I just finished The Next Mrs. Parrish... and this author is great... but I get so emotional reading that I have to take breaks, lol! I loved how it ended though, but she writes so well, that I actually get mad at the characters. This is a second of the series... the first was the same as too! I laugh at myself, but I had to vent to another friend while I was reading! lol! Do you have any books that made you emotional? Share it, I'd love to peek and add it to my list.
Yes, although not just recently. The first book I remember making me emotional was Little Women! Other amazing stories that really got to me - Never Let Me Go by Kazu Ishiguro, The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak, The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, Still Alice by Lisa Genova, The Nine Lives of Charlotte Tayler by Sally Armstrong, A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout and many more...
Oh yeah, I've read some really good books that made me emotional. Your gif reminds me of the first book my oldest read that made him react like that. He was so invested in the characters and one of them died and he got so sad/mad he threw the book across the room. I could tell his emotions were so big and unexpected from a book that I felt both bad for him and proud that he was able to get that attached to characters from a book. Emotional books for me: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay, Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Kite Runn by Khaled Hosseini, A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Winter Garden killed me and I found myself just leaking on an airplane. UGH. Love and hate this at the same time.
Ditto Kristin Hannah, adding in JoJo Moyes who you might know from the Me Before You series (that I think at least the first one was made into a movie)
I cried while reading some of the books mentioned before, like by Fredrik Backman ( I think I cried with the 3 ones written by him that I already read), Kristin Hanna, Jojo Moyes and even the old ones by Nicholas Sparks (Dear John I cried so much!) and The book thief is a must read and cry!! lol now I've been reading more thrillers, so no cry for me...
This happened to me recently with By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult. The book is about the idea that Shakespeare didn’t write his books and one of the writers ,was a woman. The book goes back and forth between Emilia and a current day relative. The Emelia part is a sweeping romance history that spans her whole life. I cried at the end. There have also been books that when I finish I don’t want to leave the story and just go to the beginning and read it again.
Yes, I get deeply involved in some characters and I’m an easy crier, lol. I’m almost ashamed to say it as a Swede, but I don’t like Fredrik Backman books. I don’t know why, maybe it’s better in English than in the original language I read On the beach by Nevil Shute when I was a young teenager and that book really stayed with me for a long time. I think I need to reread it.
This cracked me up about Fredrick Backman. It would be interesting to be able to read his books in both languages to see how different they would be. But, if it makes you feel better, his writing style is definitely different and not for everyone... but I do love most of his books because they are different. I read a lot, and sometimes I feel like there's nothing new to write about, you know?
Absolutely, this! It's more rare for me with a book than a TV show or a movie, but the one that sticks with me the most was one from the book club reading list -- Remarkably Bright Creatures
