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[quote=Anonymous]So many from this thread.  When I ws in middle school, so very early 80s, there was a special made for TV event of A Tale oF Two Cities, and we got special flyers at school about it.  My parents let  me stay up and watch it, and to this day I think of that ending - It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known......  And coupled with the opening lines - It was the best of times....  I seriously think that might be the best pairing of first and last line in all of literature.

I read Homegoing last summer and found it deeply sad.

Anita Brookner writes sad little novels that I think aren't supposed to be sad, but I find myself just sad and feeling a little lost for days after reading.  There's just something lonely and, well sad, about her characters.

I read Bel Canto over a long vacation, and while it was a great vacation, it was very tiring (lots of outdoor active stuff) and I finished the book on a cold rainy day near the end of the trip when everyone else had gone out hiking and I stayed in bed to just have a rest day and was destroyed by the ending, even though the author told us it was coming.

But the book I sobbed over was Mama Day.  Just sobbed![/quote]

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