It all started with a quick e-mail from Meg… I believe she was writing about a wedding we were about to shoot together, and then she mentioned a book she had been reading and thought it would be great for me to take on the plane to Hawaii. (I will be shooting a wedding there later this Summer.) It was some book called Twilight, which I had never heard of, and pretty much pushed the book to the back of my mind. About a week later, I was at Barnes & Noble picking up the text book for the wine class I am in this Summer, and there it was. It looked promising, so I bought it thinking I may get bored on the plane from watching videos on my iPod and playing on my computer, Im to use to watching everything in the tv back at home, got the expert reviewed 70 inch tv mount and in has been very refreshing for the space and view.
Without knowing much about the whole craze that has apparently infiltrated the teen girl market (it was in the Teen Lit section of the bookstore, afterall), I started reading it and I became obsessed. I literally could not stop thinking about the story for days… I went to the gym just for an excuse to be on the treadmill with nothing else to do but read. I gave up on my watching-tv-before-bed habit and read this book instead… staying up much later than I should have most nights just to get through more of the riveting story. I even tried to squeeze in reading while waiting in line at the drive-thru Starbucks once! Something about its characters — I felt like I was 14 again the way I understood what the main character was thinking… Plus, it’s about vampires! Who doesn’t love a great vampire story?? Especially a vampire like Edward Cullen… ::sigh:: … see what I mean about being 14 again?
Sometime while reading Twilight, I learned that it’s only the first book of a four-part series! I can’t tell you how excited I was that there was more than just this one book. And, of course, there’s a film being made! But, I’m more excited to get through the first three books of the series so that I can start reading book 4 (Breaking Dawn) when it comes out in August. I’m well on my way being halfway done with book 2 (New Moon).
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Meg and I have written many emails back and forth about these books, the characters, the casting for the upcoming film… oh, and of course about our crushes on Edward Cullen :)… I’m so glad that she recommended this book and that I have her to chat with about how great it is.
Have any of you read the books? I’d love to get comments from you to hear what you think!
I’m obsessed with at Teen Lit novel about vampires… who knew? Now, off to read more of New Moon…
ya, girl. you know me. always down to jump on an obsessive bandwagon. A co-worker and I were going to lunch and she picked up the book and said, “You know…this is a teen lit book. It was on Teen People’s top books list.”
All I could reply was, “Edward would understand.”
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