I just can't get over this book.  I just love it!  It never ceased tugging at my heartstrings from the first page until the very last page of the novel.  It made me remember and miss my Papa (who is in heaven right now) especially that Father's Day is just around the bend; not to mention that his death anniversary is coming up next week.  Well, I know that my Papa is now in the best place one could ever be.

I know that there is a movie on this novel and I just can't wait to watch it and compare it to the novel.  It was on theaters last April and I missed it.  Hopefully, hubby can get me a DVD copy of this movie soon.

Here's its synopsis:

"Seventeen-year-old Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Tybee Island, Georgia. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father ...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer on Tybee Island with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story about love in its myriad forms - first love, the love between parents and children - that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that deeply felt relationships can break our hearts ...and heal them. "