"Read With A Box of Tissues" Display
November 5, 2023 Reading Room Library Staff
Sometimes you read a book that wrecks you emotionally and it's all you can talk about for weeks. I finished Audrey Niffenegger's "The Time Traveler's Wife" on a commuter rail train and cried throughout the entire ride. Who hasn't read "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold and sobbed? And let's face it--sometimes you just need a good cry. That's the intention behind our latest display, "Read With a Box of Tissues." These are books you'll want to read with those tissues close by. Some of them, like "The Time Traveler's Wife" and JoJo Moyes's "Me Before You" feature an overall theme that is heartbreaking. Some have unexpected moments of laughter, like Trish Doller's "Off the Map: A Novel." Many of them have movie or television adaptations that you could watch after reading: "The Green Mile" by Stephen King, "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck, and "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker. Grab one of these titles, a favorite beverage, a box of tissues, and settle in for an emotional afternoon of reading. Let the feelings catharsis begin!
You can find these titles and many more in our display area. Lists of featured titles are also linked below.
