I almost never cry while reading - but it happened to me very recently for the second time in my life. I was reading "Know My Name" by Chanel Miller, and I completely welled up on the part where she gets letters of support. I love women supporting women and it was very clear how much that meant to her. Hence the waterfalls on the train 😭😭😭
Your skin looks so good and vampirish in contrast to your shirt, hair, makeup, and background! But then, when you hold the NLMG book up, your skin glows! Either way, you look beautiful. I also think it's so wholesome how you talked about your emotions. You have such a way with words. 🥺 Anw, just felt the need to say that. Imma continue the video now. 😅 Can't wait to hear more of what you gonna say. Muah!
I was finishing "Into the Wild" from Jon Krakaeur on my bus ride to work, and I almost lost my stop, I was crying so hard. Many people were staring at me like I was crazy. And I did not use to cry at all with books and films, but after having my kid, it seems my hormones never recovered and now I cry every other book, sometimes I don't even know why. 🤷 Oh, and I cried a lot with Heaven as well...
Willow I just know (if you don't already) that you'd be a Boygenius music girlie. Lucy, Phoebe, and Julien are phenomenal - in both using their platforms to support trans/queer folks and also being extremely talented. If you already listen to them, I'd love to know your fav songs! 😈💜💙💚
I only came across your channel yesterday but I just want to say I’m really enjoying your videos and recommendations.. the way you describe books is very clear and I immediately want to consume them all. Your love for them really shines through and even though you said you are not a teacher anymore , I feel that you would make a really good understanding one. The way you described your school life reminded me of my own experience of it too eventhough it’s now 20 years since I left, I try not to reminisce about it too much because it’s like you relive those moments again and what are now scars become wounds again, so it might take me awhile to get to the one about the bullying . ❤
I cry very VERY easily. With songs, movies, videos, when I argue... But books have rarely made me cry. Demian by Hesse made me cry. And last week, the manga Solanin made me tear up a lot. I guess existentialism makes me cry.
A decade after the Columbine school shooting, I read Dave Cullen's book, Columbine. An emotional interview with one of the teachers just made me break. It all just hit so close to home. I remember the horror of watching the events unfold, live on television, with the rest of the nation. Being in highschool at the time, it literally changed everything. Until that time, I'd never seen anything like it.
"Columbine" is one of the most impressive books I've read at just the sheer scale of sincere investigative journalism and his dedication to showing the world the truth behind the masacre. Me and my friends were all in the graduating class of 1999 and we had completed our coursework at the time the shooting happened and it was so confusing and scary to be on my way out of that universe but knowing all the people who would come later that would live with the uncertainty that Columbine brought about. Would have never guessed it would become ... almost common place.
I actually came across your channel because of ur heaven review and I’m so glad I did because it’s given me hours of entertainment on your channel . Also I’m glad you brought up the philosophical scene in heaven because something about that scene made me angry and sad at how I couldn’t really understand the logic yet I couldn’t argue against it.not many reviewers brought that scene up thank you.
What a touching video! Loved the story where you came full circle - and glad you became friends with "the bully." ❤ 😍 In my 50's I still hadn't read "Watership Down," but desperately wanted to. It just happened to be one of my girlfriend's favorite books, so she figuratively held my hand throughout the reading of it. Couldn't have done it without her and loved, loved, loved it! Tears do not come easily for me and this one pulled at my heartstrings.
I was really pleased to wake up to a new video, something to help my work shift go a little faster. :) I'm the kind of person who also feels a lot, but struggles to be emotionally vulnerable in front of other people, lol. However, one type of book above all others will almost always make me cry, and those are stories primarily featuring animals/pets. The first book to ever make me cry was a children's book called "I'll Always Love You" by Hans Wilhelm, which is a story about saying goodbye to a beloved pet. When I was very young I'd read that over and over again. I still can't read it without getting emotional! Thank you for this great video and all these fantastic recommendations. :D
Never Let Me Go is one of my favorite books, not least because it makes me cry. I saw the movie first, which is lovely. But the writing in the book is so powerful, it wasn't spoiled.
