Freewheeling Andy Posted July 12, 2008 Posted July 12, 2008 There are many books I've mourned finishing, of course, but just thinking back it's odd that a couple of the ones that immediately spring to mind are genre books - Lonesome Dove, as I mentioned on a different thread; and A Canticle For Leibowitz. Mostly, though, I think the books I mourn finishing, I mourn as for the time and place I was reading them, where everything was just clicking together (sitting on a warm train trundling across central Europe, or staying at a girlfriend's house, or lying in bed in the warmth at the end of a good day). It's sometimes hard to detach the enjoying the book and enjoying the time and place I'm reading. Quote
eschulenburg Posted July 12, 2008 Posted July 12, 2008 I just finished "The White Mary" a couple of days ago, and was really sad to put it down. I find that when a book really affects me in some way, I have such a hard time picking up a new one - I put it off and find something else to do (like reading on BCF!) Quote
Amanda Posted July 12, 2008 Author Posted July 12, 2008 I find that when a book really affects me in some way, I have such a hard time picking up a new one - I put it off and find something else to do (like reading on BCF!) I think I am going through that now. I have decided that I am not ready to reread that book that I finished, but I am having a hard time moving on, at least moving on to any serious reading... Here I can Emily Loring and Dean Koontz. Quote
kizer1976 Posted July 12, 2008 Posted July 12, 2008 Hi all, i have just finished reading Little Fingers by Tim Hewston Le Roux, fantastic book which kept me up nights, but i never wait too long until i pick up a new one. Any high recomedations? im into pretty much everything. At the moment Im reading Daniel Birch's ' Clipped ', which is very different but guys, it is so so funny. Its had me cracking up on the bus in the morning, people are looking at me strangly while i cackle but i cant help it!! see ya! Quote
OmicronTheta Posted July 15, 2008 Posted July 15, 2008 I don't often mourn books in that sense of the word but when I had finished Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis I cried like a maniac simple because there was nothing more left to read in it. That book really moved me. Quote
flowersarah Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 The whole Shopaholics series by Sophie Kinsella. I loved them. Laughed and cried. Wish there was another addition to the series. Quote
princessponti Posted July 20, 2008 Posted July 20, 2008 I also get this feeling a lot - at the moment, I'm putting off reading the last volume of the Northern Lights trilogy as I'm enjoying it so much. I know that as soon as I start reading it I'll be finished in a week I love the whole universe that Pullman has created, it's amazing! Quote
Peacefield Posted July 21, 2008 Posted July 21, 2008 I loved, LOVED The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier. I learned so much about tapestry making and I had a really hard time putting it down after finishing it. I wanted to start it again immediately, lol. Each chapter is written from a different character's point of view, and I don't know, I just found it fascinating. She went in to so much detail about what the artists use to dye the wool, how they work with it on the loom, and even how hard it was to translate a drawing on paper into some huge tapestry design. -Marcia Quote
Michelle Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 Definitely The Questory of Root Karbunkulus (review here).. I loved the world that the author created. Quote
princessponti Posted July 25, 2008 Posted July 25, 2008 Definitely The Questory of Root Karbunkulus (review here).. I loved the world that the author created. I saw that book created a lot of discussion over there - I may have to look into that one! - sounds interesting Quote
Michelle Posted July 25, 2008 Posted July 25, 2008 You could enter the competition.. it's not easy to get hold of over here at the moment. Quote
frankie Posted December 12, 2015 Posted December 12, 2015 What's the last book you mourned finishing? Or in general, what have been the books you hoped would have continued, and continued, on and on? I can't think of a latest title I would've mourned finishing. Nothing comes to mind at the moment. But as a reader I've experienced this phenomenon all too often. I think it's one of the downfalls of reading books: they come to an end sooner or later! Quote
Anna Begins Posted December 13, 2015 Posted December 13, 2015 Gone With the Wind *sigh* I just finished it for the fourth time last month. In 4 days. Quote
mirandashell Posted December 13, 2015 Posted December 13, 2015 The Shepherd's Crown. Not because it was a great book but because it was the last Discworld book. Pratchett has been such a major part of my life that reading the last one felt like an unavoidable goodbye. My eyes still fill when I think about it. And the last page of the book is still crinkly from my tears. Quote
chaliepud Posted December 13, 2015 Posted December 13, 2015 We Never Asked For Wings by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, she isn't a prolific writer so her books are few and far between so I have to savour them when I read. Quote
shirley Posted December 14, 2015 Posted December 14, 2015 I finsiehd them a while ago but miss reading the All Souls Trilogy, which were A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and the Book of Life. I know I will have to read them all again and I will look forward to it. Quote
chesilbeach Posted December 17, 2015 Posted December 17, 2015 The last one was probably The Crimson Petal and the White which I ended up rationing out chapters so that I didn't rush it and finish too soon! Quote
Anna Begins Posted December 17, 2015 Posted December 17, 2015 The last one was probably The Crimson Petal and the White which I ended up rationing out chapters so that I didn't rush it and finish too soon! I was just talking about this book in Tim's thread! I must get to it next year. It's so massive, so good to hear ^^ Quote
frankie Posted December 30, 2015 Posted December 30, 2015 Oh, I've now thought of titles. The last two Harry Potter books! And The Shadow of the Wind. That book had me in tears! Quote
Madeleine Posted January 1, 2016 Posted January 1, 2016 Probably North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, ooh John Thornton, swoon! Quote
timebug Posted January 2, 2016 Posted January 2, 2016 Divisive among many readers,but I first read 'The Lord Of The Rings' over forty years ago; I still feel somehow cheated and hollow, when I re-read it (an annual event) and have to leave my friends in the Shire behind once more! Quote
bookbug3 Posted January 4, 2016 Posted January 4, 2016 Rebel Spring by Morgan Rhodes. After I finished it, I was so impatient to purchase the next book since the one I had finished basically ended on a cliffhanger. I was dying to find out what happened! Quote
emelee Posted January 8, 2016 Posted January 8, 2016 (edited) Bo Balderson's books about "The Cabinet Minister" (the main character is never referred to by his name, just his title). There are only 11 in the series, and I've read 6 of them. I grieve every time I finish another, cause I am closing in on the end. They are just too good!!!! Edited January 8, 2016 by emelee Quote
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