THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!

(I just copied this from my blog...and, didn't realize until it was pointed out to me (below) that I didn't copy the whole thing sorry!)

Please be warned this blog post contains SPOILERS for the following books: One Day, Message in a Bottle, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Lord of the Rings, The Way We Were, A Walk to Remember, Atonement, Bridges of Madison County, The Time Travelers Wife, The English Patient

This is the first book that is so beautiful tha More...

Rarely am I left speechless, I usually have plenty to say, but as I reflected on this novel, I realized there would be no surefire way to describe this book. It is a complete conundrum. Readers will either love or hate this book, I don’t think it there is much of a middle road with this one. It will speak to those with similar personal experiences.

I enjoyed the format. It gives the reader snapshots of Dex and Em’s life, like flipping through a stack of polaroids, just a flash of what was going More...

Opening Line: "I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference."

So I’m going to try to write a somewhat sensible review here that doesn’t come across as all gushy fan-girl. I will say (hopefully only once) that I adored this book but you should know that I'm a bit of a sucker for a tragedy too. ONE DAY was brilliant in every way; making me laugh and cry while filling me with nostalgia and longing. And because I’m the same age as Dexter and Emma the time frame here was also total More...

A hilarious and realistic love story. Excellent characterizations, Nicholls captures life's ups and downs so well and tells Emma and Dexter's stories through snapshots on one day over the course of twenty years.

If you are a HEA junky like me, you might want to be aware that this is not a traditional happy ending at all, but in a way it is even better because the story continues beyond the HEA, it is real, honest and bittersweet.

I don't necessarily think this is a story everyone will enjoy, it is More...

Is love really all that difficult? Yes, yes it is. David Nicholls crafts a beautiful love story about two people who are so different that they really only have one thing in common: they are both mad for each other. The frustrating thing is though, that however much these two people love each other, they maintain a "friends only" status throughout most of the book. What starts out as a possible love affair after just graduating college, Emma and Dexter's chemistry and attraction falls through th More...

Frankly, after reading a spoiler about the ending, I simply have no will to continue on, there is just no pay-off after enduring this depressing tale sprinkled with occasional one-liners. Granted, I am never opposed to taking a good dose of drama, but melodrama I detest.

This story is about a man and a woman who one day come together as lovers, then break up, but stay connected. Their relationship is followed through the next 20 years by presenting just one day - July 15th - out of their lives.

T More...

Every now and then you read a book that sticks with you. It may have a serious tone, or in the case of One Day, no particular tone at all. I’m exceedingly glad that I withheld from reading reviews of this novel until after I was three fourths of the way through, as I’m not sure my experience with these characters, these words, would have been the same. It was bad enough to have been bombarded with blurb after blurb hailing this book as a comedy, others as a romance. I’m of the opinion that it is More...

Romances that bring friends together should show some reason why the two people like each other. Right? That seems to be the tactic that works for other stories.

As complete opposites, you’d think Dexter and Emma were turned on by these differing facts. But, the characters actually seem annoyed by most of what makes them dissimilar. In short, there is nothing to explain why they would actually care about each other. And, there’s no reason for me to care about them either, for that matter.

Dexter i More...

I was hesitant about this novel because it semed like a romance novel, but I picked it up because it came up on several "best books of the year list". I'm glad I did. This is a real-life romance novel. No fluff, no fantasy. It follows the lives of two very real people who struggle with life, relationships, and self. The novel is fast-paced in that you only get a glimpse of their relationship (or lack thereof) as it spans over twenty years. The author achieves this by picking one day and describi More...

So here's the thing: The old me would've gobbled this book up. I used to love witty dialogue, 'clever'ish writing, and foreign locales. And heck, I still do. But I've read over 200+ books this year and have, naturally, become much more choosy in what I read. It's not that the book’s that bad, really. It’s just that the chemistry between the leads was nonexistent and the writing just didn’t get with me. And I’ve been in this horrible, horrible book slump—nothing seems to be holding my interest la More...

One Day is a simple concept: "Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways." The first chapter is set Friday 15th July 1988 in Edinburgh and each chapter takes place on the same day but a year ahead. At first, I struggled to think what to write for this review and so I browsed others for inspiration only to find a lot of people who also loved the book also did not have much to say. I think this is because there isn't anything More...

I feel as though I just went on a wonderful date with this book, but now I'm trying to justify to my friends, myself and the book why this isn't true love. Or at least true literature.

Like most page-turners, the dialogue is snappy, the ruminations are written like people talk, and the story is mostly plot-driven in a sea of Omigodwhathappensnext adrenaline. (And that scene where the new boyfriend nervously plays a game with the girlfriend's family only to play too hard and have everyone glaring More...

Every moment with this book felt like a waste of my time. I've seen it all before: the ugly duckling pining after the rich asshole who could be transformed into a better man if he only realized that the right woman was right there in front of him. This plot is so well trod that I feel like there are hundreds of better examples of it that I could have been reading. And here is the thing, I love these kinds of stories as the size of my romance shelf can attest. But I hated these characters so much More...

Dear Em and Dex,

Please tell me, what a true love is?
Coz i can't bear to read about how you both live in lies and denials for more than 10 years

Does it supposed to be like that? a true love?
Make you live in despair, trying to keep your love one closed, though you know you don't belong?
What's that all about?
Meh

Why it has to be that way, Em?
Why don't you realize that you are worth enough, even when Dex had told you how gorgeous you are, thousands of times?
Why'd you have to wait for many years to co More...

