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Ever cried at a book?

Yes
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93%
No
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7%
 
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Post by shilpa khanom »

I don't think I can keep track of books that made me cry, the most recent though is crooked kingdom by Leigh Bardugo and before that it was this absolutely beautiful book called the travelling cat chronicles
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Ice cream with grandpa. It is a book that deals with a boy recounting his experience since he was younger, he liked to spend time with his grandfather, at first because the grandfather gave him ice cream. But the grandfather had Alzheimer's so in each visit the grandfather behaved differently, on some occasions he did not recognize the child and got angry because he believed that he was someone else pretending to be his grandson. In the end the grandfather dies, and the boy remembers him with love. On the last page there is a real photo of the real grandfather and child when they played and ate ice cream.
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I mostly remember books I've read at night because it's more exciting knowing that I need to sleep but recently I cried to It Ends With US by Colleen Hoover and I remember waking up with puffy eyes and dark circles. The book is one of the best books I've ever read.
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The 10th book in the 'Saga of Darren Shan' by Darren Shan. The book is called 'Killers of The Dawn' Without spoiling it, all I can say is that it has a phenomenal ending and a character curve so mind-numbing that it made my then 14-year-old version cry.
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Amberly Ayra wrote: 11 Jul 2022, 10:51 Ice cream with grandpa. It is a book that deals with a boy recounting his experience since he was younger, he liked to spend time with his grandfather, at first because the grandfather gave him ice cream. But the grandfather had Alzheimer's so in each visit the grandfather behaved differently, on some occasions he did not recognize the child and got angry because he believed that he was someone else pretending to be his grandson. In the end the grandfather dies, and the boy remembers him with love. On the last page there is a real photo of the real grandfather and child when they played and ate ice cream.
God, just reading your description almost got me. Mentioning the picture at the end is what really did it, though-- it sound like a lovely homage, but heartbreaking.
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The only book I really remember making me cry is Mockingjay. A friend once complained to me how she disliked the pace of it, but I feel like the events were really masterfully handled. All these important, devastating moments are happening, one after the other, with no time for Katniss to digest or process them. She has to keep moving or it's all for naught—and you, as the reader, equally lack that time to take it in.

It's written in a way that your emotional experience of the events matches hers, step for step. So when it finally catches up to her—when one small, mundane thing brings all of her unprocessed grief crashing down on her... I must have sobbed for ten minutes before I could continue reading it.
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Post by Manik Chaturmutha »

Very few books make me actually cry. But, surely The Kite Runner made me cry and 2 States by Chetan Bhagat as well. I still remember those moments and want to revisit them.
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Books that have made me cry: The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, The Light Between Two Oceans by M.L. Stedman, Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers, and they're a lot more. I am a real cry baby while reading a good, sad, emotional book. But, I have to say, I love them.
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Post by Shireen Ubaid »

Iam a very sensitive person. Whenever I start reading any book I become one of the character and I laugh and cry with them. The part when Dumbledore died in Harry Potter I wept like a baby. I watched the movies several times and only after that did I read the book but still I cried alot. P.S. I love you made me cry from the beginning of the book, then Fault in our Stars, Roddy Doyle's Woman who walked into the Doors are some of my favourite books as well as the books over which I cried alot.
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All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky!
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Jewels by Nora Roberts had me crying .I'm not really an emotional person but this book really touched me
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Almost every book I have read has made me cry. Especially if its a colleen hoover book.
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Post by Jonté Joy »

I've cried reading everyone of Tillie Cole's books oddly. But other than that The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata will always get me going and Whispers and the Roars by K. Webster also had me balling like a baby.
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Post by Sydney Ash »

I am not much of a crier but I found myself in tears at the end of It Ends With Us, by Colleen Hoover. I don't know exactly what it was but the way the book ended just brought me to tears.
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Post by Ammarah Azhar Khan »

Actually the book I nearly cried for was "when time stood still" and I couldn't just complete it. it really hurts m heart whenever I recall that book.
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