Not that I read a lot, but up until a few days ago, only two books ever made me cry: Eugene O’Kelly’s memoir Chasing Daylight, Read the full post.
Apr 21
2009
07:36 PM ET
PopWatch Confessional: The book that made you cry
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The only book (I read about two per week) that has ever made me cry was “Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas”. I don’t know why, maybe it’s because I had a baby at the time. The made for t.v. movie was horrible by the way.
Extremely Loud and Incrediby Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.
I cried during almost all of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower and during This Lullaby when Remy sees how easy it is to get Monkey to love her.
When Harry converses with Dumbledore in Deathly Hallows I began sobbing and could not stop for quite awhile. Another time that springs to mind is while reading the end of Atonement.
I weep whenever I finish “Charlotte’s Web”. I’ve never read a more beautiful account of the meaning of true friendship.
When I read “The Time Traveler’s Wife” my husband had to hold my sobbing self for an hour.
My mother had to console me at the end of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”
I didn’t cry at the end of “Liar’s Club,” which I took as a sign that I was doing a better job dealing with my father’s death. But when I told Mary Karr about it at a writer’s conference (during the 2 year anniversary of his death) I wept. Rather embarrassing, actually. She gave me a hug and told me it would be okay.
“Jacob Have I Loved” – by Katherine Patterson (author of Bridge to Terabithia). Terabithia is definitely heart-breaking, but I sobbed like a baby reading Jacob…
I was a puddle when I read Freak the Mighty.
And I cried multiple times while reading Deathly Hallows.
The Lovely Bones
Ok, so everyone kept saying “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” so I went and looked it up on wikipedia to find out why people cry during it and I actually cried reading the summary. New low.
There are two non-fiction books that make me cry because they UPSET me, in an angry sort of way. One is “The Great Deluge,” a book about Hurricane Katrina. Many stories are heart-wrenching, but many, many more were so NEEDLESSLY tragic. That’s what makes me angry. Also, “Local People,” a book about the civil rights movement in Mississippi. Again, it’s tragedies caused by human ignorance, stupidity, etc. As a Mississippian and Katrina survivor, both books literally hit me where I live. Both make me wish I had been around and had influence to knock sense into the people who caused both man-made disasters. For me, it’s the “real stuff” that hurts the worst — it’s not just sad, it’s history.
The Lovely Bones for sure
Glad I’m not the only one, but The Time Traveler’s Wife made me cry. The final moment they share out on the patio swing? C’mon. I’m getting misty eyed just thinking about it.
East of Eden
Too many to count. I have certain ones that I read when I know I need a good cry. The Thornbirds is one of them.