Ridiculous Addictions: Twilight

Cast photo from Twilight the movie

I am not a 14 year old girl. But if you looked at my nightstand reading, you would assume I was. Several friends had read Stephenie Myers' Twilight - some liked it, some loathed it and some loved it. I was curious about all the hype, so my good friend Darrah was happy to send me her copy. Let's just say I flew through the book. In three nights of reading, I killed it off. I actually slept in late on Sunday so I wouldn't have to wait too long to go see the first showing at the theatre that day. I was the only person in the theatre (which happened to be without heat) and watched with utter awe the movie based on the book. I have no idea how this happened. Trust me, my eyes are kind of rolling, too.

I love the writing - I like Meyers way of describing environment and character. (Or maybe I thrilled with reading books meant for adolescents after reading academic style writing for all those years of grad school.) While some critics have blasted the flatness of the character development, I think that sometimes it's nice to not get too much info on the people. It's more fun to figure out what's not being said.

After I saw the movie on Sunday, I bought the next book in the series, New Moon. I am almost 200 pages into that and hope to crank it out in the next couple days. Luckily there are two more books in the series already waiting for me. It's kind of fun to have this little reading obsession for a while. The urge to fly through books is one that only happens in spurts for me, so I am going to relish it while it lasts!