15 Day Blogger Challenge: Day 5
Welcome back to Day 5 of my 15 day Blogger Challenge. This challenge is hosted by April over at Good Books and Good Wine. Today’s topic is to recommend a tear jerker.
I don’t cry in books or movies. It drives my mom nuts. She thinks that when something is sad, it’s normal to cry. Instead, I’m the person who will burst out crying over the stupidest commercial that’s not even sad. Obviously, my priorities are a little whacked. However, there were two books that made me cry. No…cry isn’t the write word. Bawl. That’s more like it. There were two books that made me bawl.
If you tell me that you didn’t cry in the last Harry Potter you are a liar. Either that or you have no heart. I BAWLED in this book. SO. MANY. DEATHS. and POOR DOBBY! (Sorry if I just ruined that for anyone.) I was an emotional basket case during this book. J.K. Rowling just started killing off all of these important characters that were with us for several (if not all) of the books. It was devastating!
If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch just came out this year. It’s about a girl named Carey and her little sister Jenessa who have been abandoned in the woods by their mother. Carey’s mom kidnapped her when she was just a little girl and forced her to live in the woods with only beans and other canned goods for food. Her mom had a huge drug problem and would leave the girls in the woods by themselves for days, weeks, months at a time. This time, though, her mom realizes that she has a problem and contacts CPS and the girls are brought to live with Carey’s father.
This story…omg…I was bawling my eyes out about every other page. I don’t think I’ve ever read anything as beautiful as this book. I cried and cried…and then I cried some more. And when it was over…I WAS SO SAD! I need more! I need more of Emily Murdoch that’s for sure.
Note: Emily Murdoch is one of our participating authors in the 2013 Debut Authors Bash. If you would like to host her on your blog this September please go to this link: http://www.yareads.com/2013-debut-authors-bash-sign-ups/news/10669
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Nichole I’ve got If you find me in my TBR pile, I will start reading it ASAP, thanks for the recs!
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If You Find Me definitely made me cry, as well!
I know what you’re going to say, so just virtually slap me. I have yet to read any of the Harry Potter books. It’s not that I don’t think I will like them, I just haven’t gotten around to it. If You Find Me sounds great - can’t wait to get around to reading it.
WHAT?!?!? How dare you! I demand you read the Harry Potter books!!!!!
FINALLY! I kept waiting for someone to choose HP and the Deathly Hallows for their tearjerker. Besides the heart-wrenching deaths, the fact that it was the final installation of the best series any of us will probably ever read was enough to make me bawl! (p.s. I cried as I opened the book after waiting in line at midnight to get a copy, because it was the end of an era)
I’m being honest and admit that nearly every Harry Potter book made me cry! Either for it being so incredibly touching like when Harry realizes that he’s finally getting away from the Dudleys or… at the end ..
I just watched the Deadly Hollows again as a movie and .. I was constantly sobbing! Yep, sobbing!
I just finished Order of the Phoenix and it made me cry so much! I had the worst book hangover after that! I’m sure I’ll cry even more while reading Half Blood Prince & Deathly Hallows! Can’t wait to get my hands on the next book!
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I can’t believe I haven’t read any Harry Potter. This is an obvious problem and I even have the box set sitting in my office right now, just waiting to be read! I haven’t watched the movies, either, because I want to read first.