The Tearjerkers

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Books can be one of our best escapes, they educate and inspire, entertain and enrich, make us think and forget and also make us happy or sad. Have you ever cried over a book, we all do I guess. When did you do it? Read something with a lump in your throat or tears in the eye.

Some of the books that have evoked deep emotions are

Love Story by Erich Segal
I guess Love Story is one of the simplest and saddest novels. It has a great plot that doesnt border on filmy notions rather chooses loving and losing as it s main theme making it real, painful and very beautiful.

Angela's Ashes by Frank Mccourt
I cried when Frank started stealing to support his family. Its a moving autobiography detailing poverty in Limerick that won Pulitzer Prize.

Shahabnama by Qudrat ullah Shahab
Shahbnama (is an autobiography of Pakitani civil servant-author-mystic) has been my fave since a decade or so. His obituary of his wife always leaves me with a lump and also when he talks about his mystical correspondence with Ninety. Sadly it hasnt been translated into English.

The Chicken Soup Series
I love reading them not becuase they are so sweet and sentimental but also they uplift me, make me think and count my blessings.

The Qur'aan .
And I always cry whenever I read Qur'aan Shareef. It doesnt make me sad rather fills me with incredible calm and gratitude.

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Cheers HS! I don't usually go for Internet shopping but in this case, I think it's justified :)

Foxglove - Try Amazon. Its worth the collection.

I have been trying to locate "My Feudal Lord" for ages, but none of the libraries seem to have it...

"A Child Called It," by Dave Pelzer. My tears were literally dripping onto the pages...

yeah i read the entire trilogy....but out of the three i definitely liked princess the most.

gonna check out my feudal lord... i, for some reason, are in the mood for non-thought provoking books like bridget jones diary...i need some new titles.

Dazzlingsitar - yeah Princess and did you read Daughters of Arabia? I think in the same vein My Feudal Lord by Tehmina Durrani is sad too - and also a very brave attempt on her part to shred everyone so mercilessly.

the ultimate tearjerker book for me was Princess by Jean Sasson
www.jeansasson.com

The Notebook and Walk to Remember (early Nicolas Sparks works) and Kite Runner gets my props as well

where the red fern grows - I read it in elementary school but I still remember crying buckets when the doggy died :(

The Notebook

arghgggh, i can't see Sonia's comments :(

Righto Human (A)

Yes AFB is. Mistry makes you warm and fuzzy, shocks and mocks, makes you marvel at his genius page after page. Family matters is great too.

* Theres a parallel JE on AFB so better post these comments there from now on.

A Fine Balance is sad too especially the travails of Dina Dalal.

I Loved Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe). Ripped my heart.

lol yes il post one tomorrow. ul love it. i got a huge (1000 pages) poetry book by him.

what u up to these days? its been so tiring since i came back here. random trips across the world arent easy

Yeah missing Neruda Afaq. so time for new je as i read all of yours on him (A)

Afaq gave me Sorrows of Young Werther but i didnt get to finish it.

Thanks for givivng the ending away Nehocrs :P Now we will know what awaits them.

Beautiful. beautiful.

miss neruda. i need to read more and more of him.

I found the Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe) to be so sad, like this incredible weight that is pinned to your chest. Just finished The Glass Palace, and what was annoying at first - that fate was on the side of every character in the book - made the ending a tearjerker, when they are all killed off by war, or really colonialism. Anyone else reading Amitav Ghosh? New discovery for me...

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