Twilight convert

Okay, okay. We gave in to the hype. SOOO many women have raved about the Twilight book series and I thought I'd give it a try some day when I had some time to read some fiction. But I had so many other nonfiction and church stuff to read that I just didn't have the time. Then the previews came out for the movie and I discovered it was about vampires. Hmmm, this might even interest Rex who totally loves that sort of thing. At the same time, we've both missed reading books together so he had started reading to me some books like Fablehaven and some other books while I did my chores. (This is very hard to do when kids are around. Much easier after they go to bed.) But when I asked him if he'd be interested in Twilight because there were vampires in it, at first he dismissed it as some Mormon-girl obsession. Turned out the reason Mormons were so obsessed with it is because the author is a Mormon, BYU-alumni. But both the vampire intrigue and the fact that if she's a Mormon writing it had to be clean finally won over the hype and Rex bought it with his scholastic teacher points. We'd read 2 pages and we were hooked.

I must say Stephanie Meyer is fantastic! When an author can reawaken my yearning to write, then he/she is a good writer. The story is great. But the style is wonderful! I liked books like Fablehaven and Harry Potter that have creative ideas and good plots, but I quite frankly cannot get very attached. They are two-dimensional. A good book I can't put down would be something like Jane Eyre or Witch of Blackbird Pond or Prodigal Summer/Poisonwood Bible -- something with a lot of inner reflection and not so much dialogue or events.

So I look forward to seeing the movie they made of Twilight, but not as much as I look forward to reading all the Twilight books. Now if only I could justify sitting down all day, day-after-day, to do what I like doing most: writing. (Of course, first I'd need to write more journal/family history stuff that I've neglected in favor of chores and projects.)

UPDATE:

Okay, we weren't even halfway through the book when I first posted this. Now, we are much further into the book, and while we still like it, there is TOO much about how beautiful Edward is. How many times does she have to use that word, or its synonyms? We get it already! I bet you could cut out 50 pages from this book by chopping the repetitious gawking. And she really didn't need to make Edward all sparkly in the sunlight -- especially with his shirt unbuttoned! I had to laugh, thinking this must be Mormon harlequin. I guess reading it with a guy brings out the cheesiness of it too, but it's me that points out that a guy would never do or say some of the romantic or thoughtful things Edward says (unless it's my husband).