The Twilight Series

No one is saying anything here for a long time, so I'll just say that I'm back on a huge Twilight kick, or should I say "Edward kick." My sister-in-law just calls the books "Edward."

I got into Twilight early, within a few weeks of publication, then waited impatiently for each book to come out. Stephenie Meyer's greatest strength as an author is that she's compulsively readable. Her books are so hard to put down. Recently I figured out how to download audiobooks for free from my library onto my phone, so I've been listening to all three. I finished Eclipse last week, but realized that I was still in the mood for the Twilight books, so I just started over. I'm nearly done listening to Twilight again. I turn it on while I'm driving or washing dishes or folding laundry. It's great company.

So what do you like or dislike about these books? Most people I know get obsessed as easily as I did.

And have you been following the movie news? Cedric Diggory from Harry Potter will be playing Edward! They've cast Bella also, and now her friends Jessica and Eric. I actually like their choices for leads.

And I have two theories that I've already emailed to Bonnie. Tell me what you think:

1 - Do you think Edward would have fallen in love with Bella if he had been able to hear her thoughts? He was utterly bored with the pettiness and mundaneness of every thought he heard from the people in the high school. I didn't see anything to suggest that her thoughts were less petty than anyone else's. She was just given the benefit of a filter, getting to decide what came out her mouth instead of Edward instantly knowing everything she thought. I think that the combination of her irresistible scent and her unreadable thoughts made her fascinating where every other human had been boring. Because of his fascination, he took the time to get to know her, then fell in love with her. I think he would never have put himself into a position to fall in love with her if he could have read her mind. Remember the several-day period where he quizzed her about everything in her life, down to her favorite color? I think that it was a direct result of her mental privacy.

2 - In Eclipse, during the vampire battle, I really thought Edward would succeed in persuading Riley that Victoria had been lying to him, and that the Cullens' way was a better way of life. I thought that Riley was going to join the Cullens, throwing a new person into the mix and upsetting the balance. Then he died. But then, when Edward and Bella were reunited with the Cullens, there was another newborn vampire (Bree). At that point, I became really convinced that Bree would be talked into joining the Cullens, and would maybe even fall for Edward, which would have made a fascinating complication in my opinion. But then she died. As I type this, I'm realizing that these two newborns were included in the story to show Bella a worst case scenario of what awaits her when she becomes a vampire. Knowing how bad it could get (she could get) makes her decision to still be changed a more informed one.

Anyway, that should be enough to get us all talking about books again.