October 2nd, 1960

As you may know I'm a cinema fan, I love movies and most of the times if I watch a book to movie adaption, I read the book. I had watched Pay it forward based on the book by Catherine Ryan Hyde but had never read something by her. I was surfing on the internet when I found this book, I know you can’t judge a book by its cover but I loved it. When I read the synopsis I knew I had to buy it. The plot is a heart-breaking story that follows two persons Nathan and Nat, who create a beautiful relationship, making us feel empathy for each one of them. "What do I have to do to make you wash your hands of me? There's nothing you could do. I will never was my hands of you". This is in the back cover. The moment I read it my heart melt because I could tell the story would include true love and I've always felt that if you loved someone more than yourself then you would never give up on that person, I have always lived by that "rule" so when I read that phrase I knew this book was going to break my hear...and it did. I'm usually cheesy about things so I fell in love with the plot and started reading it the second I bought it.

This was one of the first contemporary books I would read so I didn't know what to expect, I was used to the line YA  fantasy books follow. It was a totally new world for me but this managed to hook me and to never let me go, I always wanted to know what happened next and even though my heart suffered throughout the whole book I fell in love with the characters and even more with Nathan and Nat and the relationship they create. 

When I Found You places us on October 2nd, 1960 in a cold night when early awake Nathan McCann hears a cry in the distance and finds a baby abandoned in the woods; he starts to make plans to raise him until the baby's grandma claims him. Fifteen years later the boy, named Nat, and his grandmother show up on Nathan's doorstep. Nathan takes Nat in and swears to never abandon him, starting a relation that will overcome every difficulty on the road. “Whatever you think your shortcomings are...you can't just lock yourself in the house so no one can notice or comment. We all have to take ourselves out into the world, flaws and all. And find a way to make the adjustment.” I loved this quote because it reminded me the internal strength that you need to have in difficult situations. And how we have to accept ourselves and never about what everyone else says. 

There were many situations that made me mad and made me sad. Nathan is the most awesome and comprehensible character I know, because he never gave up and he always supported Nat. I felt connected with Nathan because I am like him, I always want to help others. On the other hand I disliked a lot Gamma’s character (the Grandmother) because she’s the antagonist, she’s always against what Nat does and thinks. Most of the times I read about Gamma I felt angry and sad because I could feel empathy towards her, she was hurt about what had happened to her daughter but that I didn't understand why she was so mean to Nat. “The value of your life is your own choosing” I totally agree with this quote and the moment I read it made me smile. I truly believe your choices will guide you through the path you want. 

I've never cried in a book and this book was going to be the exception unfortunately the very moment my eyes were teary the chapter ended and the moment was killed, I felt frustrated because I was in the moment and was cut so suddenly. 

Vocabulary: 

Ambivalence: The state of having mixed feelings.

Sentence: Throw him out in the woods on an October night, then give him a nice warm sweater and a little hand-knit hat to hold his body heat. Now that's ambivalence. 

Scoot: Go or leave somewhere quickly

Sentence: They scooted off on their bikes.

Gutter: A shallow trough fixed beneath the edge of a roof for carrying off rainwater.

Sentence: He got the latter and cleaned the gutter of his house. 

Kennel: A small shelter for a dog.

Sentence: He sat listening to the periodic ringing of the chain-link of her kennel run as she jumped up and hit it with her front paws.

Squinted: verb tense for looking at someone with one or both eyes partly closed in an attempt to see more clearly.

Sentence: He squinted his sleepy eyes against the sudden light. 

All in all I loved this book because it made think what would I do in this or that situation, the way the author describes things and shows us the conflict in each one of the characters is something wonderful.