"The Last Song"

"The Last Song" really touched me.  Nicholas Sparks has a way of weaving a story that tears at your heartstrings every darn time!  This book is about a family coming back together to share the summer together..all be it under stressful circumstances. 

I'm not a crier per say but I found myself tearing up the last quarter of the book.  I so did not want the ending to turn out the way it did!  Ug...so frustrating but beautiful in a way.  Life has a way of happening whether you want it to or not and presents opportunities  that you can choose to take or not.  In my own life I have been presented with choices to make and opportunities that have presented themselves as challenging.  I did not shy away, I took the challenge and hoped for the best holding on by the hair on my chin.  Isn't that what we can ever do?  Hope for the best and hope all goes well???  Nicholas Sparks has a gift of writing about every day events in everyone's lives...love stories, parent-child relationships, birth and death.  That's why we love him and love to read him!