What is it with dog books?
Atherton: Half the men in this room wish you were on their arm, tonight. Inara: Only half. I must be losing my indefinable allure.
'Shindig'
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DebetEsse - Jul 05, 2011 5:36:52 pm PDT #15566 of 28293
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Aims - Jul 05, 2011 5:44:02 pm PDT #15567 of 28293
Shit's all sorts of different now.
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.
DebetEsse - Jul 05, 2011 5:47:17 pm PDT #15568 of 28293
Woe to the fucking wicked.
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.
sarameg - Jul 05, 2011 5:52:01 pm PDT #15569 of 28293
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.
Aims - Jul 05, 2011 5:53:55 pm PDT #15570 of 28293
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I'm going to have to call this a Poor Life Choice.
Indeed. Sobbbing mommies at bedtime are never a good thing.
Amy - Jul 05, 2011 5:54:01 pm PDT #15571 of 28293
Because books.
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.
Kat - Jul 05, 2011 5:54:44 pm PDT #15572 of 28293
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Dead Dog Books are their own subgenre.
Connie Neil - Jul 05, 2011 6:03:20 pm PDT #15573 of 28293
brillig
"I didn't cry when Ol' Yeller died."
sarameg - Jul 05, 2011 6:05:22 pm PDT #15574 of 28293
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.
Strix - Jul 05, 2011 6:30:50 pm PDT #15575 of 28293
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh! I didn't cry with that one, sarameg, but she's an interesting story. Was a published author since the 1920's, I think, but hit the bestseller list when she was 88. Supposedly, the book took her 50 years to write, but she was writing poetry and other books in that time period, so I dunno.
I don't know, if I was an author, if I would be delighted or utterly pissed off, to finally make it big at 88.
I'm bitchy -- I think I'd die grumpy.
Her story is esp. kind of interesting in light of the article Hec linked to.