The Best of Me

Y'all may remember from this post just how much I love Nicholas Sparks and all of his books. So you can only imagine how excited I am that on Tuesday a new book of his came out!

In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths.

Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda and Dawson are summoned back to Oriental for the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who once gave shelter to their high school romance. Neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever changed their lives. As Amanda and Dawson carry out the instructions Tuck left behind for them, they realize that everything they thought they knew -- about Tuck, about themselves, and about the dreams they held dear -- was not as it seemed. Forced to confront painful memories, the two former lovers will discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made. And in the course of a single, searing weekend, they will ask of the living, and the dead: Can love truly rewrite the past?

I'm so excited to read this! If it's anything like all of his other books I know that it will be amazing! I just ordered it from Amazon and can't wait for it to come in the mail :) I think I will be devastated when the day comes that he retires and stops writing books. Let's hope that's not for a while though...

In other completely unrelated news, I have been eating some yummy things this week...

Exhibit A:

Homemade Ribs! Sooooo good.

Exhibit B:

This was before it was baked. I'd never tried this before but it's brownie batter with chocolate chip cookie dough on top of it and let me just tell you...finished product = delicious!

Other than that I've just been eating a bunch of random stuff, none of which is really healthy. I need to start eating better things though, especially with all this training going on. Anyone have any suggestions for what to eat while training for a half marathon? I think I need to not be such a picky eater. Oh and it might also be good if I actually enjoyed cooking? Such problems.

Happy Thursday (1 more day til Friday!!),

B.Hines