Sometimes.......

When you're a woman, you just have to read a good romantic novel. Can't be helped! And if you're going to do it then the one to read is Nicholas Sparks. Yes, a male romantic novelist. Of course, on his bookcover it says story teller but we women know that he's more than that. Come on, he wrote "The Notebook", "Message in a Bottle", and the new movie out, "Night in Rodanthe." Well, he's done it again with his latest, "The Lucky One." The male character (you need one of them) is a college graduate and signs up with the Marines (just like Dad). He ends up in Iraq at the start of the war. While jogging around the camp early one morning he finds a picture half buried in the sand. The background is of a country fair and the rest is of a beautiful blonde woman wearing "Lucky Girl" on her t-shirt. He tries to find the owner but is unsuccessful so he keeps it in his pocket. It becomes his lucky charm. Friends are falling around him but he seems to be able to walk away from all the encounters with the enemy. His best friend is sure that it's the picture and tells him that he owes it to the woman to find her and thank her. The journey takes him cross country, on foot with his dog, to a small town in the south. Now, how does he repay this woman with a small child and an ailing grandmother? Got to read this one, ladies! You won't put it down.