Read it or Weep

To Read or Not to Read… July 25, 2008

Thank you to my colleagues who have shared their book titles they are reading.  We all have different preferences when it comes to books. I tend to read books with “happy endings,” but I also like to be introduced to other types of books. Although I do read all genres of books from science fiction to fantasy to thrillers to romance to historical fiction as long as they have a “happy” ending or at least a “satisfying” ending, I’m ecstatic and content.  I don’t want everyone killed. I want GOOD to triumph over evil and I want people to live happily ever after. I will confess that I even  read the ending first before I start a book. I would have never read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows if Harry Potter had died at the end.  I was very interested in Ann’s review of Dewey: A Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World. It sounds like a wonderful book and one that I can recommend to others but it is one that I will never read because I never, never, ever, read ANIMAL books. I cry. Ever since I sobbed my way through Charlotte’s Web, I haven’t touched another book with an animal on a cover. There are too many other books out in the wonderful world of Bookland to read, so I will let others read those ANIMAL books and I will stick to my “happy” endings. Hey, it doesn’t matter what you read but that you READ so Happy Reading!                                                                                      ~Donna

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
Orson Welles