Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Wednesday, and it’s time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you’d like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2024 here. If you’d like to read others’ responses to this week’s topic, you can find them here.

Books That Should Have Ended A Different Way

This one took some pondering because whenever I’ve read a book, I either liked it or didn’t, and that’s it. I’ve never thought, “Well, this ended dreadfully; this is how it should have ended.”

As I said, I thought long and hard about this, and one book that kept popping into my head was Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The book is a classic, there’s no doubt about it; it’s full of adventure, great characters, and fun. Yet the ending is that it was all a dream. All a dream? After all that? Perhaps it could have ended with her finding her way back to the real world and finding no time had passed. That way, her adventure could have happened and been meaningful.

Another book I wish had ended differently, and for different reasons than the above, is Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl. It’s an important book, giving us a glimpse of Anne and her family’s life as they hid away from the Nazis. I wish she had been able to complete her diary. Unfortunately, it ends when she and her family are captured and sent to a concentration camp, where Anne sadly died not very long before the liberation of the camp.

Anyway, I am very interested to read your answers this week.

Thank you, as ever, for spending some time with me today. It really means the world.

Until next time,

George

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