I almoust never cry while reading and one book that had me in tears was the little prince - reread it after more than 10 years and ugly cried through last few pages
It is a rare book that makes me cry. I'll never forget the first time I read 1984. I was on vacation with my family and I was reading it for a HS English class during the summer. I was so into it that I went to the bathroom at the hotel to finish reading it and the ennding devastated me to the point where I was sobbing in the bathroom, trying desparately not to awake any of my family members who I *knew* woludn't understand that 1, the book was worth staying up late into the night to read and 2, why I had been so moved.
Lincoln in the Bardo. I don’t think any book has ever been so funny and strange but also succinctly shown what it is to experience grief and accept loss. I lost my mother when I was a teen. I’m now in my 40s and reading that book allowed a cathartic cry I didn’t know was still in me. I can’t wait to read the only one of these I haven’t explored which is “little” . Lauren Groff has become an author whose book releases have become events to me and the Vaster Wild’s lived up to its expectations.
I've always been able to let a novel break my heart until tears flow. If the writers good at their art I'm involved. It was seeing the sensitivity and tenderness of the situation in the movie The Remains of The Day, that released the pain and tenderness we readers were witnessing.
Love this video! I don’t cry that often either - but I agree about Never Let Me Go. I also cried reading Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. And I read Gone With the Wind when I was 14 and cried for days! Love Pullman - I was privileged to meet him once.
Klara and the Sun made me cry. Oh yay! I just got The Vaster Wilds! The third book in the Shadow of the Fox series by Julie Kagawa made me cry when I was 29 or 30
I resonated so much and felt so validated when you shared that you are a deep feeler but rarely cry.. I too feel things so deeply and have been told I’m very sensitive (not in the praising sense), but I’ve learned to accept and love those aspects of myself too. I think that’s why I’m so drawn to this channel and your reviews because of how much passion you have for your books, I can just feel what those books mean to you, and it quite actually manifests in me buying those books which I just purchased “Heaven” and “Never Let Me Go” from Blackwell’s because I love the title covers from the UK over the ones here in the US 😅 as always, thank you so much for your reviews and sharing the books that so deeply touch you!
im very emotionally dysregulated due to my adhd and if i didnt have medication for it i would literally cry every single day, i still cry a lot but i never understood crying at films or books etc until i was older, i always thought something was wrong with me but i think i was just too young at the time and somwtimes i wish i didnt cry that easily, because its exhausting ngl xD
Poetry makes me tear up with some regularity while a usual narrative rarely has. Poetry is just stuffed with music, meaning and the best words so it's kinda hard to help it. Stuff like Poe's "Alone", Borges "1964", Quevedo's "Amor constante, más alla de la muerte", Dickinson's "If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking", Woodsworth's "Tintern Abbey", Baudelaire's "Le Voyage", etc.
His Dark Materials!!! I was a full-grown woman of 40 when I read those. Bawled my eyes out by how the trilogy ended. So very good! 😭 Then I watched part of the adaptation they did years later for HBO (streaming service). I cried again, but for entirely different reasons. It was such an awful adaptation! 😂
As a teen, The Lottery Rose (as required reading) made me break down and seriously cry for hours. I'm sure several other books made me cry as well, but this one really stands out in my memory.
I cry a lot. Like, A LOT. Sad tears, happy tears, angry tears... but all of them because of art, not life. Gosh, when I was first watching The Return of the King in 2003 in cinema I began crying at the first scene and just never stopped. Books? Yep, definitely. The last one that made me cry was As long as the lemon trees grow. Sobbed. A great story.
oof, I feel you on the hormones. While switching from one oral contraceptive to another I cried twice on the same trip to the grocery store- once out of happiness and once out of frustration. Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune had me crying almost constantly through the last 90 pages. It’s even worse when you realize he wrote it to help himself deal with the loss of his partner.
One of the things I'm reading at the moment is "Tomorrow factory" by Rich Larson, it's a selection of short sf stories and "All that robot shit" really got my eyes watering yesterday. Of course in the bus, because I always have to read things that make me cry in public transport, like Svietlana Alexievich.
