the relationship felt real. I also was annoyed with Theresa sometimes acting like Garrett should be "over her". Same with the father, Jeb...telling his son it's time to "let go and move on". I'm not a widow and I hope to never be one. I wonder though, if this is an accurate thought-process for those dating widows/widowers. In my mind, the person will always love their previous spouse. They really are with you forever. But you, I guess, are able to make room in your heart to love your current life and your previous one with your deceased spouse. IDK let's hope and pray neither of us ever have to figure that out, but I just wonder. I would think you'd be respectful that the other spouse will always be involved in a way. It seems complicated, but that's something I like about Sparks' books - they are always complex and although they are fiction, seem like they could almostttt happen. Garrett passing away shocked me and I was like "nahhhh, Sparks isn't going there", but he did! I flew through this book because I just really enjoyed it. I wanted to know how we were going to deal with the real life issues of where to move, how will this work out, can it just be the two of us, etc. Overall I would recommend to a friend or family member.
P.S. The movie sucks lol.
Wow well I'm probably going to have a headache into tomorrow morning. I just finished reading this book and sobbing my eyes out. Hubby is cooking veggie burgers now so we can watch the movie version (fo free) on Roku after this. I read some other reviews about how this book was loosely based off Nickolas Sparks' parents love story. It is just so heart breaking. I enjoyed also how in this book Sparks had the couple do a long-distance relationship. That hit home for me personally. I also knew Garrett would be upset with Theresa when he figured out the true origin of their meeting...I mean that was predicatable, but I was still happy when we got there. I wanted some drama! I am surprised that we ended the book with them not together...in fact that a year of time had gone by before making the decision to attempt to get back together. Theresa's letter at the end is what did me in. Her thanking him for "showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go" just hit me hard. Garrett at times came off clingy and stupidly dependent on her, but the relationship felt real. I also was annoyed with Theresa sometimes acting like Garrett should be "over her". Same with the father, Jeb...telling his son it's time to "let go and move on". I'm not a widow and I hope to never be one. I wonder though, if this is an accurate thought-process for those dating widows/widowers. In my mind, the person will always love their previous spouse. They really are with you forever. But you, I guess, are able to make room in your heart to love your current life and your previous one with your deceased spouse. IDK let's hope and pray neither of us ever have to figure that out, but I just wonder. I would think you'd be respectful that the other spouse will always be involved in a way. It seems complicated, but that's something I like about Sparks' books - they are always complex and although they are fiction, seem like they could almostttt happen. Garrett passing away shocked me and I was like "nahhhh, Sparks isn't going there", but he did! I flew through this book because I just really enjoyed it. I wanted to know how we were going to deal with the real life issues of where to move, how will this work out, can it just be the two of us, etc. Overall I would recommend to a friend or family member.
P.S. The movie sucks lol.
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I bought this book used for fifty cents at a book sale.
I'm glad I didn't spend more money on it. What a disappointment. It dragged pretty much through the entire book & then BLAM, the end SUCKED so hard it just pissed me off & any good feelings I'd had from this book were quickly forgotten.
I'm glad I didn't spend more money on it. What a disappointment. It dragged pretty much through the entire book & then BLAM, the end SUCKED so hard it just pissed me off & any good feelings I'd had from this book were quickly forgotten.
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"In a world that I seldom understand, there are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. sometimes they gust with the furry of hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one's cheek. but the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore. you, my darling, are the wind that I didn't anticipate, the wind that has gusted more strongly than I ever imagined possible. You are my destiny"
"In a world that I seldom understand, there are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. sometimes they gust with the furry of hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one's cheek. but the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore. you, my darling, are the wind that I didn't anticipate, the wind that has gusted more strongly than I ever imagined possible. You are my destiny"
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Read this book while vacationing in Cancun in 1998. Read the final page watching the dawn on the beach. Perfect experience!
If I remember correctly, it was one of my favorite books during that time. The book made me compelled to write a letter and throw it out to sea, which I never did.
It's a heartfelt story that should be read. However, it's not memorable because after all of these years, I am not interested in reading it again. It's a one-time-good-book read. If you like Sparks's writing, then I highly recommend this book. If you enjoy stories about how two people don't know about each other, but it's fate that they should be together, get this book. If you're into sappy love stories, get this book. Otherwise, don't. :-)
If I remember correctly, it was one of my favorite books during that time. The book made me compelled to write a letter and throw it out to sea, which I never did.
It's a heartfelt story that should be read. However, it's not memorable because after all of these years, I am not interested in reading it again. It's a one-time-good-book read. If you like Sparks's writing, then I highly recommend this book. If you enjoy stories about how two people don't know about each other, but it's fate that they should be together, get this book. If you're into sappy love stories, get this book. Otherwise, don't. :-)
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Abandoned! I’m just not into the romance genre. My inner cynic just jumps up and down saying “no way would he/she behave that way”. I can’t override my sense of disbelief.” I gave “Message in a Bottle” a go because it had a promising beginning, but romance writing is romance writing; I’m just too practical to be intrigued by it.
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