Still Me: Discover the love story that captured 21 million hearts

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This was an enjoyable book and there is no denying that it kept me reading. I basically devoured this in a few days, yet I still feel so very conflicted about it all. When I went into this book I wanted closure and I didn’t get it because “Still Me” somehow managed to leave me with even more questions than I had before. I wish I could say that to finish this series made me happy but I feel like Jojo Moyes let me down. Maybe it were my high expectations, who knows? All I know is that this gets 3 stars from me because there were just too many issues I couldn’t overlook. This said maybe the book just wasn’t for me?! I guess we’ll never know. XD ME BEFORE YOU to Be Adapted by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber". Collider. 23 October 2013 . Retrieved 5 November 2015. Pauline Sara Jo Moyes (born 4 August 1969), known professionally as Jojo Moyes, is an English journalist and, since 2002, an award-winning romance novelist, [1] #1 New York Times best selling author [2] and screenwriter. [3] [4] She is one of only a few authors to have twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association and her works have been translated into twenty-eight languages [5] and have sold over 40 million copies worldwide. [6] Life and early career [ edit ]

You said … nobody would ever hurt me again. You said that. When you came to New York.’ My voice emerged from somewhere in my chest. ‘I never thought for a moment you would be the one to do it.” After You is a romance novel written by Jojo Moyes. It is a sequel to Me Before You. The book was first published on 29 September 2015 in the United Kingdom. [1] A third novel in the series, Still Me, was published in January 2018. [2] Plot [ edit ] Well, most of my friends would laugh at the idea that I was massively interested in fashion. My default uniform is shirt, jumper, jeans, boots. I rarely wear anything else. But it feels like such an integral part of Louisa’s character, and over the past few years I have discovered a love of vintage clothes. I have a number of vintage outfits—and suppliers—and I find them so much more enjoyable, both to buy and wear, than just a chain boutique. It’s partly textural. The work that goes into some of these older clothes—beading, cutting, stitching—is just beautiful. Even I can appreciate it! In Still Me, Lou is finally living up to the promise she made to Will to live boldly and say yes to new experiences. She’s left her family and her boyfriend, ambulance Sam, in England and moved to New York City to be an assistant…and secret keeper…to Agnes, the younger, second wife of the extremely wealthy Mr. Gopnik. Louisa found Dean Martin and brought him to Mrs. De Witt’s apartment. She discovered Mrs. De Witt unconscious on the floor and called an ambulance. She accompanied the old woman to the hospital, then returned to look after her dog. Mrs. De Witt asked her to continue to look after Dean Martin and her apartment while she stayed in the hospital for the following week and after she returned. Mrs. De Witt and Louisa grew to be close friends. Mrs. De Witt told Louisa about her past and insisted that she call her by her first name, Margot. Louisa discovered that Mrs. De Witt had inherited her apartment and could no longer afford to pay her bills. She encouraged Mrs. De Witt to sell her designer clothes to the Vintage Clothes Emporium, but they were too precious to Mrs. De Witt.Writing and being part of the filming of Me Before You was, without doubt, the best—and most challenging—experience of my professional life. I was on the steepest learning curve and I worked flat out for months. But I loved the cast and crew and the director, producers and I are still good friends, so it never really felt like work. Still Me was really enjoyable and definitely poignant in places. It's a powerful meditation on being true to yourself, no matter how many people want you to do otherwise, and the struggles doing so may cause. It's also a story about the importance of saying what you think, of expressing how you feel (which these characters were definitely not good at), or else what occurs around you might not be what you wanted. This was the weakness of the book. I didn’t like it when it stated to happen. The trope made Beth skim the rest to find out what happens she hated it that much. It’s not my favorite thing that JoJo Moyes has done. I won’t say much more, but I could have done without it. I didn’t devour this book like I did Me Before You or its sequel After You. It took me 4 sittings over a few months to finish it. But it wasn’t because the story wasn’t good. It wasn’t because Louisa isn’t still as adorable and flawed as she always has been. It’s a story about life after. About moving on. About next steps. About being in your 30s. About finding yourself. And while the setting is interesting, new characters have personalities that make you want to know more and Louisa is still Louisa, it didn’t have the obsessabilty of Me Before You. But I think it is a stronger book than After You. Why Jojo Moyes felt compelled to take a story as emotionally charged as Me Before You and drag it out to a trilogy, I’ll never understand. Was it a burning desire on her part to continue Louisa’s story that led to After You (book 2) or more of an opportunity to exploit the success of Me Before You? Is it possible Still Me (book 3) was viewed as a chance to right all of the squandered opportunities we suffered through in After You or again, more of a sales play? Either way, I won’t deny, this third installment was a much more enjoyable read than the prior. Although, arguably, unnecessary in the grand scheme of things.

