If I Stay & Where She Went - DT - Page 2

Originally posted by: Destiny_rose

If I stay was an international bestseller yet not many in India knows bot the book.

Btw have you watched the movie Ari?

Originally posted by: -TeekhiMishti-

lets not go to indias standards of good books. They like chetan bhagat and ravinder singh. I text better than the language in ravinders books

And of-course i have. as soon as i read the book 😆

From Formans Blog

If I Stay
If I Stay came from a very personal place. I go into a lot of detail about the story behind the story in the extra bonus material in the paperback, but in a nutshell, here is the deal:

Once upon a time, there was a family: a mom, a dad, a little boy like Teddy and another little boy, just a baby. And once upon a time, there was a snow day. And a drive in a car. And a mysterious car accident. And an unfathomable tragedy.Once upon a time, one of those family members held on a little longer, though by the time the news reached me, all the way across the country in New York City, the devastation was complete. The whole family had died. But that little boy's act of tenacity, followed by his surrender, it haunted me. Did that one little boy know what had happened to the rest of his family? Did he choose to go with them?It was out of the fog of that persistent question that one day, almost seven years after the fact, this total stranger popped into my consciousness. Her name was Mia. She was 17 years old. And a cello player. And she had no relation whatsoever to the people I knew. But the minute I met her I knew she was going to take me on a journey, to answer that question that had been living in me for years: What would you do if you had to choose?

Where She Went
Answer contains SPOILERS for If I Stay. Okay, here's the deal: I never intended to write a sequel. After finishing IIS, I had an entirely different book I planned to write but Adam and Mia...well, they had different ideas. Even though I'd ended IISon a hopeful note, I'd left Adam and Mia in a pretty rocky spot"I warned you about spoilers! Adam had made this enormous promise, with serious consequences for both of them. And Mia had made this enormous decision, with serious consequences for both of them. Turns out, my unruly characters were not content to sit out there, in limbo. They started banging on this drum in my head. Hey lady, you put us through that to leave us here? So, they sort of bossed me into writing the sequel.

FROM Gayle Forman's Blog

ADAM AND MIA AND A THIRD BOOK

MAY 27TH, 2011

Okay. Just to make this crystal clear. And don't read this if you haven't read IF I STAY and WHERE SHE WENT because it's a spoiler. But I keep getting asked if there is a third book for Mia and Adam. And if you have finished WHERE SHE WENT, I have to ask you to ask yourself this:

Really?

Do you really want a third book?

I am so flattered that you ask. Am so flattered that you want to spend more time with the characters. But think about the ways books work. They operate on conflict. A third book would either be Adam and Mia in boring middle age. YAWN. Or I'd have to introduce some new conflict. You know, like give someone cancer. Would you want me to do that to them? Have they not been through enough already???!!!!

I love you all for asking. I love you all for wanting to be with them. You can always be with them in the pages of IF I STAY and WHERE SHE WENT or in your own imaginations. But the only reason I even wrote WHERE SHE WENT was because Adam and Mia were banging in my head, telling me that they weren't happy where I'd left them. They're happy now. They're quiet now. I'm happy for them now.

There are some other noisemakers in my head now. They have nothing to do with any of the characters in IIS OR WSW. They are totally new people. I hope to be able to tell you about them soon. I hope you will fall in love with them in a whole different way from the way you have with Adam and Mia.

Thank you for your awesome enthusiasm.

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This makes me love her even more!

Originally posted by: -TeekhiMishti-

the movie can never really capture the entire essence of a book. it did decent work. but i know what ur talking of...smethng was off