You know when you finish a book...

[RosieLemonade]

And you just miss it because it was so good. And you just want to talk about it but no one wants to talk to you about it.
Which books have been like that for you?

The girl with the louding voice by Abi Dare so moving and emotional but also makes you feel angry at the plight of so many young girls. No one I know has read it either would love to talk about it

@SomethingNastyInTheBallPool
I know what you mean - I'm trying to get DH to read it, so I can talk to him about it! I don't think any other book will live up to it now.

@lunasunshine

Any books by Khaled Hosseini have definitely given me that effect (Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, And the Mountains Echoed). Also, the Colour Purple. Oh and All the Bright Places. I was devastated when that ended!

We have the same taste! I haven’t read All the Bright Places. Oh thank God, I haven’t read All the Bright Places. Thank you, thank you, I feel I’ve been given an early Christmas present...😁(only a fellow book addict would understand this)

I echo Where the Crawdads Sing. How could anything follow that? I didn’t want to leave that world, I wanted to stay in the marsh.

A completely different book but with lyrical writing that makes you catch your breath, is Mysteries of Glass by Sue Gee.

I fell in love and was totally immersed in The stormlight archive series by Brandon Sanderson. I read all 3 1 after the other didn't want them to end. I also listened to The beekeeper of Aleppo and fell in love it was read by Art Malik and he read it so well I cried my eyes out on the bus and got some very strange looks.

When I finish one of the Shardlake series I quite often feel that I want to step back into that world and feel a bit bereft that I can't.

Call Me By Your Name.

I was devastated when it ended. I really hadn't felt such Book Bereavement in years, possibly decades. It haunted me. It took me back to my own youth in Italy, to young love, first love, agonising lust, yes, but deep love all the same (sometimes we treat young love as if it's frivolous and fickle when it's anything but). Just the whole feel of the book took me right back to a time gone forever. It was so beautifully written and just a beautiful story.

I remembered another one: the Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan.

I read Dorothy Dunnetts Lymond Chronicles in 1984 while on maternity leave. I didn't know anyone else who had read them. I was so immersed in the characters and the world she had created. In pre-internet days it took me ages to find out there was a fanzine where I could finally discuss them.

I cry almost every time I finish a book it's sooo pathetic lol. It also takes me a few weeks to "recover" from a book before I can start a new one.

I've read a few of these (Crawdads, Circe and Achilles) and added a few others to my Amazon wishlist, which is now about 60 books....

My contribution is First 15 Lives of Harry August. I needed to talk about it so much I made DH read it. Our reading tastes hardly overlap at all but this is the sweet spot and both absolutely loved it

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, by Joel Dicker. I read it on holiday about three years ago and it was brilliant. I remember finishing it and sitting on the beach in Spain listening to the seagulls (which also feature in the novel) and being sad I’d finished it.

I have felt like this many times. The girl in the red coat is my most recent one...I didn't want to start anything new for ages afterwards.

I'm a bit obsessed with the Cormoran Strike series by Robert Galbraith.

Fortunately I have a lot of similarly enthusiastic online friends who are similarly enthusiastic to chat to!

I feel like this all the time! So many books ... the Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman was one that springs to mind. Stayed with me for ages.

Giovanni’s Room

I’m shocked it wasn’t top of my list in my first post

It’s a deeply moving book I feel bereft after reading it (and have read it about five times)

Shantaram. I did the very corny thing of reading it travelling round India. I remember in Goa every other person on the beach was reading it. Got home. Couldn't finda soul who had read it.

@OhWhyNot Giovanni’s Room is horribly sad.
It’s definitely stayed with me.

Two recently have made me feel like that.

The Rotherweird trilogy by Andrew Caldecott

and Piranesi by Susannah Clarke. Love, love love it!

@User9574

Shantaram. I did the very corny thing of reading it travelling round India. I remember in Goa every other person on the beach was reading it. Got home. Couldn't finda soul who had read it.

I read Shantaram whilst living abroad for a year and loved it

I've just finished Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine, chosen based on all the recommendations. Thank you I love it! Next is bookclub pic, The survivor by Jane Harper, I'm also half way through "the Power" then after that "where the crawdads sing".

I loved I am Pilgrim, and Timeline.

@yummytummy I recently read The Girl with the Louding Voice too - fantastic book!

Great thread, I've just added a little life to my reading list and song of Achilles- I read circe and really enjoyed it!

Girl, Woman, Other was a brilliant read also, and currently reading Those who are Loved by Victoria Haslop which I'm enjoying too.

So many amazing books to read! X

And the Land Lay Still by James Robertson. I still think about it years later.
Also, as I keep saying on every book related thread - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
I love the books that trigger a grieving period. You slow down your reading so as not to reach the end.

Oh god yes...to the point where I think what's wrong with me, it takes me ages to be able to get into another book...I've been like this after

The Wolf Hall trilogy
The Goldfinch
A Secret History
A Little Life
A temporary gentleman
Invisible furies of the heart
Shadowlands

Book bereavement I call it

Oh and Brooklyn, I just couldn't stop thinking about what kind of life the characters were having after she went back to America...

And John Banvills By the Sea, I cried so hard after reading that...