A bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks

Book :- A bend in the Road
Author :- Nicholas sparks 

                          One of my new year resolutions is that to read as many books as possible .Now that i have entered in the last semister of my engineering career,I am going to have a lot of free time(no college) . So this is the time to read the books, that i thought of reading them in the last year itself .

                          I started off with  ever popular Nicholas spark's writings. I  read three of his novels "Notebook","A walk to remember" and "Night of Rodanthe" already . All the three novels eventually made in to movies.His writing is so true to life.  The love and feelings he puts into words are outstanding. But I must say "A bend in the road" isn't one of his best piece of writings . Though he tried different with murder mistery , it lacked love and romance quotient unlike his precious novels.Up to a point I enjoyed the book  , however this is not anything that I would read more than once.

                          Coming to the story, the main protagonist Deputy sheriff Miles Ryan had lost his wife in a terrible accident .He never thought his live would be good again until he found out killed his wife and the mother of his son(Jonah) . Since his mother death Jonah has had difficulties with studies. And his former teachers left him out of his own sympathy.  Now "Sarah Andrews" a second grade teacher helps him ,she also helps miles .For the first time, since missy's death he has feelings for a woman "Miss Andrews" . Eventually they both fell in love with each other. But God has another plans .As soon as they bound to each other , miles comes to know the real truth behind the missy's accident, who killed missy, how he is related to Sarah .
                               
                           The unknown narrator(murderer) narrates some part of the story.He is in grief and sorrow because of accident.He is revealed at the end of the story.  This book is about   love ,death, revenge,and every thing in between . The love sequences between Miles and Miss Andrews were excellently portrayed , but the story lost it's charisma in the later part. we can easily guess the murderer . This book reminisce me of christian bale movie "The machinist".


                                Anyway if u haven't read nicholas sparks book till now, you are going to enjoy the book .And for those who love romance stories ,this is a must read .


my rating :- 7/10
                                           

Front of the class(2008)

Movie :- Front of the Class
Genre:- Comedy/Drama


 I watched this movie two days back and thought i should share it with you all .
This movie is based on the true story of Brad Cohen(award winning author) -- played in the movie by Jimmy Wolk.He could have easily got an oscar.what an acting really .

The main Protoganist “Brad cohen” has a weird syndrome which happened to be “tourett syndrome” ,the people with tourett syndrome were uncontrollably foul-mouthed .there are very small percentage of people with this disablility. Brad type of tourett  makes him to emanate some weird noises like dog bark, tic tac all the time .

The movie starts with the young Brad , how he suffered with touretts, how  he was  humiliated by his fellow mates and  estranged from the all the people around him. But he never lets his  touretts to ruin his life. Fortunately he shifts to another school , finds an inspiring principal there  and from then he never looks back. He completes  his schooling  with superior performance.

He sets an ambition  to become a teacher. He applies for all the schools in his city. He fails in each and every interview because of his so called constant companion Taurett syndrome .After innumerous attempts(24 schools turned him down), he succeeds and  recruited as a 2^nd grade teacher in some school.Then a few months later, he  becomes the “Best teacher of Georgia” ,which concludes the movie ..

A true and Inspiring story  . Director Peter Werner was superb., Jimmys Wolk who played “Brad cohen”  character , was spectacular. He acted naturally as if he is really suffering with tourett, I think he is   better than the many A grade heroes of  Hollywood . Casting is really impeccable .

And i do  think that this  movie and book should be a must in every school library in the world. Every classroom should have this book as a must read. Every teacher needs to own and re read this book to be a better teacher.

My rating 9/10  :)