Monday, June 16, 2008

Twilight

After hearing how awesome Twilight was from almost everyone I talked to, including ladies in my ward, I had to read it. Hill bought it and read it fast and then let me read it next. She brought it over on her lunch break on Wednesday, June 11 and I started reading at about 1:30. I finished it on Thursday, June 12 at 10:30 p.m. I get kinda addicted to books I read and tend to forget that I have a life other than that. :)
But besides the fact that I already liked vampires and love stories, I could actually kinda relate to this story. When I was a junior in high school, I moved from a big high school in the Phoenix area to a small town high school where people had already heard of me and knew my family. At my new school everything they were teaching was review of what I had already learned at my old school. I don't like snow. I'm not athletic, I'm not outgoing, I drove an old truck for my first vehicle. :) Too bad there weren't any vampires at my school.
I couldn't wait for my sister to finish New Moon, so I bought it the next Monday and finished it on Wednesday. I bought Eclipse too, but I decided to pace myself since Breaking Dawn isn't coming out until August.
Now I am reading Gone with the Wind again. I have always liked it a lot but it is not a page-turner like Twilight.

I can't wait to see the movie in December. And I found some other interesting info on the http://stepheniemeyer.com website...

How she thought of the story:
http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/twilight.html

Pictures of a forest near Forks:
http://www.terragalleria.com/parks/np.olympic.3.html

The Forks website:
(I had been wondering if Forks was real and what it really looked like)
http://www.forks-web.com/index.html

Info on the movie:
http://www.twilightthemovie.com/
http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/twilight_movie.html

Clip from the movie:
http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?vid=237340


2 comments:

Unknown said...

I am glad to see you are so addicted! I never realized how much you and Bella were alike and now that you bring it up-- there are a lot of similar qualities!!

Anonymous said...

Connie told me it was good too. I have heard lots of recommendations on it but haven't read it personally.

Good for you. I don't even know how long it's been since I sat and read a good book :-)

We need to get together. Did Halle have a good birthday? Happy Birthday girlie!