All About Books discussion

Cathie wrote: ""

Me too, Cathie!

Recently it would be We Are Called to Rise. The only one that comes to mind from past reading is The Notebook. Or books about dogs - My Dog Skip and Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog.

Odd Thomas

The twist gets me every time.

Heather wrote: "Sophie's Choice and Me Before You; Charlotte's Web and Black Beauty from the first time I read them as a child.
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Yes all of those too. Did you know there is a sequel to Me Before You coming out?

Oh that's a tricky one! I guess I have to say Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, when so many great characters that I loved died. The Perks of Being a Wallflower was pretty intense for me too. But no book has made me cry like The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, that was something else.

Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass. This is non-fiction and it will make you cry. Seriousuly. I am crying now.

It is when Karen Bixen leaves Africa!

ETA: Gosh, Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass is throwing me up and down like a yo-yo! I had some nagging worries when reading sections of Out of Africa, but in Shadows on the Grass it becomes blatantly clear that Karen Blixen was a racist. She may love Africa, but she does not see the "natives" in the same class as Whites. Somalis she judges differently too. I am very upset.

Chrissie wrote: "Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass. This is non-fiction and it will make you cry. Seriousuly. I am crying now.

It is when Karen Bixen leaves Africa!

ETA: Gosh, ..."

I haven't read Shadows on the Grass Chrissie, but Out of Africa moved me. I quite liked it. Based on what you're saying, I'm glad I didn't continue onward to the next one. That would've disturbed me too.

Greg, I was in tears when I finished Out of Africa, and now this, the first essay of the four in Shadow on the Grass, called Farah, hits me with a blow. You maybe remember Farah is her Somali manager at the farm. A few lines earlier in Out of Africa had me worried but now her views are clear as day. Three of the essays are written in the 50s, and one in the 60s. Greg, isn't it better to know her true sentiments?

I cry reading when she wanted to kill herself. Felt so bad for her. Glad she didn't.

Nancy wrote: "I cry reading when she wanted to kill herself. Felt so bad for her. Glad she didn't."

Can you please add also the title to the cover of the books you're writing about? When, like me at the moment, you use a tablet or mobile phobe, sometimes you can't read which book it is!
Thanks

ok Dark Confessions of an Extraordinary, Ordinary Woman. I'm new on goodreads.

Thanks Nancy!

Most recently, it was Megan and her fate in The Girl on the Train

I felt bad for Rachel till she turned into an absolute moron and infiltrated the couple's life, but well, that was how we got to the end and her self-realisation so whatever.

Btw on a side note, Emily Blunt is playing her in the film version - she better pile on the pounds, because Rachel was supposed to be fat and puffy - lost her looks kind of a thing. And Rebecca Ferguson (kick-ass agent from MI-5) is playing Anna - and Ferguson does not look meek or subordinate which is what anna's character was till the very end! And I did not imagine Rachel 'shrewish' even though she did sleep around and was damaged but Haley Bennet looks like an out-there vamp. All three will need loads of makeup to look the parts, because it is all psychological and dependent on how each appeared.

Noorilhuda wrote: "Most recently, it was Megan and her fate in

I felt bad for Rachel till she turned into an absolute moron and infiltrated the couple's life, but well, tha..."

Same with you Noorihulda: can you please add the title of the book to its cover?
And I'm finishing this book right now, and finding it quite well written

@Laura T - done. and yeah, I liked the book too.

Me too!

Definitely The Road, I sobbed and sobbed when I got to the end. No other book I've read has had this reaction. I did shed a tear while reading A Man Called Ove last week though.

Jessica, for me A Man Called Ove was happy tears :)

I was just reminded in the nonfiction thread of All Quiet on the Western Front -- that one definitely had me weeping!

Leslie wrote: "I was just reminded in the nonfiction thread of All Quiet on the Western Front -- that one definitely had me weeping!"

Me too Leslie - definitely!

Greg wrote: "Leslie wrote: "I was just reminded in the nonfiction thread of All Quiet on the Western Front -- that one definitely had me weeping!"

Me too Leslie - definitely!"

Oh, it's my next-up read (will be picking up the book from my library next week), after I've finished The Odyssey!

I cry everytime I read Beth's death in Little Women & Good Wives

LauraT wrote: "I cry everytime I read Beth's death in Little Women & Good Wives"

In my old copy (now gone), those pages were easy to identify because the paper was all wavy from being weeped upon!

I know!!!

Death of a Salesman after the death of my father made me cry. Until this day, it is the only book that has.

Greg, so sorry to hear about your father!

Most recently, The Grapes of Wrath and then I Shall Be Near to You did as well.

Chrissie wrote: "Greg, so sorry to hear about your father!"

It was a long time ago, Chrissie, thanks anyway.

Greg wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Greg, so sorry to hear about your father!"

It was a long time ago, Chrissie, thanks anyway."

So you are the new Greg?! Phew. People with the same names are confusing.

Chrissie wrote: "Greg wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Greg, so sorry to hear about your father!"

It was a long time ago, Chrissie, thanks anyway."

So you are the new Greg?! Phew. People with the same names are confusing."

Check the avatar. The old Greg has a face.

Greg wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Greg wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Greg, so sorry to hear about your father!"

It was a long time ago, Chrissie, thanks anyway."

So you are the new Greg?! Phew. People with the same na..."

OK, yours is bluish. My avatars are blurry.

Chrissie wrote: "Greg wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Greg wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Greg, so sorry to hear about your father!"

It was a long time ago, Chrissie, thanks anyway."

So you are the new Greg?! Phew. People wit..."

It's a photo of the earth's horizon from space. Very Rothko, I think.

Greg, you mean the painter? I see what you mean. Particularly when blurry......

The tears ran down my face during the last chapter of How Green Was My Valley last weekend.

"My Sister's Keeper"
by Jodi Picoult. And I don't know any reader who had read and not cried.

My Sisters Keeper made me cry for ages. Also the boy in the striped pyjamas. I'm sure there are a few more too!