” A poignant love story” “Message in a bottle” is a sentimental love story. Theresa Osborne (a divorcee with a twelve year old son, Kevin) falls in love with Garrett (a widower) after reading his message of love in a bottle washed ashore. Though the feeling turns out to be mutual, Garrett is not able to forget his wife, Catherine.At one point, he seems to want both of them in his life.

Theresa is a independent woman with an air of confidence about her. She works as a columnist for Boston Times. She lives a very hectic life in downtown Boston. When she comes to Cape Cod to enjoy a break in her hectic life, she happens to read a message in a bottle washed ashore. From then on her life changes. She goes in search of the writer, finds him and falls in love. Just when things seem to look good, everything changes forever again.

Garrett lives a life, which is far from being hectic. He owns a scuba-diving shop in North Carolina and is also a diving instructor. He falls in love with Theresa but not complete…

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If you thought The Notebook was a tearjerker, get out the hankies, pull up a chair, and get ready to have your heart monkey-wrenched by Nicholas Sparks’s second star-crossed love story, Message in a Bottle. When Theresa Osborne takes a much-needed summer holiday at Cape Cod, she finds a lot more than a break from the hustle and bustle. On an early-morning jog along Cape Cod Bay, she comes across a corked bottle with a scrolled-up message inside that reads, “My Dearest Catherine, I miss you, my darling, as I always do, but today is especially hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together…” It bobbles around in the same vein for several more paragraphs and ends with “…am alone on the pier and I do not care what others think as I bow my head and cry and cry and cry. Garret.”

Garret may eat quiche, but no bother–before you can say “Look! I found two more letters!” Theresa is hot on his trail and determined to find this mysterious yet sensitive message-in-a-bottle man. She finds him at a sleepy North Carolina port, working on his beloved sailboat, The Happenstance. From there, a romance buds and blossoms into a colorful bouquet of emotional baggage. Theresa has problems with her past–or, more accurately, her past is a problem. She is so scarred from her “I’m a super churchgoing guy now that I’ve run out on my wife” ex-husband that she hasn’t tried to date since her divorce some three or four years before. And who is Catherine? And what’s Garret’s bag, anyway? When Theresa finds out, she plunges to the depths of her soul and uncorks a whopper of a secret about herself, bringing Garret to terms with who he really is.

Message in a Bottle has the earmarks of sentimental tongue-wagging at its finest and should please romantics and cynics alike–it’s sure to bring romantics to their knees, while cynics will be slapping theirs in laughter. –Rebekah Warren

In 1996 The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks captured the hearts and imaginations of readers around the world. It spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list and was the No. 1 bestselling hardcover fiction title of 1997. Message in a Bottle, Nicholas Sparks’s eagerly anticipated second novel, proves that this author can uncork the magic again. The film industry caught on to the buzz immediately. Warner Brothers snapped up movie rights within 12 hours of submission, and Kevin Costner, Robin Wright, and Paul Newman will star in the film. The book is a heart-wrenching tale of self-discovery, renewal, and the courage it takes to love again. Teresa Osborne, a 36-year-old single mother, finds a bottle washed up on a Cape Cod beach. The scrolled-up message inside is a passionate love letter written by a heartbroken man named Garrett who is grieving over “his darling Catherine.” Teresa is so moved by the stranger’s poignant words that she vows to find the penman and publishes the letter in her syndicated Boston newspaper column. Questions linger in her mind and heart: Who is Garrett? Who is Catherine? What is their story? And most importantly, why did this bottle find its way to her? Imagining that Garrett is the type of man she has always been seeking, Teresa sets out on an impulsive, hope-filled search. Her journey, her discovery, and the wisdom gained from this voyage of self-discovery changes her life forever. Love’s unimaginable strength as well as its tremendous fragility echoes on each page of Sparks’s newest gem.

Together at sea
The theme was never give up on love. Garrett and Theresa were two people from different worlds who had both been inlove and lost it. Both of the had retreated back in to their work, shutting out the world, having no hope of ever finding love again until they met each other. They grew together and experience things that they were never thought they were going to be able to feel again. When Theresa lost Garrett, she knew now that she would one day love again and that life was still worth living. She was able to do this because of what she and Garrett had gone threw and learned together.

