I was late to know about this awesome challenge out together by Good Books and Good Wine,
so when a friend wanted to start it late, I jumped it. There are
several of us joining in - every Friday for 15 weeks, Christina of A Reader of Fictions, Lili of Lili's Reflections, Mickey of I'm A Book Shark and I will post our challenge answers. Stop by their blogs to see their answers! This week's topic is about tearjerkers.
I don't easily cry in real life, but I cry when I read books that get to me. I know I am supposed to pick only one, but that's pretty much impossible.
The novels that have emotionally traumatized me the most are:
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (YOU KNOW WHICH PARTS.)
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
and the ultimate tearkjerker....
Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
These will make you ugly cry, but you'll love them anyway.
OMG YOU LISTED SO MANY BOOKS THAT DESTROYED ME. CNV, Never Let Me Go, The Things They Carried, HP7 (sobsobsobsob), If I Stay, WHERE THE FREAKING RED FERN GROWS... THIS LIST IS PURE EVIL. PURE. EVIL.
ReplyDeleteCode Name Verity did shock me into a quick sob when ... that part... happened. I have a feeling Rose Under Fire is gonna get to me too. I'm also in the middle of The Book Thief but no tears yet. We'll see. Gosh I cannot think of books that made me cry.. I think I blocked them from memory. lol I do remember when I was like 14 I read Message in a Bottle and sobbed buckets.
ReplyDeleteWhoa, that is many. TBH, Code Name Verity did not make me cry. I DNFed Never Let Me Go years ago, but am determined to try again. Also, this is one of those instances where the movie cover kicks the ass of the original. BABY FACE COVERS MUST DIE.
ReplyDeleteIf I Stay did not make me cry. Order of the Phoenix did though. MY FAVORITE CHARACTER WHY.
Where the Red Fern Grows made me sob like nothing else in the world, and while I was sobbing we got a call that my great grandma had had a stroke. Thanks world. Spare me an extra cry.
I don't think The Book Thief made me cry though. Either time.