l don't read books, because if they're any good they'll make 'em into a miniseries.

...even if they aren't any good, they still make them into a movie.

I told myself a few years ago that I would NOT, under any circumstances, watch another Nicholas Sparks movie. I failed miserably....

Sunday evening I watched Nights in Rodanthe. It was like an accident I couldn't walk away from...I just sat there utterly transfixed. I write this, dear readers, as a time saving measure for you.

Let me begin by giving you a little tip....if you see Nicholas Sparks connected with any book, movie or miniseries remember this and you will be saved 120 minutes of your life. THEY DIE IN THE END!!! It doesn't matter what it is about, someone will die in a very tragic way just as they come out of a very dark period into the light of love. There...now you know.

"Nights" is no exception. I knew someone was going to die once they spent the better part of an hour building up the relationship into a love you cannot live with out. This movie stars Richard Gere and Diane Lane as two people who are escaping the current tragedy in their life (death and/or divorce) by hiding out on a beach. They are thrown together during a hurricane and love blossoms...

Gere leaves on some mission of mercy to be a doctor in some poverty stricken country and Lane goes home to her suburban life and they write dirty letters back and forth to each other. Soon she gets a letter telling her he will be coming home on such and such a date and she spends the rest of the movie preparing for his return....but...guess what....you guessed it. He never makes it home. Instead, his son shows up with a box to let her know that this is all that is left of him.

Now you know how every Nicholas Sparks book/movie ends ....consider this my public service announcement for the month.....