Comments on: In between sobs

By: mpnbcdygg

mpnbcdygg — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:57:14 +0000

By: Marlie

Marlie — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:04:16 +0000

This is way better than a brick & mortar estblaishemnt.

By: Mrs. S

Mrs. S — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:08:42 +0000

The Time Travler’s Wife and The Amber Spyglass, read within a month of each other, were the first two that got me. It was no coincidence that I was finishing TTW on a Greyhound bus taking me back to college and away from my now-husband! Basically anything with a separation will get me.

Later, I found that several times in The Hunger Games series I didn’t so much get teary as I got the wind knocked out of me, but I did tear up reading the first book aloud to my classes.

By: Ronni

Ronni — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:55:00 +0000

THE GIVER by Lois Lowry. I was reading it at/for work, and I lost it right at my desk.

By: katiecoops

katiecoops — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:51:54 +0000

Whenever I think of crying from reading a book, Beloved by Toni Morrison comes to mind. That book WRECKED me. I shook and sobbed and was generally pitiful. The Old Man and the Sea and Of Mice and Men always makes me cry, even when I was teaching it five periods a day. I just cried every class when we got to the part where the old man comes back or George tells Lennie the story of the rabbits for the last time.

By: Rowenna

Rowenna — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:52:51 +0000

Like Amy, I can’t make it through the Giving Tree without crying–or the Velveteen Rabbit. But what really gets me are poems–Yeats rips at my soul with ‘The Ballad of the Foxhunter.” Which makes me a complete, total corndog.

By: Teri Carter

Teri Carter — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:10:11 +0000

Ann Patchett’s TRUTH AND BEAUTY.

Short stories by Amy Hempl. In fact, Amy did a reading at AWP in February that I barely survived, a new essay she was working on about how dogs at the SPCA see the workers there. Jesus.

Iris Chang’s THE RAPE OF NANKING.

Jane Hamilton’s A MAP OF THE WORLD.

By: Janice Palko

Janice Palko — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:22:31 +0000

The first book that ever made me cry was “Little Women” when Beth died. Other weepers: “Outlander,” “My Sister’s Keeper,” and “Harry Potter.” When Harry looked in the mirror and saw his parents, I lost it. That happened when I was reading the book to my seven-year-old son, and he thought I was crazy.

By: Gill Avila

Gill Avila — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:40:34 +0000

I forgot mention that “Roads” was written by Seabury Quinn and was published in–of all places–Weird Tales.

By: Gill Avila

Gill Avila — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:36:46 +0000

I was 13 when I read “Roads” and I cried. A German mercenary saves a couple and their infant from bandits. In his mind he hears the infant tell him that for what he’s done his name will never be forgotten. Even talking or thinking about (like now!) it makes me tear up, and I’m 62. For sheer power and emotion it easily matches “A Christmas Carol.”