Hi! Thanks for stopping by – it’s nice to hear that there are other people in the world who don’t want to marry Twilight tomorrow. 😛

If you’re going to read something by her, let it be Eat Pray Love. It’s very well-written, and I am always interested in hearing about other people’s experiences of God. Plus, she goes and lives in Indonesia with a medicine man! How good’s that? 🙂

Oo, yeah, I love series books, when I can find a really good series! There is something so cool about serialization of a story. I’m addicted to TV shows too!

I’m looking forward to her next book too, though I’m wondering whether I’ll like it as much. I fret so much over family-type memoirs, and whether anyone’s feelings were hurt over what the authors put into the book!

The tidy-tidy endings don’t bother me as much in kids’ books than in adults’ books. I don’t know why! I don’t think I’m the kind of person who thinks children should be protected from the knowledge that life isn’t perfect and tidy. But still I am much more forgiving of a kids’ book that ends all sunshine and roses.

(Wouldn’t it be nice if life had more happy endings?)

I feel like I should make a compendium of endings. Take all my favorite books and make lists of the kind of endings they have, and then I would make a definitive judgment about what kind of ending is best under what circumstances. Because I like ambiguity, but not too much; like with Sunshine, I would have liked to know a bit more by the end about what differentiates Con from Bo, etc.

And yeah, the Jodi Picoult make-stuff-up ending, I do not like.

It makes excellent sense! I love a book that explores really major issues without being preachy or trying to answer everything – like The Color Purple. I read once that the thing a character wants on the first page of a novel, s/he should definitively have (or not have if you want to be tragic) on the last page. Which seems a bit limiting.