Twenty years, two people, one day... Pick a turning point in your life, preferably involving somebody else, and then examine your lives on the same day every year. Compare and contrast, take a snapshot of your relationship with each other, your careers, your family. Would your story be like Dexter and Emma's? That is what this book is about.

I loved most of this book, particularly because I'm British too, and graduated two years before them, so many of the background trends in 'One Day' feel fami More...

This isn't great literature, but it's entertaining and told in a subtler way than I expected, despite a tricky mix of humour and sadness. In particular, the "ending" was not at all what I expected (and the better for it), but I would have stopped the book at that point, rather than drag out the story for a few more chapters, which I think weakened the overall impact.

PLOT
Dexter and Emma are at the same university and know each other by sight, but only meet properly on the evening after graduatio More...

I kind of hate this book. I can only reason that I picked it up because I felt lonely and hormonal and thought that maybe I could pass the time with a cute little chick lit book... maybe on the lines of The Time Traveler's Wife, which I can also, reasonably, (though I am not always that) can see as being a hokey book. But--- this... no, I can't let it go. Yes... I was menstruating and I'm sorry if that's TMI... it plays an important role in my reviewing of this book because I could be biased or More...

There are some books that fit you straightaway like cold choco milk. But they are still not a real chunk of rich black chocolate, do you know what I mean?

I’ve read the covers and I had that tingling impulse down my spine that I have every time when I read something promising. When it comes to male-female relationships, I enjoy those that are based in London, because romance in London, yes, I can relate with that.

But when I finished it, I projected my feelings through Portuguese word: saudade - More...

I still, weeks after having finished it, don't know what to think of this read.
The main characters annoyed me half the time, and the other half I found them surprisingly pleasing, shortly after which, they started to annoy me again. The end was a total give-away, which was a shame, I wanted it to be something surprising... but then, with a novel like this, surprise isn't really an option, I guess.
The novel, however, does contain a quote that greatly touched me personally, p.433, "'Live each da More...

This book is completely overhyped. It is so dull. It's not exactly boring, but it's certainly not exciting. In my opinion, dull is the perfect adjective to describe 'One Day'. I was expecting something mindblowingly heart-wrenching from all of the praise I've seen for this book, but it was quite a disappointment. The book was well written and the premise was fantastic but it just didn't work for me - the whole thing just felt so drawn out and I didn't feel much for either Emma or Dexter - especi More...

Amazing. Heart-wrenching, funny, real, albeit sometimes over-the-top. The author doesn't waste a word in this book; it's very character-driven, and each and every sentence seems to have purpose and feeling.

The more time that passes since I finished reading One Day, the more I wish there was more of it. You won't wanna put it down.

I finished this book 3 days ago and I'm just now coming out of the stupor that I've been wandering around in since. One Day isn't a book with many gray areas...readers will absolutely love the story or they will hate it. I happen to be one of the former...so much so that I have spent all of my free time in the last 3 days hunting down pictures, articles, interviews, etc, related to the book and the movie adapted from it (opens nationwide August 19th). Since the author of One Day, David Nicholls, More...

يخربيت اللك والكلام الكتير
الرواية دي لو ف 150 صفحة كانت هتبقي حاجه لطيفة خالص
لكن الكلام والرغي دون حتي تفاصيل هامة شئ كان ف منتهي السخافة

قصة رومانسية تم صنعها ك فيلم سينمائئ
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عن ايما وديكستر اللي هما اصحاب
خلال 20 عام
فكرة تثبيت اليوم ف المناسبات الهامة
ومدي اهمية دا

وبعدين هو يقرر اكتشاف العالم
ويجد نفسه يحبها
بينما هما الاتنين بيقولوا لا احنا صحاب بس
وتفضل الدينا تلف بيهم
وكل واحد يمشي ف طريق
هي ك طاهية بينما مش عارفة تحقق حلمها ف الكتابة
وهو ك مقدم برامج ناجح
تشهد ا More...

I was bored at the beginning and then got into a bit more, but didn't like the ending. The idea of the book is interesting, but I didn't like the characters much.

Finally finished reading this book yesterday, it only took a whole month. I love the occasional chick lit, the kind of book that I would pretend I haven’t read if I were that kind of person who cares that people judge me by the books I read. Having said that, I will secretly judge you if you tell me that you love the Shopaholic and Twilight series, not that I haven’t read them, I have, I just don’t love them. I’ve read more books by Nicholas Sparks than I care to admit, I just keep hoping that t More...

Only the fact that I borrowed this book from Courtney kept me from throwing it against the wall...

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Maravilha. Um livro muito bom, um enredo bem construido, coeso, forte, com sentido. Personagens fortes, marcantes, humanas. Um enquadramento histórico bem desenvolvido, bem delineado e arquitetado. Uma história de amor muito bela e por vezes tão triste...

Vi primeiro o filme. Com dois atores que gosto muito, foi uma história bem bonita, bem romântica. Estava com algum receio que o livro não fosse como o filme (o filme não fosse como o livro), pois tinha go More...

Any novel inspired by a quotation by Thomas Hardy is bound to appeal to me, but I must confess I picked this one up because it was on offer in Waterstone´s and I thought it seemed like a relaxing read. I only learnt about Thomas Hardy later!
I don´t regret the impulse buy, I really enjoyed this book. It is based on two intelligent premises. Firstly, structurally each chapter covers the same day, 15th July, each year. Using this device David Nicholls retells the friendship between Emma and Dexter, More...