by Mandi of Smexybooks, guest blogger
It is hard to really think of a book, even a movie that has brought tears to my eyes. I’ve had people tell me JR Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood
However, there is one book in particular and a few movies that I have boo-hooed over a bit. The only book I can ever remember making me cry is The Time Traveler's Wife
I do tend to cry at movies more – Steel Magnolias got me big time. Why did Shelby (Julia Roberts) have to die?? It wasn’t just her death scene that had my tears going, but the reaction of all the women and the way rallied together. By the way, I totally want to be Dolly Parton’s character in real life, except for the lame husband part.
I cried at the end of The Family Stone too, when Diane Keaton’s character had died and the next Christmas the family all shows up and she is not there. When Rachel McAdam’s character starts to decorate the tree by herself…I definitely had some tears.
I also cried at the last episode of Sex and the City when Carrie meets Big on the bridge in Paris. I think those tears were more because the series was over and that series is an absolute favorite of mine. I want to be Carrie in real life too. Can I combine Dolly Parton and Sarah Jessica Parker into one person? HA – that is who I am! I will be a hairdresser living in a trailer but dressing in the height of New York city styles.
So tell me, what books or movies make you weep a little bit or a lot?
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Lilith Saintcrow’s “Dead Man Rising” did it for me for most of the book. Dante was just so miserable through the whole thing, dealing with the death of her lover in addition to what happened to her when she was a child. There’s one scene in which she just says, “I miss you” and I almost fell apart.
Susan Kay’s “Phantom” is another one. The first part of this prequel to “The Phantom of the Opera” that deals with child-Erik and his mother is heartbreaking.
The one that hit me the hardest was Annemarie MacDonald’s “Fall On Your Knees.” Reading that book was like a train wreck.
As for movies – “The Color Purple”. That’s the only movie that gets me every time.
Oh, funny! I’m not a big crier either, though certain movies I’ll mist up. However, I remember watching the Joy Luck Club, tho, and that movie made me cry a lot, in fact so much, I was sort of resentful, like it was emotionally manipulative.
I bawl a lot in movies. Not so much for books. If the angsty drama really gets me then yes, but it’s usually just movies that make me sob like an idiot.
Mandi I loved your post, thanks for visiting LRP. I usually don’t cry at movies, because I’m with other people. I guess it distracts me from what’s really unfolding in the movie. Translation: I’m trying to keep the nacho cheese from dripping all over my clothes. But, I do bawl reading certain books. Huge TJ (Tear jerker) for me Jennifer Haymore’s “A Hint of Wicked.” Beautiful story, but I cried. Now, I will say I have Kenyon’s Dark Hunter series, even read “Acheron” in one week. They don’t make me cry though, “Acheron” gripped tightly at my heart & squeezed hard, but I didn’t cry. Have a great day Mandi!
I don’t cry easily either. But Steel Magnolias tore me up also. Oh and Terms of Endearment, the scene where Emma is in the hospital and telling her boys goodbye. I was about 13 when I first this movie and I boo-hoo’d then. Would prolly again.
But for some reason on Glee last night, when the Glee club sang with the deaf Glee club from another school. This got me a bit choked up, didn’t cry but my throat got tight.
Oh, and I had a really good cry with Queen of Song and Souls. I really cried a good one with that book.
Great post Mandi! Made me think.
Oddly enough as a teen, I cried every time I saw Heaven Can Wait. I watched it about 20 years later and have no idea why it affected me that way. Most recently Wuthering Heights with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche has made me sniffly.
I don’t really cry during books but I just finished a young adult novel that is coming out in March from Angela Morrison called Sing Me To Sleep. I was sobbing like a baby.
And let’s not talk about how I saw Titanic twice and was an emotional wreck.
As I said from time to time Wanderlust was a real tearjerker for me. I don’t cry that often while reading either but that one hit exactly the right spot fro me. I couldn’t stand to read more than 1 chapter at a time. Or better said after after one chapter I couldn’t see the words any longer. Can’t even say why.
Loved your post hon!
Uh, like practically everything. I’m a sap. =/
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