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what is your catch your breath / weeping / soul confirming read?

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BBBee · 26/07/2008 20:42

mine is 'the picture of dorian gray' because if I am getting a bit shallow I read this to remind me so.

And you?

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ScottishMummy · 02/08/2008 23:56

unbearble lightness of being
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe,
angela's ashes is a beautiful read

ScottishMummy · 02/08/2008 23:51

the grass is singing

vInTaGeVioLeT · 02/08/2008 23:49

angela's ashes

when i was very young little women - my mum laughed her arse off at me the bitch

justgaveup · 02/08/2008 23:34

5 people you meet in Heaven

lilolilmanchester · 30/07/2008 21:12

Prince of Tides
My Sister's keeper

PestoMonster · 30/07/2008 21:01

I've just read Jenny Downham's 'Before I Die'. It was a real page turner, read it in three nights and couldn't stop crying last night when I'd finished it. Really funny and really sad too.

Had previously enjoyed 'The Girls' and 'The Lovely Bones'.

Cocodrillo · 30/07/2008 20:44

blue sky july made me cry like a baby.

barnsleybelle · 27/07/2008 21:42

The lovely bones

horace · 27/07/2008 21:30

more votes for tuesday with morrie and i,ve just finnished the time traveller's wife. I started crying half way through, really good read, felt quite uplifted.

MogTheForgetfulCat · 27/07/2008 21:18

Me also Time Traveler's Wife.

The Lovely Bones
The Amber Spyglass
After You'd Gone
The Birthday Letters

When I was a teenager, it was Wuthering Heights ("I AM Heathcliff! He is always, always on my mind!") - loved it

cremolafoam · 27/07/2008 11:44

time travellers wife
English patient
the book thief

yama · 27/07/2008 11:43

FlossieTcake - yes Regina. She had lovely dark hair as I recall. It was a good book, wasn't it?

HumphreySmallPillow · 27/07/2008 01:11

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Monty100 · 27/07/2008 01:07

Yay me too :
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Jude the Obscure

And more recently An Evil Cradling. (1993)

But try and read it. Think it changed my life in a way.

FlossieTCake · 27/07/2008 00:36

@yama: God I remember that SVH book. The lovely Regina Morrow, no?

thumbwitch · 27/07/2008 00:21

"Stuart - A life Backwards" had me in floods.
To cheer me up again I would read the Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment

ScottishMummy · 27/07/2008 00:20

the grass is singing - doris lessing

BoysAreLikeDogs · 27/07/2008 00:15

Another vote for The Girls

NotDoingTheHousework · 27/07/2008 00:13

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notnowbernard · 26/07/2008 23:34

I've just finished To Kill A Mocking Bird and cried. It really moved me

TheMagnificent7 · 26/07/2008 23:25

Tuesday With Morrie by Mitch Albom. I cried for hours

zwiggy · 26/07/2008 21:31

I second 'of human bondage'
and 'nectar in a sieve' by karmala markandala

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BBBee · 26/07/2008 21:23

I cry at loads of things (but not as much as posts on here)

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yama · 26/07/2008 21:09

Haven't cried reading a book since a Sweet Valley High book in my teens .

Girl died of an overdose. In my defence, I was in my early teens.

blueshoes · 26/07/2008 21:05

Bridges of Madison County