Loves books, loves to read

I love books. I love to read. In fact, my graduate thesis is a memoir about books and reading. And all of this bibliophilia is feeding into my TTC experience, because I expect, of course, my life to line up like the plot of a novel. Not a postmodern piece of writing, with no plot (not in this case, anyway) and all misery. No, I want an old-fashioned beginning, middle, and end. I've been stuck in the middle forever - banging on a closed and locked door - and I'm waiting for a happy ending. Can it puh-leeeeeze be in 2008? A positive test would be a wonderful way to wrap up a crappy year. A storybook ending.