Love, Rosie
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This book was at times frustrating and disappointing, not because it wasn’t written well, but because it depicts life so annoyingly real! This story shows how life truly can be, no sugar coating, no big fat perfect story with romance and happily ever after and always making the right choices. It reminds us how life and love and loss and hardship shape and form oneself over decades, and in a way how boring it all can be at times. First I thought of giving it 5 stars for its realism, but then again, I wouldn’t give real life 5 stars either ;) I enjoyed reading it! And definitely recommend!
Wow. That was kind of exhausting to read. I was not the biggest fan of the books style. The way it was written, was kind of exhausting to follow along the story and understand all the time jumps. The ending made it worth it though. So the book is parted in 5 Parts. The last part made it allllllll worth it.
"Get in touch with me when you get back, prove to me that at least some things never change. Love, Alex" "What happens when two people who are meant to be together can't seem to get it right? Rosie and Alex are destined for each other, and everyone seems to know it but them. Best friends since childhood, they are separated as teenagers when Alex and his family relocate from Dublin to Boston. Like two ships always passing in the night, Rosie and Alex stay friends, and though years pass, the two remain firmly attached via emails and letters. Heartbroken, they learn to live without each other. But destiny is a funny thing, and in this novel of several missed opportunities, Rosie and Alex learn that fate isn't quite done with them yet." "To Alex Why amnt I invited to your birthday party this year? I know all the boys from the class are going. Are you fighting with me? Rosie" It's difficult to talk about "Love, Rosie" now, after spending the whole weekend wrapped up in its world. I marathoned through the book, starting Saturday, ending Sunday afternoon, unable to put it down for longer than it took to eat or shower. And let's face it, even while eating I was trying to read without getting my Kindle dirty. I physically and emotionally couldn't put Rosie and Alex down, that hasn't happened to me in a long, long, loong time. "I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.” "Marathon" might be the wrong word though. Marathons are tough, sweaty, dirty and exhausting. They are never-ending, one long mile after the other. When you do reach the end, you feel relieved. "Love, Rosie" wasn't a marathon. It is sweet, funny (hilarious sometimes, the characters had just my kind of humour). It will make you laugh out loud and tear up at the same time (but then again, a marathon might make you cry too). And before you know it, you're suddenly at the end, on the last page, and you just need more. Luckily there's a movie for that now, which I watched Sunday night, but more on that later. "What is it about you and me being together that makes everyone hate us?!" "Love, Rosie" or "Where Rainbows End" (the original title when it was first published in 2004) is a very special book. And I don't mean like "every child is special" special. It's truly special. Alex and Rosie, the two main characters in the book, have been friends since they were 7. It's the story from Rosie not being invited to her best friend Alex's 10th birthday party, because that's when boys are stupid and girls are not allowed at their birthdays. The story up until they are both 50, trying to just get on with their lives. Almost a whole lifetime fit into 448 pages, how could there ever be "enough"? “Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?” Rosie, our main character, is a girl that struggles through life. But not through totally improbable situations, but through everyday life as it happens to you, me, your neighbour or our old class mates. I have never experienced anything of what she had to go through, yet I could 100% relate to her, and sometimes wished I was her best friend and could just fly over to Ireland and give her a hug. (Or sometimes kick her and shake her awake, but that's what best friends are for too, right?) Rosie has kept a box in her cupboard of all the letters she has ever sent or received, all the IM conversations, all online chats, birthday cards and newspaper clippings. And that's all we get to see. We don't actually see the characters, we don't hear them talk. All we get are eMails and letters and text messages. Rosie and Alex and their friends and family, reacting to events that have already happened to them. It's a format I was curious about, but thought it couldn't work. As a reader, you want to see the action, not just read about it all when it's already happened…. I was so wrong. “There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.” Telling a story the way "Love, Rosie" does it, is perfect. You get to hear the perspective and the opinions and thoughts of all the characters, not just Rosie. You get to know them all in a really different way, in a really personal way, that characters don't often share. Or would you share your private emails with anyone? No? Because