The Velveteen Rabbit.

Early on in our relationship, we were browsing a used bookstore, and Pete waved a gorgeously illustrated version at me, exclaiming "Look! About a toy bunny!"

He couldn't understand why my eyes filled with tears. Pete had never read the Velveteen Rabbit.

Also cried more than once reading The Hunger Games trilogy.

I was just listening to the singing to Rue part last night and totally fell apart. I don't think I cried on the original read though.

I generally don't cry while reading, although I'm a complete sap with visuals.

The first book I remember sobbing over was Where The Red Fern Grows. I've never reread it since.

I sob over Sgt. Bothari.

Now, if I get teary, it's more over Jo's grief, over any missing of Beth.

That's just where I start crying.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, I cry at "Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing."

Also cried more than once reading The Hunger Games trilogy.

Me, too.

Though the best moment is when Bigwig drags himself up and says, "My Chief Rabbit told me to stop you here." And the other rabbits go, "Shit! He's *not* the Chief Rabbit??? There's someone *he* takes orders from???"

Oh, hell yes. I love that scene, and I love that book even though it is a tearjerker in many parts.

I cried repeatedly throughout The Book Thief. I had to stop reading sometimes I was crying so hard. And then again when Mark of Mark Reads read it.

I don't think George Orwell was going for a tearjerker, but when poor Boxer gets taken to the glue factory when he thinks he is going to retire, I cry like a baby. I am even tearing up right now. Poor, loyal Boxer.

I sob over Sgt. Bothari.

Oh, poor Bothari.

It's so hard to read some books in public, because if you start crying someone is bound to say "are you all right?" and then they look at you funny when you say "It's just the book I'm reading."

Leave me to my emotional catharsis, people!

Poor, loyal Boxer

totally

Though the best moment is when Bigwig drags himself up and says, "My Chief Rabbit told me to stop you here." And the other rabbits go, "Shit! He's *not* the Chief Rabbit??? There's someone *he* takes orders from???"

Man, I love that scene. I love Bigwig.

My niece called me this morning looking for a copy of Deathly Hallows: she just finished HBP last night and said she cried, even though she knew what was coming.

Deaths in books don't usually make me cry, unless it's animal deaths. Kill a dog or a horse and I'm all sniffly. The thing that gets me is a last-minute rescue, like the arrival of the Rohirrim at Minas Tirith.