Such good video ! 🤗 I never cried for fiction (so far) even though I have been deeply moved by “heaven” or “Demon Copperhead” or “the bluest eye”recently: these books stay with me for a long time after reading and I experienced sadness through them without a tear though, on a different level 🤔. They left a trace. But when it comes to non fiction, like “wild swans” (Jung Chang) or “killing fields”, I can’t stop crying. Yet, the non fiction books I mentioned can happen in real life, they could be non fiction as well … i can’t explain… as for films, “king kong” (I was 10), or “edward scissorhands” left me inconsolable, I cried all along: the injustice, the cruelty against the person or creatures that are “different”, “too much” make me feel so so triste, vraiment , since I was little !! (Can’t watch these films again)
I'm trying to think of a book that made me cry and I can't, though I'm sure there must be one or two. I've been deeply moved by books but they don't seem to make me cry. A sad film on the other hand can very easily make me cry. It's weird how some forms of media can make us cry while others don't
I never cry at books, even ones I’m really invested in… I thought I was a robot but then I discovered I have aphantasia… so I think I just don’t connect fully with characters because I can’t make them real in my mind? Who knows. I did tear up at the Heartstopper books, particularly when Nick came out to his mam. I suppose it’s cheating when it’s a graphic novel coz I don’t have to do any of the imagining myself 😂 I really must get to His Dark Materials. They’ve been recommended to me by almost everyone 😂
I have to mention Betty by Tiffany McDaniel. It tore me apart and I cried multiple times while reading. It’s on track to be my favourite book of the year. If you do read it, check trigger warnings.
The only books I can think of that have made me cry are The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Crossroads by Laurel Hightower, Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton, and recently I shed a few tears while reading Mona Awad's new book Rouge. Now I kind of feel like dnfing it just for that. 😅
The song that makes me sob instantly every time I hear it is Kick by Spanish Love Songs. It’s a story about cycles of addiction within a family and it has me bawling
1:38 I'm currently just halfway through Never Let Me Go and i'm curious to see if it'll have this effect on me 😂😂😂😂 kinda spoilers ahead until the half of the book: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I've recently learned that the kids we follow are clones made to be organ donors once they grow up. With that in mind, I'm sure the tears come from these characters dying bc of all their donations or being upset when faced with their "possible" (the human in which they were cloned from). Well, those are my predictions at least 😅😅😅 i want to comment to see if i was right once i finish. Will i cry??? time will tell!!
Oh goddess, The Vaster Wilds was absolutely heart breaking, I am still recovering from it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a soothing story to help with the recovery? 😅
@@WillowTalksBooks Old Yeller was formulaic a kid-lit book about a boy and his dog. Disney made a movie of it in the fifties. A facetious comment 'nuff said.
I almost never cry while reading - but it happened to me very recently for the second time in my life. I was reading "Know My Name" by Chanel Miller, and I completely welled up on the part where she gets letters of support. I love women supporting women and it was very clear how much that meant to her. Hence the waterfalls on the train 😭😭😭
Your skin looks so good and vampirish in contrast to your shirt, hair, makeup, and background! But then, when you hold the NLMG book up, your skin glows! Either way, you look beautiful. I also think it's so wholesome how you talked about your emotions. You have such a way with words. 🥺 Anw, just felt the need to say that. Imma continue the video now. 😅 Can't wait to hear more of what you gonna say. Muah!
I was finishing "Into the Wild" from Jon Krakaeur on my bus ride to work, and I almost lost my stop, I was crying so hard. Many people were staring at me like I was crazy. And I did not use to cry at all with books and films, but after having my kid, it seems my hormones never recovered and now I cry every other book, sometimes I don't even know why. 🤷
Oh, and I cried a lot with Heaven as well...
