Comments on: Sob stories

By: DGLM

DGLM — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:23:52 +0000

Jan, that may be the actual reason why I can't finish Anna Karenina. It does tend to drag on. Maybe it's not that it's a sad book, but rather that it goes on for a zillion pages!

~ Rachel

By: Jan Markley

Jan Markley — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:02:16 +0000

I wasn't such a big fan of Anna Karenina. By page 700 I was like, just throw yourself on the tracks already. It has lead me to coin the phrase 'the Anna Karenina effect' which is when the story drags, and it's enough already, let's have the conclusion! But that's just me!

By: Ellen1250

Ellen1250 — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:43:10 +0000

The Grapes of Wrath, both the book and the movie.

By: Melissa Gill

Melissa Gill — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:18:20 +0000

The first time I read "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" I cried from beginning to end. When my nieces asked me to read it to them, I decided I had to buck up and try not to choke up too bad. I did Okay. But they always look at me like I'm looney when I read them "The Giving Tree" because I just cry and cry every time.

By: Christina F.

Christina F. — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:57:33 +0000

Anne of Green Gables and Little Women both make me cry every time I read them, even though I've read them both so many times I can almost recite them.

By: Brandi

Brandi — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:30:16 +0000

Oops. I misspelled Jeaniene Frost's name.

By: Brandi

Brandi — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:28:44 +0000

Recently, Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy. Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns had me bawling my eyes out to the point that I refuse to read The Kite Runner. I don't like crying when I read. It's okay if it's a little bit, but I cried through the last half of A Thousand Splendid Suns.

I much prefer books that make me laugh. Janeine Frost's Night Huntress series comes to mind. Or Terry Pratchett's books. Adventure, action and laughter for me please.

I'm the same with movies. If it made me cry, good luck getting me to watch it again. Even if I loved it.

By: Buffy Andrews

Buffy Andrews — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:12:32 +0000

When I wrote Ella's Dance, there were many times when I cried. I know that it's sad, but it's also happy. And isn't that how life is? I think if novels make us feel and think, love and hate, cry and laugh that's great. But I also need hope, hope that despite all the bad stuff there is good. When I read Alice Sebold's Lovely Bones, I couldn't stop crying. I don't think I ever read a novel that made me feel so much grief and hate. The emotions it was pulling from me were so great that I had to remind myself that it was just a novel, it wasn't true. Thank you for your post today, Rachel. Blessings, Buffy

By: Kristin Laughtin

Kristin Laughtin — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:58:41 +0000

It was repped by your agency, actually: THE SPARROW, by Mary Doria Russell.

By: Alli Sinclair

Alli Sinclair — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:52:27 +0000

The Alphabet Sisters by Monica McInerney

I sobbed so hard in the last 60 pages I had to keep putting the book down, wipe my eyes and take a deep breath before I could continue. Any book that can do that is awesome in my world.