AJuff Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 I've sat and read most of the day . . so i could finish The Girl in the Red Coat by Roma Ligocka. It has moved me to tears. The only other book I've read that moved me was Blackbird - Childhood Lost by Jennifer Lauck. I think this has something to do with not knowing my mother and mourning the loss of not ever knowing her. What books have moved you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddie Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 A town like Alice, by Neville Shute. Wont watch the film, as I;ve built my own pictures Same for Bridges of Madison County. And a little known book called Walking Ollie. I was in floods. Read it before getting our own dog, and it really made me realise how very fragile dogs are, in all ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Oh, I'm often moved to tears by books - the first one I can remember was 'Black Beauty'! I don't really enjoy 'mis lit' books though - you know, stories about the author's abusive upbringing and hard times. I don't know why but it doesn't make the same impact on me as a really good novel, that can make you reflect on the issues it covers. I'd nominate 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in this category. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 The Five people You meet in Heaven' by Mitch Albom. I read it during the last week of a loved ones life,& it made death seem not so bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperwife Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 I loved 5 people you meet in heaven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 I recently read The Fault In Our Stars and cried for hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 When Hester and Lee Scorsby died in The Northern Lights I sobbed. Also One day made me a cry in a certain bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 Ditto to both of those. Especially Hester & Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 It was so sad and I just loved those characters. They weren't the same in the film Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 I also cried at the end of the last Harry Potter book,just because it was the end of something so special. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quickcluck Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 And Tuesdays with Morrie, Sarah.. did you read that also? Before I die, by Jenny Downham is also wonderful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilovechickens Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 I bawled my eyes out when I read 'The Road' then I watched the film and nearly gave up on life!!! ooh lots of others..'The shadow of the wind' that really touched me-just becuase I was able to picture everything that was going on. 'The Winter Ghosts' again, had great imagery. 'Birdsong' made me cry and I love love love 'the red tent' that moved me because it was about women and how strong they really are. Ooh and 'the beach' by Neville Shute-just so sad What a wimp I am! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickendoodle Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir - it is a novel based around the life of Lady Jane Grey (historically factual but dialogue etc obviously fictional!) Absolutely brilliant book and so well written that I was begging for her not to be beheaded at the end. The final pages were so moving they made me cry. Also the memoirs of Christabel Bielenberg - The Past is Myself. Christabel was an Englishwoman who married a German Lawyer before the war and she lived through the war in Germany as a German citizen. It is one of the few books I have kept and I re-read it every few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meezers Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 I've just finished 'The Winter House' by Nicci Gerrard, think I had a lump in my throat the whole way through and a few tears towards the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 Not heard of that book. I've just spent friday and saturday reading 'Before I go to sleep' I felt quite traumatised reading it. So different to any I've read before. Not moved to tears but definately an emotional response. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 The Book Thief left me in floods, I could hardly see the last few pages. I agree with Before I Die too. Books often move me to tears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
