True+Believer+-+Connections

This story reminds me of a song from Sara Bareilles, //One Sweet Love//. The lyrics really match up well to the book in some places, especially where it says “The earth that is the space between, I’d banish it from under me to get to you. Your unexpected love provides my solitary’s suicide, oh I wish I knew.” Jeremy and Lexie’s problem is the space between them, but in the end, Jeremy ends up coming back to her. Also, Jeremy was not expecting to fall for anyone in a small southern town the way he did, and the “solitary’s suicide” refers to how neither of them has to feel alone anymore.

Lexie’s reading to the children at the library reminds me of the story times that I used to go to when I was little. I remember sitting on the floor and listening to someone read to me, and flip the book around so that we could all see the pictures before each page was turned. Also, I remember spending quite a lot of time at the library as a little girl because of how much I liked to read.

  At one point in the book, I was reminded of the movie //The Notebook//, based off the novel also written by Sparks. When Jeremy and Lexie got into a bit of a disagreement right before Jeremy left to go home, it reminded me of how Noah and Allie did the same thing in the movie, although it’s not exactly the same as the actual book. In the end, true love wins out and both couples end up together, with one partner giving up something very important to them to be with the other. 

I was able to connect with Lexie’s character when she was telling the story about the thunderstorm from her childhood. I don’t really like thunderstorms, but I have sat out on the porch with my family or friends to watch the lightning and rain, and sometimes it can be peaceful. It can also be scary, like the experience Lexie had on the hilltop and the time that I was out on a boat ride when a thunderstorm hit and was scared we were going to get struck by lightning.

When reading a chapter of this book, I was reminded of another book by Nicholas Sparks that I have read, //Nights in Rodanthe.// When the two main characters, Lexie and Jeremy end up together at the cottage by the sea, it reminds me of the two main characters of //Nights in Rodanthe//. Adrienne and Paul also end up together, but in their case, it happens in an inn near the ocean .