Books that make you cry... - Page 3

[Danielsmom]

HP and the half-blood prince.
Bridge to Terabithia (wonderful book)
Lovely Bones
The Spirit Catches you and you fall down
The last chapters of one thousand white women
The kitchen god's wife (tear-jerker throughout most of the book) and the Bonesetter's Daughter
Precious Bane
Adam Bede (when Hetty abandons her child, the confession scene)
Where the Red Fern Grows (good book and movie)
Old Yeller
The scene in By the Shores of Silver Lake when Jack the bulldog dies
chapters in James Herriot's books
certain scenes from We Were the Mulvaneys
Ellen Foster
Angela's Ashes
All Souls Day
Some of the dog books by Albert Payson Terhune (Lad, a Dog)
Hans Christian Anderson stories (the steadfast tin soldier, the little match girl and the christmas tree stories)

Then there are books I've read where I didn't cry but I cried watching the movie. Braveheart, and Dances with Wolves come to mind.

[georgia]

I was waiting to pick up our dinner tonight, and had 30 minutes to spend (alone ). I went to the bookstore and read the last chapter of The Grapes of Wrath. Just for the heck of it. It takes me back to where I was the first time I read it. Books can be so powerful.

The first book that ever made me cry was Where the Red Fern Grows. I knew right then and there I knew I was on to something special

Oh, I think we should start an Owen Meany Tribe! Owen Meany boo-hooer here, yearly. Owen gets me every time.

[zaftigmama]

What an awesome thread! It reminded me of so many good books that I haven't read recently.

Doesn't take a lot to make me cry - but usually it's the tears-running-down-my-face type of thing. A few books have made me put them down so I could sob and bury my face in my pillow and grieve. Those are the ones I remember.

A few that come to mind are Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg. And Comfort Me With Apples by Ruth Reichl, which was so, so good. A sequel to her excellent Tender at the Bone.

I can't think of anymore, but I'm sure I will.

Take care!

[Janelovesmax]

I love to have a good cry over a good book. Here is my list:

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
"The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom
"The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold

And do you REALLY want to cry cry cry? Read "A Child called "it" by Dave Peltzer.

By the way, I'm embarrased to say, but I've never even heard of this book: Where the Red Fern Grows
What is it about? Would you recommend it?

[natrowmum]

i don't just cry at hallmark cards--i cry at hallmark card commercials

these are the 1s i weep at every single time i read them

old yeller & savage sam by fred gipson when yeller dies & when sam runs his paws bloody

stranger in a strange land by robert a. heinlein i weep & weep when he dies &

the last herald mage series by mercedes lackey (dh walks into a room sees me crying over these & walks out shaking his head saying "i don't get it, why?") when Vanyel's too afraid of failing to kill himself, when tylendel dies & he tries to kill himself, when he figures out why he should protect the "common people" when he gets attacked when he dies. i cry off & on throughout the whole series. i have no idea why it gets to me so bad.

little women, little men & jo's boys by louisa may alcott when beth dies, when dan lies to protect nat & john brook dies & meg invites the children to the funeral & when they talk about what dan has become & how he's not good enough for laurie's daughter. ugh. where's my happy ever after for dan? the first time i read jo's boys i cried for hours, my mum thought something was really wrong with me but i was traumatized because it was the first non-happy ever after book i ever read, i was 8 but it still makes me cry.

[natrowmum]

ooh i forgot one!

the real little mermaid--where every step on land hurts her