In keeping with my tradition of reading books before I see the movie I recently borrowed One Day from my friend Allison to read. I can happily say that this book exceeded my expectations. It contains a love story touching enough to cause laughter one minute and tears the next. I do not often become emotional reading books so kudos to David Nicholls for bringing out those lovely emotions in me that I wish more books would. Although I may not experience those emotions much cause I mainly read teen novels and fantasy... maybe I need to rethink my reading strategies?
I found the way the story is told to be quite clever, each chapter is July 15 of a different year in the lives of Emma and Dexter, excepting a few chapters which were multi-part tellings of one day. It was refreshing to see a romance mature over time as opposed to love at first sight. This just made Nicholls' plot twist near the end that much more heart wrenching, never fear I will not spoil it for those who have not read the book/watched the movie yet. I am truly excited to see the movie in theatres and hope it does the book justice.
David Nicholls
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