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Books that made you cry?

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jamiesam · 27/07/2006 21:24

I've just re-read Birdsong and really enjoyed having a good sob. Am keen to read another weepy and looking for recommendations (ps am pg so inclined to be more emotional than normal )

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JennyLee · 01/09/2006 23:07

lol the ending is pants but i thought, very upsetting

chonky · 01/09/2006 23:08

Anne of Green Gables - when Matthew dies

The Time Traveller's Wife
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Fragile by Nikki Shisler
Before I say Goodbye by Ruth Picardie

expatinscotland · 01/09/2006 23:09

Whenever someones says, 'Oh, it's so romantic!' I know already I won't like it.

Funnily enough, I used to write romance.

It's easy enough b/c I used to believe in it, so I've been there. But now I'm just an interested onlooker.

All the better to write about it and run laughing to the bank.

Greensleeves · 01/09/2006 23:09

Frost in May by Antonia White
Restoration by Rose Tremain

but I am a total wimp, it doesn't take much

expatinscotland · 01/09/2006 23:09

'The Scarlet Letter'. That was sad.

SparklyGothKat · 01/09/2006 23:11

'between two enterties' I sobbed like a baby... so sad

UselessMum · 01/09/2006 23:31

I love Anna of Green Gables too!!! I actually want to be Anna of Green Gables!!!

Ellbell · 01/09/2006 23:49

Was going to say 'Between 2 Eternities' SGK, but thought it might actually be too upsetting when pg. Certainly made me cry though!

christie1 · 02/09/2006 01:21

I just read "Map of the world" and it made me choke up. Excellent book. It starts out as one kind of book, does a big left turn and I think, ok, that kind of book, then, off again in a new direction. I really enjoyed it so much.

Joolstoo · 02/09/2006 09:52

oooh no expat - Romance just ain't my cup of tea either - or those stupid films like Pretty Woman - bleurgh!

yoyo · 02/09/2006 21:45

Jools Too - You can get A Tree Grows In Brooklyn from Amazon. I read it years ago and remember it being incredibly moving. Am going to get a copy this week as I was only reading a piece about it the other week.
I thought Private Peaceful was an excellent read and perfectly pitched. Powerful prose for younger readers (DD is 10 and loved it) too.

MoreTeaAnyone · 02/09/2006 21:46

Just had a quick read, Anne of Green Gables, sniff, sniff.

CountTo10 · 02/09/2006 21:51

I can't remember what it was called (no help I know) but it was a true story about a women's time growing up in a nazereth house childrens home (spit) and how it affected her later in life. It was chilling in places and very emotional and bore quite a resembalance to my mums childhood so really struck a chord with me. I'll try and remember what it was called.

MoreTeaAnyone · 02/09/2006 21:52

Bridges of Madison County. Not my usual type of book but, oh how I cried.

Joolstoo · 02/09/2006 22:50

oooh yoyo - thanks for that. I read it years ago and would love to read it again!

JoolsToo · 02/09/2006 22:59

cracking review here in case anyone fancies a read

Gobbledigook · 02/09/2006 23:01

The only book I think that moved me to tears was Teddy Robinson when I was about 8 - some girl pulled his ear off and I still have the book sporting a huge scribble over the illustration

I remember I was reading it in bed and actually went downstairs to blub to my mummy -I was soooo upset. Remember that JT?!

Sorry, as you were.

expatinscotland · 02/09/2006 23:03

some parts of books and lines in particular i've found so much as to move me to tears.

'the hunchback of notre dame', for one. when esmeralda takes sactuary in the cathedral. how the hunchback so loves her!

'bel canto', when she describes Hosokawa's love of opera.

'memoirs of a geisha', when the car almost hits her, that one paragraph, when she thinks what a waste her life could have been.

'jayne eyre', when Rochester describes how he felt upon meeting her. 'I had much ado to avoid straining you to my heart there and then'.

but on the whole these are gems amongst the coals.

Gobbledigook · 02/09/2006 23:04

Oooohhh, LOVE Jane Eyre!

expatinscotland · 02/09/2006 23:13

In the 'Hunchback', when he tells Esmeralda he is too ugly for her to see.

Oh, my eyes were full of tears!

The Hugo poem, 'Demain, des l'aube' that he wrote for his daughter, his first child, who drowned w/her young husband when she was about 21. Moving beyond belief, especially the line, 'See, I know I cannot stay away from you long.'

QueenPeaHead · 02/09/2006 23:18

Fair stood the wind for france. HE Bates. If you liked birdsong then you'll like this.

m1m1rie · 02/09/2006 23:36

Light On Snow by Anita Shreve. Probably because the characters (the family) could have been my family, and I kept putting myself in the place of the mother and imagining my own DDs in the girls' place. Two storylines (one very sad current, another very sad flashbacks) told from perspective of 12 year-old girl. Have been an emotional wreck since birth of DD2 (nearly 3 yrs now!!)

yoyo · 03/09/2006 00:26

GDK - My girls love Teddy Robinson stories. Bought the tape years back but was dismayed to find that it is no longer available. Worked a treat at bedtime!

spykid · 04/09/2006 11:33

The TT Wife...sobbed for ages!
My sisters keeper, Jodi Picoult
PS I love You.
Birdsong
Lovely Bones
The 5 people you meet in heaven

Cry qutie easily really....

mummydoc · 04/09/2006 11:41

My best friends girl - really sad but a little cheesy , also I don't know how she does it - cried becasue i regognised myself in the main character and though i laughed aswell , it was so sad to see how ridiculous my own life had become, i defy any working mother to read it and not see a little bit of themselves...

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