Willow I just know (if you don't already) that you'd be a Boygenius music girlie. Lucy, Phoebe, and Julien are phenomenal - in both using their platforms to support trans/queer folks and also being extremely talented. If you already listen to them, I'd love to know your fav songs! 😈💜💙💚
I’m an enormous fan! Their album is one of my faves of 2023, and my favourite track is probably Emily, I’m Sorry. They’re so amazing 🥲
I only came across your channel yesterday but I just want to say I’m really enjoying your videos and recommendations.. the way you describe books is very clear and I immediately want to consume them all. Your love for them really shines through and even though you said you are not a teacher anymore , I feel that you would make a really good understanding one. The way you described your school life reminded me of my own experience of it too eventhough it’s now 20 years since I left, I try not to reminisce about it too much because it’s like you relive those moments again and what are now scars become wounds again, so it might take me awhile to get to the one about the bullying . ❤
I get this as well. My emotions are similar.
I love how you preview the next book up behind you on the book stand! That scene in Heaven also got me.
Heaven broke my heart too …
I cry very VERY easily. With songs, movies, videos, when I argue... But books have rarely made me cry. Demian by Hesse made me cry. And last week, the manga Solanin made me tear up a lot. I guess existentialism makes me cry.
I cried at end of Vaster Wilds also . Those last 3 pages wow
Saw the title of the video....hit "like" 1 second into the video 🤗
Bring on the tears ! I love me some sad books.
A decade after the Columbine school shooting, I read Dave Cullen's book, Columbine. An emotional interview with one of the teachers just made me break. It all just hit so close to home. I remember the horror of watching the events unfold, live on television, with the rest of the nation. Being in highschool at the time, it literally changed everything. Until that time, I'd never seen anything like it.
"Columbine" is one of the most impressive books I've read at just the sheer scale of sincere investigative journalism and his dedication to showing the world the truth behind the masacre. Me and my friends were all in the graduating class of 1999 and we had completed our coursework at the time the shooting happened and it was so confusing and scary to be on my way out of that universe but knowing all the people who would come later that would live with the uncertainty that Columbine brought about. Would have never guessed it would become ... almost common place.
I actually came across your channel because of ur heaven review and I’m so glad I did because it’s given me hours of entertainment on your channel . Also I’m glad you brought up the philosophical scene in heaven because something about that scene made me angry and sad at how I couldn’t really understand the logic yet I couldn’t argue against it.not many reviewers brought that scene up thank you.
What a touching video! Loved the story where you came full circle - and glad you became friends with "the bully." ❤ 😍 In my 50's I still hadn't read "Watership Down," but desperately wanted to. It just happened to be one of my girlfriend's favorite books, so she figuratively held my hand throughout the reading of it. Couldn't have done it without her and loved, loved, loved it! Tears do not come easily for me and this one pulled at my heartstrings.
I was really pleased to wake up to a new video, something to help my work shift go a little faster. :) I'm the kind of person who also feels a lot, but struggles to be emotionally vulnerable in front of other people, lol. However, one type of book above all others will almost always make me cry, and those are stories primarily featuring animals/pets. The first book to ever make me cry was a children's book called "I'll Always Love You" by Hans Wilhelm, which is a story about saying goodbye to a beloved pet. When I was very young I'd read that over and over again. I still can't read it without getting emotional! Thank you for this great video and all these fantastic recommendations. :D
Never Let Me Go is one of my favorite books, not least because it makes me cry.
I saw the movie first, which is lovely. But the writing in the book is so powerful, it wasn't spoiled.
I finished Little today. I read it based off this video and it was a wonderful read! And yes, I cried at the end.
I'm loving your beautifully arranged bookshelf behind you!
Call me by your name and The Kite Runner made me bawl like a baby
Yes! my goodness.
I almoust never cry while reading and one book that had me in tears was the little prince - reread it after more than 10 years and ugly cried through last few pages
Oh same 😢
It is a rare book that makes me cry. I'll never forget the first time I read 1984. I was on vacation with my family and I was reading it for a HS English class during the summer. I was so into it that I went to the bathroom at the hotel to finish reading it and the ennding devastated me to the point where I was sobbing in the bathroom, trying desparately not to awake any of my family members who I *knew* woludn't understand that 1, the book was worth staying up late into the night to read and 2, why I had been so moved.