This was a fantastic book. The whole story revolved around Garrett’s letters to Catherine. These letters changed Theresa’s life forever. “Immediately after reading it, she had read it again, then a third time. What would it be like, she mused, to have someone love her that way?” (Sparks, Message in a Bottle, pg. 28.) This showed the beginning of Theresa’s interest in finding and meeting Garrett. With Theresa wondering about Garrett, it kept me reading to find out if they would eventually meet and then what would happen. After reading a news article that was posted many years ago about a letter washed up on shore, Theresa knew that Garrett had written more than just one love letter to Catherine. Enticing her even, she couldn’t wait to meet him. “She stopped eating and abruptly put down her fork. It can’t be! She found herself staring at the words. It’s simply not possible….but who else could it be? She wiped her brow, aware that her hands were suddenly shaking. Another letter?” (pg 68) While Garrett and Theresa grow closer, Garrett has flash back of him and Catherine. It adds the feelings that Garrett still has for Catherine and the relationship they once shared. While Garrett and Theresa are sailing, Garrett has the flashback to his and Catherine’s last time on the Happenstance. “Catherine sad at the small table with a bottle of wine already open. In front of her, a vase with a single flower caught the light of a small burning candle. The flame swayed with the boat’s motion, casting long shadows across the interior of the hull. In the semidarkness, he could just make out the ghost of a smile.” (pg 118). Garrett’s flashback of him and Catherine, while he and Theresa are sailing on the Happenstance, showed that Theresa brought out those feelings that he hadn’t felt since he was with Catherine. Just a glance into the future for him and Catherine. After Theresa found out about Garrett’s death, she immediately went to Wilmington. Once there, Garrett’s father gave her a letter that Garrett had written for her. Theresa read that letter over and over. Eventually when she was ready, she wrote Garrett back and set out to send him the letter at sea. After throwing the bottle into the ocean, Theresa smiled because she knew that Garrett would get her letter. This was showing the true and ever lasting love they had shared. “When the bottle vanished from sight a few minutes later, she started back to the car. Walking in silence in the rain, Theresa smiled softly. She didn’t know when or where or if it would ever turn up, but it didn’t really matter. Somehow she knew that Garrett would get the message.” (pg 370).

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A Good Love Story
When I first read the back of the book i underestimated it. At this time I was looking for a good love story book to read after reading The Notebook, and I had thought it was going to be a boring read and not a great love story. I thought how can Theresea be suddenly interested in a man who wrote letters to his wife in bottles. But then when i was reading the book i kept wondering how could nobody want to meet Garrett. This book most definately suprised me because it is a great love story. It’s mainly about dealing with past relationships and moving forward.

I really enjoyed this book, and cried really hard at the end….more info

Message from the Sea
Have you ever wondered on the beach looking for interesting items, such as a message in a bottle? If so this book is for you! In this book Nicholas Sparks tells the story of two people who thought they would never love again. The main character, Theresa Osborne, found a tied up letter in a bottle that was written to a woman named Catherine. Theresa immediately fell in love with the letter and was persuaded to find the man who wrote it. Theresa found the author of the letter, Garrett, and to make a long story short, the two fell in a love. Theresa and Garrett’s relationship came to a pause when Theresa needed Garett to get over his past. The tearjerker story is well written and very interesting to read. Message in a Bottle is one book that the reader will not be able to put down….more info

Can’t believe it is the same author as The Notebook
After reading The Notebook, I was excited to pick up another hyped Nicolas Sparks book. But boy oh boy was it such a let-down. A third of the way through I started rolling my eyes. When I was half way though, I found that I didn’t really care about the two characters and how their “relationship” would become. Three quarter through, I was hoping for one of them to die (how horrible was that!?). I just wish it was Theresa who died. She was a creepy stalker who jumped into bed with a practical stranger. And she “forgave” him for what he had done!? She was the one who needed to ask for forgiveness for publishing other people’s private thoughts and looking him up and stalking him….more info