they are too personal? I started reading between the lines, between what two characters write to each other and what they actually mean. Just like a best friend would. Through this personal perspective, I've become best friends with everyone in the book, Alex and Rosie of course, but also Rosie's mum and dad, her siblings, her daughter, their friends… all the characters are dear to my heart now, and I was teary eyed more than once during those 440+ pages, it was almost ridiculous. Again, something like that hasn't happened to me in a long long time with a book. And it has never happened in such a profound way. There is one of these characters that will always have a special place in my heart, as it sometimes just happens with characters in books. It's Alex. During the story I kept thinking, that he is the type of character who makes you rethink your whole life, and you just want to go back and do everything all over again. Find him, become his friend at the age of five, even if that means you have to struggle through everything Rosie and Alex are going through. "You horrible, horrible man. You made me feel like I could do anything, like I could take on the world (never ever do that again)." The book also made me think about my own friendships. What happened to all the friends you used to have in school? Or even those people you are no longer friends with? Where are they now, and is their life really as glamorous as their Facebook profile suggests? Why did you keep in touch with certain people and not with others? How did these friendships just stop or disappear from your life? It's sometimes nobody really wants to think about, but maybe we should reflect on these things, and pick up a pen and write some letters ourselves. “Life is funny isn’t it? Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan something, get excited about something, and feel like you know what direction you’re heading in, the paths change, the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north is suddenly south, and east is west, and you’re lost. It is so easy to lose your way, to lose direction. And that’s with following all the signposts” Curious how the book compares to the movie? Check out an extended book<3movie review on my blog: rukhi.me
wonderful. a great lovestory in letters.
Tolles Buch aber am ende und an manchen stellen zu langgezogen :)
Normally I don't like books that are in a letter format, but it was executed well, this was a comfort book that took a day to finish, no wonder there as fated romances are my weakness. A light read that hits the spot. Thanks to my sister I discovered a new love
Beiträge
This book was at times frustrating and disappointing, not because it wasn’t written well, but because it depicts life so annoyingly real! This story shows how life truly can be, no sugar coating, no big fat perfect story with romance and happily ever after and always making the right choices. It reminds us how life and love and loss and hardship shape and form oneself over decades, and in a way how boring it all can be at times. First I thought of giving it 5 stars for its realism, but then again, I wouldn’t give real life 5 stars either ;) I enjoyed reading it! And definitely recommend!
Wow. That was kind of exhausting to read. I was not the biggest fan of the books style. The way it was written, was kind of exhausting to follow along the story and understand all the time jumps. The ending made it worth it though. So the book is parted in 5 Parts. The last part made it allllllll worth it.
"Get in touch with me when you get back, prove to me that at least some things never change. Love, Alex" "What happens when two people who are meant to be together can't seem to get it right? Rosie and Alex are destined for each other, and everyone seems to know it but them. Best friends since childhood, they are separated as teenagers when Alex and his family relocate from Dublin to Boston. Like two ships always passing in the night, Rosie and Alex stay friends, and though years pass, the two remain firmly attached via emails and letters. Heartbroken, they learn to live without each other. But destiny is a funny thing, and in this novel of several missed opportunities, Rosie and Alex learn that fate isn't quite done with them yet." "To Alex Why amnt I invited to your birthday party this year? I know all the boys from the class are going. Are you fighting with me? Rosie" It's difficult to talk about "Love, Rosie" now, after spending the whole weekend wrapped up in its world. I marathoned through the book, starting Saturday, ending Sunday afternoon, unable to put it down for longer than it took to eat or shower. And let's face it, even while eating I was trying to read without getting my Kindle dirty. I physically and emotionally couldn't put Rosie and Alex down, that hasn't happened to me in a long, long, loong time. "I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.” "Marathon" might be the wrong word though. Marathons are tough, sweaty, dirty and exhausting. They are never-ending, one long mile after the other. When you do reach the end, you feel relieved. "Love, Rosie" wasn't a marathon. It is sweet, funny (hilarious sometimes, the