I cried, reading heaven, and I hardly cry anymore. Glad you mentioned it. Aloha
Lincoln in the Bardo. I don’t think any book has ever been so funny and strange but also succinctly shown what it is to experience grief and accept loss. I lost my mother when I was a teen. I’m now in my 40s and reading that book allowed a cathartic cry I didn’t know was still in me. I can’t wait to read the only one of these I haven’t explored which is “little” . Lauren Groff has become an author whose book releases have become events to me and the Vaster Wild’s lived up to its expectations.
Lincoln in the Bardo is one of my all-time faves!
I've always been able to let a novel break my heart until tears flow. If the writers good at their art I'm involved. It was seeing the sensitivity and tenderness of the situation in the movie The Remains of The Day, that released the pain and tenderness we readers were witnessing.
Love this video! I don’t cry that often either - but I agree about Never Let Me Go. I also cried reading Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. And I read Gone With the Wind when I was 14 and cried for days! Love Pullman - I was privileged to meet him once.
Klara and the Sun made me cry.
Oh yay! I just got The Vaster Wilds!
The third book in the Shadow of the Fox series by Julie Kagawa made me cry when I was 29 or 30
Klara and the Sun is the most recent book I read and it was so powerful! I can definitely see why it would move you to tears.
As a fellow feeler, thanks for the recs and inevitable tears.
I resonated so much and felt so validated when you shared that you are a deep feeler but rarely cry.. I too feel things so deeply and have been told I’m very sensitive (not in the praising sense), but I’ve learned to accept and love those aspects of myself too. I think that’s why I’m so drawn to this channel and your reviews because of how much passion you have for your books, I can just feel what those books mean to you, and it quite actually manifests in me buying those books which I just purchased “Heaven” and “Never Let Me Go” from Blackwell’s because I love the title covers from the UK over the ones here in the US 😅 as always, thank you so much for your reviews and sharing the books that so deeply touch you!
im very emotionally dysregulated due to my adhd and if i didnt have medication for it i would literally cry every single day, i still cry a lot but i never understood crying at films or books etc until i was older, i always thought something was wrong with me but i think i was just too young at the time and somwtimes i wish i didnt cry that easily, because its exhausting ngl xD
thanks for sharing the books that made you feel the need to cry. loved this video
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Poetry makes me tear up with some regularity while a usual narrative rarely has. Poetry is just stuffed with music, meaning and the best words so it's kinda hard to help it. Stuff like Poe's "Alone", Borges "1964", Quevedo's "Amor constante, más alla de la muerte", Dickinson's "If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking", Woodsworth's "Tintern Abbey", Baudelaire's "Le Voyage", etc.
His Dark Materials!!! I was a full-grown woman of 40 when I read those. Bawled my eyes out by how the trilogy ended. So very good! 😭
Then I watched part of the adaptation they did years later for HBO (streaming service). I cried again, but for entirely different reasons. It was such an awful adaptation! 😂
As a teen, The Lottery Rose (as required reading) made me break down and seriously cry for hours. I'm sure several other books made me cry as well, but this one really stands out in my memory.
Books that made me cry:
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Oh god, yes, Crying in H Mart screwed up my mental health for weeks
I cry a lot. Like, A LOT. Sad tears, happy tears, angry tears... but all of them because of art, not life. Gosh, when I was first watching The Return of the King in 2003 in cinema I began crying at the first scene and just never stopped. Books? Yep, definitely. The last one that made me cry was As long as the lemon trees grow. Sobbed. A great story.
oof, I feel you on the hormones. While switching from one oral contraceptive to another I cried twice on the same trip to the grocery store- once out of happiness and once out of frustration.
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune had me crying almost constantly through the last 90 pages. It’s even worse when you realize he wrote it to help himself deal with the loss of his partner.
Only happened twice for me. Frankenstein and PKD’s A Scanner Darkly
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One of the things I'm reading at the moment is "Tomorrow factory" by Rich Larson, it's a selection of short sf stories and "All that robot shit" really got my eyes watering yesterday. Of course in the bus, because I always have to read things that make me cry in public transport, like Svietlana Alexievich.
"Shuggie Bain" by Douglas Stuart made me ugly cry.
