I certainly felt it multiple times through the Harry Potter series. Most of the books I read, I wouldn’t consider “emotional trauma” but “emotionally overwhelming,” well… there are too many books to list them all.
Have you every felt this? Which books made you feel this way?
-Eliabeth
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Ermilia 
I know how it feels…
I know the feeling well! There have been plenty of times where I was left clutching a book to my chest and smiling! Overwhelmed by its brilliance, sad that it’s over, and upset that I wasn’t a character in the plot!
That’s how I felt about Ella Enchanted and Monstrous Regiment!
I just read Monstrous Regiment and loved it! Very glad I did read it, it was so funny. I especially loved the ending 🙂
When Heaven Weeps by Ted Dekker and also The Lost Books Series by Ted Dekker. Emotional overwhelming-ness perfectly describes how I felt after reading those. lol
😀 Haven’t read either, now I may need to! Thanks
Let me know if you do!
The most recent one was Water For Elephants by Sarah Gruen, which I wanted to read before seeing the movie. When I raised my head and realized I didn’t really smell sawdust, popcorn, and cotton candy, all with an undertone of livestock, I just wasn’t ready to come back. I then had to recommend to anyone who would listen. What a good book! They’d better not have messed it up in the movie.
That’s another one I want to read before the movie. I actually read The Hunger Games after seeing the trailer for the movie.
I know the feeling. I know the feeling well. I have experienced it with a great many books. Most recently, The Hunger Games trilogy. Don’t laugh–there is much more going on with those books than one might realize. By the time I was finished with the third book, I felt wrung out.
Not laughing at all, the first one brought me to tears! The second is on my list, I just wish I could read faster and have more hours in a day.
I most recently read To Kill a Mockingbird and actually cried because there were no more pages. Fortunately, enough people have read it that I didn’t sound like a blithering idiot raving about it afterward. I feel like I lived part of my life in Maycomb.
Hahaha I haven’t read it since it was required reading. I think I cried, but I honestly can’t remember.
I can relate! Almost all the Harry potter books made me feel this way, especially the last book when Snape dies and everything was about to come to an end. It was as if my childhood ended there too.
Definitely with you there, His love for Lily was one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve read in a while.
Yup, Snape’s death was a harsh blow to us all 😦
The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Sword of Truth, pretty much any good book I’ve ever read. If it’s a good book, it leaves me feeling like that 🙂
“If it’s a good book, it leaves me feeling like that.” So true!
I think all of bookworms know how that feels… I got it with The Namesake, Return to Sodom and Gomorrah, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, Harry Potter, and pretty much anything by Poe….
Okay, with a title like “A Case of Exploding Mangoes” that book is now on my Goodreads to read list. Thanks for stopping by!
That book is fantastic! Kind of a black comedy, but absolutely gripping.
I think there are countless such books!! But if I had to tell you the recent ones that really affected me that way, it should be 1984 by George Orwell, the Memory keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards and Anthem by Ayn Rand!
1984 was an amazing book, I don’t remember crying though. It was one of the few books I was required to read that I actually enjoyed.
No, I didn’t cry either. But it is one of those books that leave you numb!
Definitely know that feeling!! The world has changed a bit but I certainly have!
Almost with every book, at the end I have all these emotions and just need to talk about the marvelous story I just read …