Twilight and New Moon

As most of my family and friends know I love reading. I am a complete nerd about it. A few summers ago, when my friends and I lived in Raintree, I made a friend who was just about as nerdy as me. We used to often go the library, get slurpees from 7-11, and have read-a-thons!

But I'm pretty sure I have out done my own nerdyness. Karen (my mother-in-law) gave me a book on Sunday night: Twilight written by a Stephanie Meyer. It's about a girl who moves to a small town in Washington and falls in love with a vampire. Apparently all the girls in her ward just love it and I love hearing about new books. I finished the 500 page book by early Tuesday morning. But not wanting to seem too over eager I waited until Tuesday afternoon to call Karen to see if she had the next book in the series. By Wednesday morning I had picked up the next 55o page book: New Moon. I started reading it around 5:30 pm, took a few breaks now and then for dinner, Jon Stewart, and such, and was done by 4:00 am. I've been completely captured by these books.

For me it's not so much the mystical story with vampires and warewolves that captivates me. It's all about Bella and Edward. I lost myself if Bella's thoughts and feelings and in her relationship with Edward. I felt like I was feeling everything she was. So many of her feelings about Edward mirrored my own about Dave: everything from the anger and frustration of trying to figure out why he does what he does to the way I sometimes have to remind myself to breath when he's around. In the second book, when Edward leaves Bella, I literally felt my heart break. It was almost as if Dave had left me! I felt her utter despair and her consuming emptiness as I read. I became whole again only when Bella was safely in Edward’s arms again.

As for now, I'm waiting in anticipation for the next book Eclipse that comes out in August!