Booking Through Thursday 9/24
September 24th, 2009 | 
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Today’s Booking Through Thursday topic is “What’s the saddest book you’ve read recently?”
A few months ago I read The Memory Keeper’s Daughter. It was different from most books I read. Normally I stick with light topics, but when this movie came out on Lifetime, I knew I wanted to read the book.
I didn’t like it as much as I thought I would, but it was definitely emotional. I cried a number of times during the book and then again when the same stuff happened in the movie.
After reading this book, I remembered why I didn’t read sad, serious books. Working in the news business, I see sad and serious from the time I get there until the time I leave. When I come home and relax and read, I want it to be light and fun.
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Tags: booking through thursday, Books, saddest books, the memory keeper's daughter
I can imagine why you enjoy reading lighter books with a job in the news industry. Would you say that you enjoyed the movie more than the book? Would you recommend the movie?
Meg
I did like the movie much better than the book. I’m not sure if it was because there was so much hype for the movie and the book didn’t live up to expectations or if it was just easier for me to know the characters when I saw them. I normally see them in my head when I read, but I already had in mind what they would look like from movie previews! And I would recommend it. But make sure you have a box of tissues
I’ll have to check this one out. 23 days? Wow! Is it hitting you yet? Here is mine
There were parts of this book that were so incredibly heartbreaking. It’s probably good that I didn’t hear about the movie until after I had read the book, because I definitely enjoyed to book more. But I did still need some tissues to get through the movie!
Here’s my BTT.
The book is not what I expected. (I picked up this book at Costco and thought it’s a bit more chick-lit ish). I turned out to be a really sad story of an unwanted daughter. The story stayed with me for a long time afterwards.
I needed a few tissues reading this one too.
My BTT
Oh man, I couldn’t read this let alone see the movie. I hate hate hate sad things and my mom cried throughout the entire book!