Crying in November

Boo hoo, the National Year of Reading is nearly over. There’s no need to cry over this though … This year is the beginning of a big adventure with life long reading!

Back to November though, and crying...  Books make us cry for lots of different reasons. It's not always the fault of the onions you are chopping up as you prepare that great new recipe you have just read (try wearing goggles next time, it’s guaranteed to make the rest of your family cry with laughter!).

If you want to be miserable tough,  well, there’s nothing like a good cry, you always feel better afterwards…

So, tissues at the ready, here’s a list of books that made us cry:

Believe: a horseman’s journey by Buck Brannaman

Call the midwife: a true story of the East End in the 1950s by Jennifer Worth

The colour purple by Alice Walker

Finding Jack by Garth Crocker

The horse whisperer by Nicholas Evans

Jessica by Bryce Courtenay

Light between oceans by M L Stedman

Me before you by Jojo Moyes

The mother’s group by Fiona Higgins

My sister’s keeper by Jodi Picoult

PS I love you by Cecelia Ahern
 

Sowing the seeds of love by Tara Heavey

The time traveller’s wife by Audrey Niffeneger

A woman of substance: the life and works of Barbara Taylor Bradford
 

So, tissues at the ready let’s cry our way through November...sob...

 

Exploring October

       

·       Explore the past, and read about ancient, modern or own your family history  -who knows what skeletons you may find rattling around in the closet!
·       Explore the present. The here and now, fact and fiction. You might like to explore a genre you haven’t read before. If you usually read romance, try reading adventure, or about pirates! Why not read more about Australian explorers.
·       Explore the endless possibilities of the future. Now’s the time to read some science fiction, with its fantastic yet possible and plausible worlds and futures.
·       Explore new technologies to find new ways to read. Download a book and read it on an ereader, follow your favourite authors on twitter, find some facts in databases, or in an e-textbook on your tablet. Use your smartphone to read about the latest breaking news as it happens.
·       Explore new countries and cultures by reading a travel guide, or try learning a new language-oui?
·        Explore what’s out there, whether it’s the outback of Australia or outer space.
·       Explore everything and anything. If it’s out there, you can read about it.
At you library too...