Books that make me sob? Apparently The Dog That Wouldn't Be.

This is a favorite book of my DH, my sister, and her two kids. So when I saw it on the bookshelf in my room at my sister's, I pulled it down for bedtime reading.

But first, because it's a dog book, and I had a suspicion, I flipped to the last page (I NEVER do this), read just that page, sobbed like a baby, and spent the rest of the week eyeing the book like it was a rattlesnake curled up on the nightstand.

What is it with dog books?

Lately, kids books have been making me cry. Not YA, but children's books. The latest being Knuffle Bunny 3 for which I was not spoiled and read it to Em as my first time reading it. Poor girl. Also, Love That Dog by Sharon Creech - again with the dogs.

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood gets me every time and I read that at least twice a year. Specifically, the story when Vivi looses her basket on Sidda, Baylor, Little Shep, and Lulu.

for which I was not spoiled and read it to Em as my first time reading it.

I'm going to have to call this a Poor Life Choice.

There was this book about a orange tabby tripod cat? And about a hedgehog. Hedgie? And then a book I swear was an LM Montgomery novel (Wives of the Club in the title maybe?) but I can't source it.

Ahrg. But that was years ago. I actually don't turn to books for a crying catharsis anymore. When I need to break, I just think about my parents aging. Ahhhhrg.

I'm going to have to call this a Poor Life Choice.

Indeed. Sobbbing mommies at bedtime are never a good thing.

I don't ever go to books looking for the cry/catharsis, but if the story genuinely delivers, I'm glad to have it. Once, anyway.

Dead Dog Books are their own subgenre.

"I didn't cry when Ol' Yeller died."

Oh, not LMM, Helen Hooven Santmyer. And Ladies of the Club

I have no idea why that one got me so, except it was chronicling full lives from the onset of adulthood to death.