What book have you had to recover from?

[Cait]

When faintingviolet finished This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, she passed it on to Ale and insisted she read it immediately. Ale says, "I finished the book two days ago and am still sitting in some kind of stunned, beautiful heartbreak."

[Raven]

I've had several books but Speak by Anderson (novel and graphic novel) and RASL by Smith (the trilogy, but book one smacked me upside the head) are two that stuck with me long after I was done. I also had to recuperate after Baby Teeth by Stage and Rabbits by Miles as neither was not my usual reading and it took a bit out of me to get through.

[NTE]

The Book Thief. I purposely saved it for a day I was already sad, but I think I wept for a week straight, and was unable to read anything else for almost two (that's unheard of for me). It's on my niece's suggested reading list this year in ELA (10th grade), and I both want her to read it & love it & be moved by it as I was, and to hide it from her, and protect her from the overwhelming grief she'll find within.

[Ashley]

The latest one for me was Gideon the Ninth. I think I literally went into mourning when it was over. I still haven't been able to pick up the second book and it's been since February.