by Alison Janssen
It seems like everything I'm reading (or watching -- LOST, I'm looking at YOU) these days is making me cry. Buckets.
Granted, I'm an easy crier, but this is a lot even for me.
I read The Hunger Games last Sunday, and at once point was so inconsolable that my fiance took the book out of my hands and replaced it with a PS3 controller, so I could cheer myself up by making Spiderman swing through the city. (Which worked for a time, the Spiderman game is AWESOME, but I had to get back to Kat and Peeta and Rue -- and I picked up book two, Catching Fire, and plan to dive in this weekend.)
A couple weeks ago, I finished The Ask and the Answer, and spent a good deal of those last chapters quietly sniffling into some tissues.
I love being so invested in characters that when terrible, atrocious things happen to them, I relieve the stress by crying. I love having enough time in the aftermath of an upset, when the author slows things down and lets the characters (and readers) mourn, to wipe my face and catch my breath and drink some water.
When an author can make my eyes well up with a single phrase, I'll be their reader for life.
What books inspire tears for you?
