what book has made you cry?

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last night reading alound voice kept cracking at end of half blood prince - got me thinking...

time travellers wife
birdsong
of mice and men
private peaceful

those are all I can remember for now - must be more....

to kill a mockingbird

of mice and men

The Pearl also, when Coyotito gets shot in the head, awful

Grapes Of Wrath
The Amber Spyglass (on the river of the dead)
to say My Sister's Keeper (I was pregnant at the time I think...)

There are lots of others too, but can't think what right now

lol, I thought Flowers for Algernon was a pile of old pants

Badger's Parting Gifts

I've read that book 4 times now Jura, and cry every single time... you would have thought that after the first 2 occasions of sobbing in public I would have learnt, but no - did it again the 3rd time!! The most recent I stayed home

Primo Levi, If This is a Man (I teach this, but there are a couple of passages which I can't actually talk about in class, because they get me going every time...)

Rosemary Kay, Between Two Eternities

and Charlotte's Web (of course!)

oh god, yes, if i were a man...

lol, if this is a man...

Flowers in the Attic

Not Without My Daughter

A child called it

All reduced me to tears....

Love Marian Keyes so am gonna get 'Is Anybody Out there'

The Amber Spyglass also, where she leaves Pan.

Makes my heart break every time.

Can Any Mother Help Me? Is the only book I've ever cried at. The last article from Cotton Goods when she was a dieing old lady, hallucinating on painkillers that she was listening to her children sing at school. God that made me howl, so poignant that of her whole life the part she 'revisited' was when her children were small.

Selfish Giant
Goodbye Mog
That awful one by Tony Parsons where his wife leaves him with their son....Man and Boy?

God this is embarrassing, I do read proper books....err...
Animal Farm
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Cal
Astonishing Splashes of Colour

sara payne autobiography

Paula - Isabel Allende
On the Beach - Nevil Shute

What's the Marion Keyes one about? Cant remember if I 've read it or not.

Lovely bones nor the time travellers wife did anything for me, emotionally wise, but dd's books tend to set me off...

There was one about a baby elephany frightened of losing his mummy and his mummy told him she would wrestle crocodiles etc to be with him, and so on until utter schmaltz-fest ending....sob!!!

Also Lotties Letter - starts with a dog with a bit of glass in his paw and seques into all the animals in the world signing a petition to some king or other to ask him to get people to stop polluting the earth...there was a pawprint, a clawprint...etc....double sob...can't read it anymore, too painful

DH and I were reading some children's versions of Irish fairly tales to the DCs, both of us were in tears at the end of the Children of Lir (oddly the dcs appeared to think it had a happy ending).

Well, it's not reading - but I've been listening to 'Life Class' by Pat Barker on Radio 4, and one of the episodes left me in tears.

on chesil beach - just finished it last ngiht , in bed , and the very last page was so moving and tragic sad,and it summed up the book so well. two big tears rolled down my cheek.

turqiose
after you have gone , god any page of that book makes me cry.

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