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Twilight Series

malenalott — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:00:56 +0000

Twilight series, by Stephenie Meyer

First line: ”I’d never given much thought to how I would die – though I’d had reason enough in the last few months – but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this.”

I resisted this book series – a vampire love story set in the modern day gloom of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula – for months. I’d pass it by with its beguiling jacket design and linger, toying with the idea of giving in and following the masses of emotional teenage girls a decade younger than myself that were simply rabid for the books. The kicker to finally get the tome into my hands was innocent enough: Volunteering for a local film festival, I found myself for five hours facing a poster. A poster for a movie for a certain book that featured what was unmistakably an actor from the one series that I am rabid about – Harry Potter.

There was no going back and I bought the book immediately. And, you know what, I loved it. And, then I bought the next two in the series and sped through them faster than the vampire love interest flies through the misty Washington woods searching for prey. There are aspects of the books –Twilight and the sequels New Moon and Eclipse – that I find supremely annoying, probably more so because I know these are the same aspects that those hordes of teen girls find irresistible. But Meyer’s writing is superb and pulls you in for a fast-paced, can’t-turn-the-page-quickly-enough read.

The fourth and final book in the series, Breaking Dawn, is released August 2, with the movie version of Twilight to follow this December and I’m finding that I can barely stand the wait. Maybe if I had a sexy vampire love interest or a scruffy werewolf best friend to occupy me…

For: The shy, emotional teen girl that aches for a heart-shattering obsession with the undead (and shuns the daylight) and for the loud, straight-forward non-teen that switches out the book jacket to read on the plane home so no one knows what a nerd she is (or, so I’ve heard). – Jenny Coon Peterson

Twilight Teaser Trailer

malenalott — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:00:04 +0000

The Meyer Empire reigns supreme with the author’s first novel in the Twilight series to hit the big screen on December 12th, and her fourth book in the series to hit shelves in August. Because I was a) curious and b) a fan of vampire stories, I decided to take a bite. Pun intended. I just finished Twilight and can see why fans are so rabid about Stephanie Meyer’s Edward Cullen, the gorgeous vampire who has been seventeen for a very, very long time. There’s is a Romeo & Juliet Meets Beauty & the Beast kind of love story. So stay tuned later this week when we’ll review the first three books. Pick up a copy of Entertainment Weekly to read the cover story on the movie and a nice interview with the humble young author.

Here’s the trailer. What do you think?

Deepak Chopra & Stephanie Meyer on A/B TV

malenalott — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:00:03 +0000

New posts! To see interviews with best-selling authors Deepak Chopra (The Third Jesus) and Stephanie Meyer (Twilight) in Borders Book Club interviews, click here for our A/B TV page.