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So many books! This is my book haul from the Friday before last – the four from Oxford University Press were given out at their Storm Your Imagination event, and the others were gifts from other bloggers except for The Worst Girlfriend in the World, which came in the post, courtesy of Atom Book.

I have been adding some new blogs to Feedly! Hopefully this will lead to more diversity in my Monday Amusements.

Jo at Once Upon a Bookcase is Desperately Seeking Romance (novels), go comment with your recommendations!

I pretty much agreed with everything Raimy at Readaraptor wrote about the book age certificate debate in Certificates for YA books? Seriously?. This debate seems to rear its silly head every couple of years and thankfully never goes anywhere.

This is Not Why YA is Important – Maggie Stiefvater hits the nail on the head.

I have an enormous collection of writing guidebooks, so I really liked L.K. Hill’s mini-reviews of the how-to guides she’s been reading recently.

A Daydreamer’s Thoughts is hosting a Noughts & Crosses Read-A-Long! I am tempted but I read the first book fairly recently…

My favourite reviews this fortnight:
Grasshopper Jungle, by Andrew Smith, at weartheoldcoat
A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki, at Outlandish Lit
Scarlet, by A.C. Gaughen, at Rather Be Reading
Being Sloane Jacobs, by Lauren Morrill, at Geeky Chiquitas

Is there anything you think this post should have included? Let me know in the comments!

This is my thirtieth Top Ten Tuesday post! I don’t cry at books all that often, so I admit that I struggled a little bit with this topic!

Some of these books are quite sad, as you might expect, but I do cry at happy endings sometimes as well.

Top Ten Tuesday was created and is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

Top Ten Books That Will Make You Cry

1. If I Stay, by Gayle Forman – I don’t know how anyone could get through this book without crying at least once. Teddy 🙁

2. A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett – I’m not sure if I cried the first time I read this but I definitely cried at the film!

3. Pushing the Limits, by Katie McGarry – the characterisation is amazing, and I couldn’t help but cry just a little bit at the end.

4. Life on the Refridgerator Door, by Alice Kuipers – this is a short and very sad book about the relationship between a girl called Claire and her mother, who is diagnosed with breast cancer.

5. Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi – I think I cried twice – once at a particularly sad part in the middle of the book, and again at the end.

6. The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler – this is a bit of an emotional rollercoaster!

7. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak – the ending was devastating, even though I knew it was coming, .

8. Green Fingers, by Paul May – this is a children’s book that really took me by surprise. I loved it.

9. Double Act, by Jacqueline Wilson – I will forever remember sitting on my parents’ old sofa and crying when formerly-inseparable twins Ruby and Garnet have their first major falling-out.

10. Noughts & Crosses, by Malorie Blackman – I didn’t just cry. I also struggled to sleep afterwards. I was so shaken by the ending. It’s horrible and unforgettable.

How often do you cry while reading fiction? I think I cry more at films and television shows, seeing the tragedy acted out (or CGI’d out…oh, Dobby) in front of me seems to have more of an immediate impact.

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