"P.S. I Love You", by Cecelia Ahernis, a very delightful and alluring book'' which is readable and written in a very light manner and. The book catches the reader right at the beginning, and the reader can feel the characters and identify with them. My oldest daughter, which is in high school, and my self read the book and we both enjoyed it very much. In fact, I''m happy to say that my daughter was the one who recommended me to read it. The story is very sad, but it gives a new prospective to life, and maybe even to life after death.
At the center of the novel that is an ill man, which dies in short time from a serious disease. He leaves after him a wife - Holly, a young, very painful widow, which is forces to say good bye from her loved husband. Ahernis describes so well and real the feelings of both husband and wife, which makes it very easy to identify and even feel the characters.
Prior his death, the husband wrote his wife series of letters, which arrives at pre-defined dates. All, off course are arriving after his death. The letters are an effort of the husband to help his wife cope with the difficulties and the separation pain, and maybe even prepare her for new life without him. Ahernis describes in details the processes that are going over the Holly, and yet without exhausting the reader. In fact there is a great deal of curiosity to find out what do these letters hold in them. In addition, there is a slight feeling tension, all through the story - sort of a mystery atmosphere, in which life and death are mixed together. There is no happy ending, in which the heroes are getting back together, but there is a sense of acceptance of the end of the story, and maybe even contentment of the outcomes.
In these days a movie, based on the book, has seen the light, and as in every book which becomes a movie, there is, for the most of us, the dilemma, whether to see the movie, or will it destroy the strong impression that the book left. during the reading we build for our selves the plot location, the characters, how do they look and how do the connect to each other.
A director, screenplay writer and even the actors them selves are not always able to succeed to pass on the story, as it were drawn in our imagination. Hence the feeling of disappointment while watching the movie.
So - to see or not to see the movie? That is the question
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