In the year 1992, she won bursary which was financed by The Independent newspaper. The bursary allowed her to undertake her postgraduate degree in journalism at the University of London. When she was attending the University of London, she worked on different roles such as writing brochures, and writing Braille for blind people. Her passion for writing began during this era.

Still Me

Once upon a time there was a small-town girl who lived in a small world. She was perfectly happy, or at least she told herself she was. Like many girls, she loved to try different looks, to be someone she wasn't. But, like too many girls, life had chipped away at her until, instead of finding what truly suited her, she camouflaged herself, hid the bits that made her different. For a while she let the world bruise her until she decided it was safer not to be herself at all. After You is a continuation of Louisa Clark's life after Will's death. Pursuing a more meaningful existence, as urged by Will, Louisa relocates to London and secures a job at an airport bar. One night, an unexpected conversation startles her on the roof of her building, leading to a severe injury from a fall. Follow Lou Clark's next adventure in the spellbinding conclusion to the love story that captured 21 million hearts. This story made me laugh out loud. Lily (Will’s daughter) is perfection in her horrific teenager-ness. A new character Margot is terrible and wonderful. And oh— the letters.

Following a new series of events Lou finds herself facing other challenges trying to make something out of herself and not just the plain Louisa Clark from Stortfold. Jojo’s work never fails to bring a smile to my face with her honesty, humour and empathy about what it is to be human —[Still Me is] a must read!” —Emilia Clarke I didn’t read a decent romance for quite a while and since I already know Lou and want a happy ending I’m finally going to read this. :-) Louisa is, in fact, Still Her. But she’s growing. When you think about who she was when she first met Will Traynor, working in that cafe, to who she is today, hailing cabs off Park Avenue and going to protests to keep neighborhood libraries open and befriending rich older ladies and wealthy gazillionaires, she is a different person.Before attending university, Moyes held several jobs: she was a typist at NatWest typing statements in braille for blind people, a brochure writer for Club 18-30, and a minicab controller for a brief time. While an undergraduate at Royal Holloway, University of London, Moyes worked for the Egham and Staines News. [10]

I’m sorry,’ he said finally. ‘About the other night. I never wanted to … Well, it was badly judged.’Jojo Moyes published Sheltering Rain, her first novel, when she began writing novels full time in 2002. Moyes has amassed a total of eleven more since the first one in 2002, the most recent being The One Plus One. The Writing I was so pleasantly surprised by this one! I didn't think much of book 2, and I absolutely adored book 1 so I honestly didn't know what to expect. Louisa Clark is a character that will probably stay with you forever, I mean Hell, I still think about Me Before You till this day and I never regret going into this series, I love it! I'm always delighted to know about her and her life, it's like going on an adventure to be honest, it's an amazing experience. If you're even remotely considering this one, I would say, go for it. Even if for nothing other than the times Lou reminisces about Will. The snippets of Will throughout—letters written to his mother from his own time in New York and his anecdotes about life that pop up when Lou needs them most—acted as a salve of sorts, healing some of my past disappointments and reigniting those feelings I experienced with their unforgettable beginning. Jojo Moyes is a phenomenal storyteller. I adore her characters, settings and scenes. I may be partial as I know a lot of the places in the book since it takes place in NYC; however, even when Lou is just wandering around with no real plot, it's brilliant writing. The setting is always described in the perfect amount of detail with just enough for my imagination to fill in the blanks.