There were many tweets from fans, including the Chadron State College professor Elisabeth Ellington, who proclaimed it "My #1 Top crying book".
Heather Christle is the author of, most recently, the poetry collection "Heliopause". Her first work of nonfiction, "The Crying Book," will be out in November.
He reaches extremes of emotion in seconds, screaming, crying, hurling books or balls across the room.
On Amazon.com, the reader reviews of his books sound like a cross between love letters and revival-meeting testimonials: "This is the one that speaks to me to the point where each time I read certain pages, I cry"; "This book is one of the most influential books of poetry in my life"; or, most revealing of all, "I hate poetry, but I love Buk's poems".
And now, after living a lifetime of ups and downs in her 30 years, she is sharing it all in her book, "in the water they can't see you cry". The book, published by Simon & Schuster and co-written with Rebecca Paley, is available in bookstores now.
After a quick mention of another bizarre accident as reported in an Australian newspaper, Meredith Viera, in one of her refreshing loose-cannon moments, jokingly cried out "Book 'em!" The rest of the morning team and crew burst into laughter, knowingly.
I would rather read a book with all of those things in it: a laughing, crying, educating, distracting book.
I'd definitely recommend this novel to anyone who likes hopeful romantic books (or anyone who'd like to end up crying when the book finishes...pfft… that totally wasn't me).
Authors and publishers seem to have tapped into the fact that teenagers like to cry at books even more than they like to laugh at books.
Critics pounced, crying that the book was thinly sourced.
"By the end of it I was internally shouting, screaming and crying … This book was beautifully and masterfully written and I cannot wait for the sequel".
