Have you ever CRIED while reading a book?
 

I just CRIED while reading a book. This has only happened to me once before, so I thought I'd share the book with you guys. It's called The Last Noel by Michael Malone. It's a love story, and it is *so* well written. I stayed really absorbed with it and literally had tears running down my face by the end. Highly recommended.

Yep. 'A Child called It' made me cry and also 'Songs My Mother Taught Me' by Lorna Luft.

oh my gosh, that was so terrible(a child called it) i wanted to shoot that mother and she made him eat the baby crap and then he was stabbed.:(

What's your point?

I cried like a little bitch at the (spoilery sad part) of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. I've also been known to cry with Diana Gabaldon novels, and when reading stuff like Neruda.

Yeah I never thought that possible until I read "The Chronicles of Narnia" I did shed a little tear during that story. I love to read, and 99% of the time I am not moved THAT deeply by the printed word...but that story got me. There is a chapter in the Neverending Story which got me weepy eyed too.

Oh, okay. :nod: Thanks for clarifying.

I remember that I cried while reading the sad ending to one of the Redwall books, Salamandastron - but I was young, and hadn't had a good day at school.

I think I recall shedding a tear or two years ago, as a child reading 'White Fang' by Jack London.

I almost never read, but I've cried while writing my own book (which still isn't finished after 5 years but I'm about 2/3 of the way there), does that count?

Oh you & your Neruda.

I cried while reading Maynard Solomon's critical biography of Beethoven.

Oh, cram it. It's impossible to not love Neruda.

My problem is I confuse Pablo Neruda with Pablo Casals. Do you sometimes do that?

Isn't he a conductor? Pablo Neruda's the one I always blame when I wake up in the morning, like today, sporting the world's largest hickey.

One of the best books I have ever read! :nod:

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles. Oh, and Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow.

ITA! Loved it! Lorna's great!

Do you have Blondie's Eat To the Beat album? She sings back-up on some songs.

I do indeed! :nod:

Nope...
 

fallen asleep maybe but never cried!

Deerskin by Robin McKinley. That's the most recent I can remember.
About 65% of books I read are mysteries - those aren't really sad. :)

I got moved by many books, even if not as often as when I was a child (especially for The Diary of Anne Frank). More recently it happened for A grief observed by C.S Lewis, Don't move by Margaret Mazzantini and The Human Stain by Philip Roth.

Romy

Good point, and I have the same problem...

Watership Down choked me up...

I did too! I cried all through the final three chapters I think. My husband came in the room and looked at me like, "Oh come ON!" :lol:

I once cried while reading a statistics book, because I realized the only way I was going to pass the class was if the professor graded on the curve.

Oh I can relate to that. I'm so looking forward to Statistics again when I go to graduate school. :shocked:

The only time I can recall crying while reading was when I read The Perks of Being A Wallflower, last year.

Now, movies? I cry at almost all of them. :laugh:

I love Neruda, too.

Reciting his work is one of the ways to get into my pants! :shocked: :o

Lovely Bones and also the Secret Life of Bees. Both really great books.

Oh, me too. I am a sobbing idiot during movies- don't even get me started there.

Stephanie, The Lovely Bones is one of my alltime favorite books. A couple of years after I'd read it, I listened to it on CD on a roadtrip to Atlanta. SUCH a good book. I've not gotten to the Secret Life of Bees, but I've heard that's a great book as well.

Me too. See earlier post regarding the world's largest hickey.

And darling, I didn't mean to forget you earlier when talking about the history of the Ledge!!

We have much in common, Wifey. :xoxo:

And no worries... I just couldn't pass up an opportunity to tease you about forgetting your own husband. :D

The end of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Dorky, but true.

I usually get a little teary during Lord of the Rings too, even though I've read it more times than I care to admit. :o

No, but I confuse Pablo Casals with Rosie Casals. I have a mental picture of Pablo Casals from album covers, but I have to yank the tennis racquet out of his hand and replace it with a bow every time I hear his name. :o

Oh yes, I have cried many times reading, but the most recent book that made me cry was "The House of Mirth".

Ditto to the above. I couldn't help it, lol. I just get into those books so damn easy.

"The Notebook"

The first book that I cried while reading it. The Altzheimer's issue really got to me because my grandmother was suffering from it at the time.

I cry every year at the end of Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. I have my students do a novel study on it. Even though, I know how it ends; it still makes me cry. It is my favorite children's novel.

Also, The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy made me cry. I think it hit a little too close to home for me. The movie doesn't do this book justice. It is one of my favorites.

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