characters had just my kind of humour). It will make you laugh out loud and tear up at the same time (but then again, a marathon might make you cry too). And before you know it, you're suddenly at the end, on the last page, and you just need more. Luckily there's a movie for that now, which I watched Sunday night, but more on that later. "What is it about you and me being together that makes everyone hate us?!" "Love, Rosie" or "Where Rainbows End" (the original title when it was first published in 2004) is a very special book. And I don't mean like "every child is special" special. It's truly special. Alex and Rosie, the two main characters in the book, have been friends since they were 7. It's the story from Rosie not being invited to her best friend Alex's 10th birthday party, because that's when boys are stupid and girls are not allowed at their birthdays. The story up until they are both 50, trying to just get on with their lives. Almost a whole lifetime fit into 448 pages, how could there ever be "enough"? “Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?” Rosie, our main character, is a girl that struggles through life. But not through totally improbable situations, but through everyday life as it happens to you, me, your neighbour or our old class mates. I have never experienced anything of what she had to go through, yet I could 100% relate to her, and sometimes wished I was her best friend and could just fly over to Ireland and give her a hug. (Or sometimes kick her and shake her awake, but that's what best friends are for too, right?) Rosie has kept a box in her cupboard of all the letters she has ever sent or received, all the IM conversations, all online chats, birthday cards and newspaper clippings. And that's all we get to see. We don't actually see the characters, we don't hear them talk. All we get are eMails and letters and text messages. Rosie and Alex and their friends and family, reacting to events that have already happened to them. It's a format I was curious about, but thought it couldn't work. As a reader, you want to see the action, not just read about it all when it's already happened…. I was so wrong. “There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.” Telling a story the way "Love, Rosie" does it, is perfect. You get to hear the perspective and the opinions and thoughts of all the characters, not just Rosie. You get to know them all in a really different way, in a really personal way, that characters don't often share. Or would you share your private emails with anyone? No? Because they are too personal? I started reading between the lines, between what two characters write to each other and what they actually mean. Just like a best friend would. Through this personal perspective, I've become best friends with everyone in the book, Alex and Rosie of course, but also Rosie's mum and dad, her siblings, her daughter, their friends… all the characters are dear to my heart now, and I was teary eyed more than once during those 440+ pages, it was almost ridiculous. Again, something like that hasn't happened to me in a long long time with a book. And it has never happened in such a profound way. There is one of these characters that will always have a special place in my heart, as it sometimes just happens with characters in books. It's Alex. During the story I kept thinking, that he is the type of character who makes you rethink your whole life, and you just want to go back and do everything all over again. Find him, become his friend at the age of five, even if that means you have to struggle through everything Rosie and Alex are going through. "You horrible, horrible man. You made me feel like I could do anything, like I could take on the world (never ever do that again)." The book also made me think about my own friendships. What happened to all the friends you used to have in school? Or even those people you are no longer friends with? Where are they now, and is their life really as glamorous as their Facebook profile suggests? Why did you keep in touch with certain people and not with others? How did these friendships just stop or disappear from your life? It's sometimes nobody really wants to think about, but maybe we should reflect on these things, and pick up a pen and write some letters ourselves. “Life is funny isn’t it? Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan something, get excited about something, and feel like you know what direction you’re heading in, the paths change, the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north is suddenly south, and east is west, and you’re lost. It is so easy to lose your way, to lose direction. And that’s with following all the signposts” Curious how the book compares to the movie? Check out an extended book<3movie review on my blog: rukhi.me
wonderful. a great lovestory in letters.
Tolles Buch aber am ende und an manchen stellen zu langgezogen :)
Normally I don't like books that are in a letter format, but it was executed well, this was a comfort book that took a day to finish, no wonder there as fated romances are my weakness. A light read that hits the spot. Thanks to my sister I discovered a new love