Natasha said:
I do actually get teary quite often with books, which is fine if I am
reading to myself but is a problem if I am reading aloud. I can't get though
Shirley Hughes's "Dogger" without my voice cracking at the end, and I just
did the same when reading reading the poem about Leerie the Lam
"I have a dreadful time with some of the books Freya brings home from
infant school. The worst one, which she has brought home twice, is
called 'Badger's Parting Gifts' or something like that - in which Badger
dies and all his friends are very very sad but then they start to
remember all the good
Pam said:
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Just reading this thread has brought a lump to the throat (hope it's not
mumps)... Badger's Parting Gifts, Daddy, my Daddy, The Silver Sword, the dog
being shot in I Am David, they're all guaranteed to set me off. I'm afraid my
classes had to get used to it. The worst time for
" Let alone the "Daddy, my Daddy" scene in The Railway Children. Or the last
page of I
Am David..."
Yes, me too. The Railway Children is probably the one which soaks most of
my handkerchiefs. The end of The Last Battle also makes me weep, and
Nicola finding Giles and Peter at the end of Run
Last page of Watership Down (Hazel dies).
Goodbye Mog, which I will not even buy because it upsets me so much.
A book I used to read to my kids when small which I KNEW was cheap
sentiment but which got me every time - I love you forever. About how a
mother looks after her son and then the roles a
I will add to those who have already mentioned the end of The Railway
Children and The Incredible Journey, I have tears in my eyes at the thought of
them.
A terrible, terrible book for making me cry is The Velveteen Rabbit,
shockingly sad.
I expect most of GO will laugh at me for this (but
Jane wrote:
>I recently found, after years of searching, The Ten Pound Pony, by Veronica
>Westlake, which ends with a huge family reunion (not quite "Daddy, my
Daddy"
>but getting on for). Had just reached this bit and was standing there
>sniffling, book in hand when in walked the electrician.
I'
Oh yes, yes, yes! Forgot all about it, but had a reread just a couple of
months ago and it just gets worse with each reread! DD is top of my reading
list in every possible way and I just wish more people read her. Luckily
I've a friend nearby who's also a fan so we can chat.
Rose
Cape Town
Sue
Walter dying in Rilla, yes... but even more, the end chapter, where Jem finally
comes home to his Dog Monday! Sob, sob, sob!!
Songs do it for me, too. I've cried buckets at "Puff the Magic Dragon" and -
surprisingly - "Tie a Yellow Ribbon"!
And there's a Swedish song - "I Met Lassie", about a l
I have a dreadful time with some of the books Freya brings home from infant
school. The worst one, which she has brought home twice, is called
'Badger's Parting Gifts' or something like that - in which Badger dies and
all his friends are very very sad but then they start to remember all the
good t
Helen asked:
What is it about Dogger? I think I've only read it once, and don't
remember
feeling particularly tearful.
It's just a very ordinary kindness of a big sister to her little brother, I
don't know why it makes me cry but it does, even after the umpteenth time.
Unlike Tig, the end of Ou
HelenRP said:...Reading aloud is definitely worse than reading
something to myself. I stood in a bookshop and read 'Goodbye Mog' with
not a tear in sight. But I'm quite sure if I read that aloud to the
children I would be in floods of tears!
Me:
The Snow Goose always does it for me - especial
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Helen asked:
What is it about Dogger? I think I've only read it once, and don't
remember
feeling particularly tearful.
It's just a very ordinary kindness of a big sister to her l
Not having children of my own, I've never had the pleasure (or sorrow!) of
reading aloud a sad ending to a small child (my friends know better than to
pass their small things over to me!) But I have struggled to maintain my
composure when reading aloud to a class of 30 11 year olds, especially
beca
The incredible journey is the one that does for me! I couldn't
contemplate trying to read it aloud!!
PatW
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Me:
The Snow Goose always does it for me - especially reading aloud. Not
much else though.
Sue N
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Me: Yes, definitely the Snow
Glad to know so many other people get tearful over sad parts of books! I'm
another one who gets set off by Beth's death in Good Wives, also Auntie's
last letter to Jacynth in Gay Lambert at the CS (never seen the hb yet, so
don't know if it's even more tear-inducing there!) But the one that real
I agree totally about Incredible Journey, Masha, Railway Children, Rilla,
etc: but the one which did for me to such an extent that I can't bear to
re-read it is Dorothy Dunnett's 'Pawn in Frankincense' - for those of you who
know
it, I only need to say 'Chess game'.
Not GO, but a lot of GO
The one that really gets me is in HP and the Goblet of Fire, when Dumbledore
is telling Harry about Neville's parents and how they're in St Mungo's and
Neville visits them in the holidays - and they don't recognise him. That
just gets me, more than almost any other thing in books. I cry much more
e
I think I am going to buy shares in Kleenex.
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Pat said...
> Me: Yes, definitely the Snow Goose, also another couple of Paul
> Gallico's - Jennie and Thomasina.
Oh yes, I always bawl my eyes out at *that* point in "Jennie". Also at
various points in the "Emily" books, Matthew's death in AoGG, Jack being
presumed dead in "Highland Twins"...an
Dorian E. Gray wrote:
> *And* films and plays and >musicals (much sobbing in "Les >Miserables",
"The Phantom of the Opera" does it for me every time...
> and TV shows (certain >episodes of "Buffy the Vampire
> Slayer"...).
What episodes, precisely?
Kait - a Buffy fan
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I was reading The Railway Children last weekend. Bawling my eyes out at
the"Daddy, oh my Daddy" scene while Matt laughed at me. I just avoid reading
it
anywhere but in the privacy of my own home.
I also cry when Jack is lost at sea and Joey is not coping in Highland Twins.
Getting teary just
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End of House at Pooh Corner
End of Railway Children
Kipling -Centurion's song
andnot sure I can drag it into GO,but has anyone else read 'Little Boy
lost' by Marghanita Laski: Child goes missing in war in France,father finds
child in orphanage who might be his son, decides he isn't but he will
More than once I've advised parents borrowing Granpa from the library to
read it before that read it their their children. I've read some beautiful
and very sad picture books (like Jenny Angel) but I wouldn't want to find
myself explaining them to my two without knowing it was coming.
On the o
Marguerite mentioned
the ending of 'Little Boy Lost' by Marghanita Laski. Oh, lor! I feel weepy
again. And the ending of The Once and Future King. There's a short story by
Katharine Mansfield, called 'Old Ma' something - can't remember the name. It was
part of a GCSE set text, and none of us
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