CPL's Book a Week Challenge discussion

Let's talk tears. What books have made you cry? Both "small tear in corner of the eye" and full on sobbing? Or does it depend on what else is happening at the time? Or do you find that you don't get overly emotional with your books?

I am generally more of the latter category. I feel emotional when I read but generally not enough to translate into tears. But it happens. Usually because the emotions of the character are so well conveyed. This is going to contain some spoilers for the Queen's Thief series... but I sobbed my way through book 2, The Queen of Attolia, when I read it a couple weeks ago. There's something that happens that I actually knew about going into the book. But I thought it happened later, not within the first couple chapters. The rest of the book is the fall out of the event and she does not pack punches. Turner is great at conveying emotions with simple sentences. It almost made it more painful for me to read. And just when I thought I was going to be okay, she'd drop just a small line and I'd be sobbing again.

This is still a fairly rare occurrence for me.

What about you? What books have made you cry?

I have read the Ken Follett's Century Trilogy over the past calendar year. They are great books, but they have made me tear up at times. To me, honestly, it just shows how great this series really is. I highly recommend it if anyone it interested in modern historical fiction.

Lonesome Dove was the first book I cried at. Then the Harry Potter books when Dumbledore died. It is rare for me too.

I'm sure I have just bawled reading some books, usually the ones that really ticked me off at the same time. The one book that comes to mind is Hamilton- the biography by Ron Chernow, particularly his writing about Eliza, both in the Preface and at the end of the book.