Good ol’ Ange.
She tagged me with a meme entitled “5 Things You Don’t Know About Me” and here goes:
1. In six, seventh and eighth grade I was in an oratory contest and I won every year. Booyah! Public speaking and my need for attention seem to go hand in hand. Each year we students were given a lame topic to write a speech on (“Optimism, the Right Stuff!”, “I Can Make a Difference”, and “Listen to Me”) and with a little help from my subtley hilarious father I usually found a way to poke fun at the topics and endear the judges with my humour. The year I won the school finals, the district finals and went on to compete at the regional level (*nerd alert! nerd alert!*) I pretended to be a plants’ rights activist. Guess you had to be there.
2. I was proposed to in front of a theater full of people before the play let out for intermission.
3. My favourite flowers are blue hydrangeas.
4. I used to be an umpire. For a community rec league of little league softball.
5. I have never read a book that made me cry. But I’d like to. Any recommendations?
C’est fini!
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I cry reading books all the time. That is when I get a chance to read. Usually about 2 books per year, and in the summer only. The one book I read that really made me teary was My Sister’s keeper by Jodi Picoult. Check it out.
Read “Marley and Me”, the first and so far only book that made me cry
I loved all Francine Rivers’ books. Redeeming Love, The Atonement Child, and The Mark of the Lion Series all made me bawl!
I love the nerd alert. I think you and your dad should storm the prime minister one day. The two of you make good speeches, ones that people actually listen to! I don’t think I’ve ever cried reading a book either.
Wow, I have never thought of that before, but I don’t think there is a book out there that has made me cry, either. And I read. A lot. And a lot of them are of the heart string pulling kind. But I don’t think I’ve ever really cried. Movies, yes… but not books.
Jodi Picoult’s “My Sister’s Keeper” It made me bawl, seriously bawl, my husband came running (and I’m not one to cry, nor he to run).
The end of Anne of Green Gables. How can you not cry in that?
I didn’t cry when I read “My Sister’s Keeper”, it was too obvious that Jodi Picoult was trying to tell a story for the purpose of emotionally manipulating her readers – I didn’t like it at all actually.
Oh my goodness, Time Traveler’s Wife made me bawl.
Wait…I think I was pregnant when I read it. Does that count?
The Christmas Shoes. Can’t remember who it was by, but I bawled. And I wasn’t pregnant :)
I 2nd the nod to “Time Traveler’s Wife” it’s one of those books where you know the ending from the start, but my God! The tears – I don’t think any other book or movie has made me cry so hard!
The Hunchback of Notre Dame made me weep. I am not joking. But I’m also a crybaby.
Marley and Me also made me cry just the other night. I’m not talking a little sniffle and it was over. I cried for three whole chapters. Marc thought I was a little crazy! Even when it wasn’t sad I knew what was coming so I just kept crying. If you don’t cry when you read this book (and I think you like dogs since you have one) you have a heart of stone. :)
Pretty much every book written by Francine Rivers made me cry. She’s a wonderful author. She makes you feel like you’re actually a part of the peoples lives and feeling their pain right along with them.
I bawled where my nose was running and I had a hard time catching my breath to “Oceans Apart” and “A Time To Dance” by Karen Kingsbury. She is a christain author. I love her books.
Yup, I agree with Whoorl and ikate…I think I’ve mentioned my love of The Time Traveler’s Wife way too many times to count. It’s incredible. :)
The first book I read that made me cry was “Interview with a Vampire.” I was 13 and angsty.
p.s. You look like a model or a princess or something.
I knew 3, 4 and part of 1.
You’ll probably think my reading suggestion is juvenile, but the Harry Potter books really draw you in. The last one (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) made me cry.
Definitely Time Traveler’s Wife. And Marley & Me since you are a dog owner too.
Where the Red Fern Grows…makes me bawl every single time I read it, including a couple of years ago. I love that book.
Read “Marley and Me”…I was bawling my eyes out during the last chapter. Literally bawling.
You’ve got a dog, it will make you cry for sure!
I also say Marley and Me. I have a golden retriever with some of the same behavorial ‘quirks’ as Marley, and you’ve just gotta love them anyway! I was reading it thinking ‘this is funny!’ but knowing it would turn towards the end. It did. I cried my eyes out. My husband won’t go near it because he knows he can’t handle it! It’s still a great book though!
http://www.amazon.com/Where-Fern-Grows-Bantam-Starfire/dp/0553274295
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.
It’s a kids’ book, but it makes me cry anyway. I think I’ve read it 10 times, and I still cry big rolly-polly tears.
OMG – I hadn’t read the comments yet and I just glanced up. SOMEONE ELSE SAID THIS BOOK. No way.
See, now you have to read it.
I read “A Good House” by Bonnie Burnard yesterday. It was such a beautifully written book (by a Canadian author, too!). The tears wouldn’t stop trickling from my eyes as I neared the end of the book. It probably didn’t help that I was PMSing…but it is a VERY moving book nonetheless. It touched me in an incredible deep way about how I feel about my children and husband. Not to sound mushy…okay, to sound mushy.
You are holding out on us – you won more than the oratory competitions.
Auntie knows – so do tell!
Your hair looks great – did you get it cut again?
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