Since Of Mice and Men is usually read in English classes around the country, it may be one of the first sad books that teens ...

Full of moments both tragic and beautiful, Sheff’s book is best consumed with a box of tissues nearby. (For what it’s worth, Nic’s companion book, Tweak , is also worth a read.) $11 at amazon ...

THE ROMANCE OF TRISTAN AND ISEULT—Joseph Bédier—Pantheon Books ($3.50). For more than a thousand years the legend of Tristan and Iseult has been one of the world's best-loved love ...

The young women romanticizing the protagonists of books like Girl, Interrupted and My Year of Rest And Relaxation are missing something crucial.View Entire Post › ...

It's easy for a book to produce a tear or two from me, but I can only recall a couple that led to full-on heaving and ugly-crying: Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones" (duh) and current bestseller ...

SAD and depressing pictures of poverty in England are drawn for us in M. Loane's book, "An Englishman's Castle," (Longmans, Green Co. $2.) They are pictures of the home life of the underpaid and ...

The books in Peter Brown’s “Wild Robot” trilogy were the first to wallop my son with the mix of tragedy and joy that define great art and also real life. “It made me sad that Roz had to ...