Question about the ending of a book….

Jason Steger is a British-born Australian journalist and one of Australia’s best-known literary critics. He served as the books editor and literary editor of The Age in Melbourne for 25 years, becoming a respected voice on Australian and international literature through his book reviews, author interviews and commentary. Steger was also a regular panellist on the The Book Club on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, where he discussed classic and contemporary books with fellow critics and writers. Widely regarded for his thoughtful, accessible criticism, he has played a significant role in promoting Australian literature and reading culture.

I receive a weekly newsletter from him every Friday called Booklist. He reviews new Australian books, talks about current literary festivals and asks readers questions about books. I enjoy reading his bookish discussions.

A couple of weeks ago he was asking readers what type of book ending do they like/dislike. Some endings wrap everything up. Some are ambiguous. Some just leave the ending completely open. A few books have several endings.

I’d be interested to know what are your favourite type of ending. I must say I enjoy closure. All things wrapped up. However having said that I find if an ending is ambiguous or not clear I tend to think about the story for a longer time.

What do you prefer?

Peanny loves watching animals on tv.

Having a quiet day today. Hobart has been very cold this past week. One of those days you just can’t shake the chill. I think I need to get to the pet store and get little moss Peanny a jumper. She keeps crawling under blankets as does our cat Pickles. But I think Pickles would hate wearing one.

(By the way for you North Americans- a jumper is a sweater here.)

I had some journal pages to catch up on so am doing that today. Updated the reading journal somewhat. Need to look up some publishing dates to fill in some blanks.

I enjoyed making up a page in my junk journal using a paper menu from the Cascade Brewery menu with some magazine pics and a few doll stickers. Lastly I saw a sketching exercise on Tik Tok of drawing heads and decorating them so I did that and found it quite relaxing.

In the end I did go ahead and finish the book Theo of Golden by Allen Levi. Overall I enjoyed it but I had to dip into it a half hour or so a day instead of reading it right through. It is somewhat repetitive and really so sentimental but I liked Theo very much. And I enjoyed the setting of Golden, Georgia.

I have several book launches coming up at Fullers book shop but will talk about them later.

Mr P is visiting family in Canada for a month so things have slowed right down here.

I did a 6+km walk the other day with a friend as we had sun if not warmth. It was bracing and we stopped at a local cafe on the way home for a hot Chai Latte.

Last night I spent an evening out at the cinema with a friend and her son. We saw The Sheep Detectives with Hugh Jackman. It was silly but I can’t go past a flock of sheep who all talk and have different personalities. The sheep do solve the murder. They are very clever. We followed that with a Vietnamese meal. A very enjoyable time. I haven’t been to the cinema in a long time.

Well that’s my week finished. Just to finalise it all I received Cousin Eddie’s ashes. (He was our old cat we said goodbye to last week.). The vet also sent some little papers with his foot prints, a vial with a hair clipping and a lovely card. I will put his ashes under our Japanese maple tree come summer and hang his bell. All of our past pets are there and they each have their own little bell. It sounds lovely when the wind comes through.