Wanted: Denouement

This literary device is desperate and on the run. Last seen in classics such as To Kill a Mockingbird, this character has been a fugitive from more recent literature, not to mention the cinema. Its absense was notable in the novel The Nanny Diaries, in which the end unsatisfactorially left the protagonist, and tha narrative, hanging with a recent apartment eviction, job loss, and romantic relationship barely resolved. This stressful and abrupt scenario must not be allowed to continue. Do your part to combat feelings of literary unresolve by communicating any knowledge of denouement's whereabouts to the authorities (probably best to try Thursday Next and her fellow Literary Detectives at SpecOps Division 27; or perhaps Jurisfiction).

Sigh. I HATE non-endings. What's the point of a book if it stops just when it gets interesting?

Speaking of books, and of Thursday Next's creator Jasper Fforde, I finally got to Borders yesterday and purchased Fforde's The Big Over Easy and Batman: Year One (in hardback, no less--woohoo!). I debated about buying Eldest, the sequel to Eragon, because it's 30% off in hardback right now, but declined because I haven't read, or even bought, Eragon yet. However, once Alex and I got to Sam's (to purchase our all-important dietary staple, tortilla chips), we found Eldest there for only $12--50% off! Woohoo! So, I still need the first book... Not that I know for sure that I'll like the series, but: they each have a big colorful dragon pictured on the front. Need I say more?

Although I've got to say, any "About the Author" blurb that begins by telling how the author began writing the book when he graduated high school at fifteen, and was a best-selling author by nineteen, has to make you feel a little inadequate. Or maybe that's just my guilty conscience grumbling about the three abandoned novels and the one dusty work in progress sobbing in neglect deep in my computer. Sigh...

If you're looking for a good excuse to avoid doing any actual work online, then this GE site seems like a good bet. I've only puttered around on it for a few minutes, having been alterted to its presence by a webcomic artist's blog, but it seems that you draw with the funky tools, then email the results to friends. It also looks like you can create stuff online with online friends--now that's a neat idea!