Such good video ! 🤗 I never cried for fiction (so far) even though I have been deeply moved by “heaven” or “Demon Copperhead” or “the bluest eye”recently: these books stay with me for a long time after reading and I experienced sadness through them without a tear though, on a different level 🤔. They left a trace. But when it comes to non fiction, like “wild swans” (Jung Chang) or “killing fields”, I can’t stop crying.
Yet, the non fiction books I mentioned can happen in real life, they could be non fiction as well … i can’t explain… as for films, “king kong” (I was 10), or “edward scissorhands” left me inconsolable, I cried all along: the injustice, the cruelty against the person or creatures that are “different”, “too much” make me feel so so triste, vraiment , since I was little !! (Can’t watch these films again)
I remember bawling my eyes out at Edward Scissorhands as a kid as well
I'm trying to think of a book that made me cry and I can't, though I'm sure there must be one or two. I've been deeply moved by books but they don't seem to make me cry. A sad film on the other hand can very easily make me cry. It's weird how some forms of media can make us cry while others don't
I never cry at books, even ones I’m really invested in… I thought I was a robot but then I discovered I have aphantasia… so I think I just don’t connect fully with characters because I can’t make them real in my mind? Who knows. I did tear up at the Heartstopper books, particularly when Nick came out to his mam. I suppose it’s cheating when it’s a graphic novel coz I don’t have to do any of the imagining myself 😂
I really must get to His Dark Materials. They’ve been recommended to me by almost everyone 😂
The ishiguro book that Made me cry was “a pale view of hills”, it hit me so hard near the end
The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah made me cry twice.
I have to mention Betty by Tiffany McDaniel. It tore me apart and I cried multiple times while reading. It’s on track to be my favourite book of the year. If you do read it, check trigger warnings.
Claire Keegan’s Foster
The only books I can think of that have made me cry are The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Crossroads by Laurel Hightower, Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton, and recently I shed a few tears while reading Mona Awad's new book Rouge. Now I kind of feel like dnfing it just for that. 😅
Oh god, The Road 😭😭😭
Hollow Kingdom.....I cried too. It's a wonderful book.
I cried during Rouge too 😂
I cried at the end of the Beartown series, esp The Winners. ( Fredrik Backman).
The whole intro - sameeeeee, alll of it , same except I will cry at documentaries on climate change / environmental issues.
What are some songs that make you cry? Some songs almost immediately make me cry. First I can think of is Winter by Tori Amos.
The song that makes me sob instantly every time I hear it is Kick by Spanish Love Songs. It’s a story about cycles of addiction within a family and it has me bawling
@@WillowTalksBooks oh wow that song is brutal
I also cried at Little!
I didn’t cry at Little, but I feel like I know what makes people cry and it’s incredibly moving and heartbreaking. Such a good book.
u remember me of pam from the office, jenna fisher
Yeah, I get that every day. Makes me happy
1:38 I'm currently just halfway through Never Let Me Go and i'm curious to see if it'll have this effect on me 😂😂😂😂 kinda spoilers ahead until the half of the book:
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I've recently learned that the kids we follow are clones made to be organ donors once they grow up. With that in mind, I'm sure the tears come from these characters dying bc of all their donations or being upset when faced with their "possible" (the human in which they were cloned from). Well, those are my predictions at least 😅😅😅 i want to comment to see if i was right once i finish. Will i cry??? time will tell!!
There’s absolutely nothing to cry about in never let me go
Oh okay, my bad
Oh goddess, The Vaster Wilds was absolutely heart breaking, I am still recovering from it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a soothing story to help with the recovery? 😅
Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell. Very soothing. Like having tea with friends.
@@lvriend cool, thank you
So, Old Yeller didn't make you cry.
Sometimes it’s the case that people haven’t read the books you’re talking about.
@@WillowTalksBooks Old Yeller was formulaic a kid-lit book about a boy and his dog. Disney made a movie of it in the fifties. A facetious comment 'nuff said.
Ok
Never Let Me Go is a complete snorefest. Boring, boring, boring.
Oh right lol