Thanks to Books on the Brain, I’m feeling a lot less guilty about my all-consuming weekend of reading. Since I started reading Twilight and New Moon, I’ve been neglecting Favorite Man, Girl and Grandma Betty. Only the dogs were happy with my reading since they got to lay next to me and got petted occassionally. Feeling guilty, I decided to stop reading my book and checked out what was happening in the blog world. Yeah, I know ~ that’s just more reading and neglecting BUT thankfully, I popped into Books on the Brain, which is my usual first stop, and was thrilled to see I’m not the only one “escaping” into a book.
Yet another reason why Books on the Brain is one of my favorite blogs ~ if you’re a reader and haven’t checked it out, I recommend you head over and give it a read.
The good thing about reading is Favorite Girl likes to curl up with me and read at the same time. And she’s thrilled that we can talk about the story of Edward and Bella. 😉 Although she doesn’t always like my take on things…
Displaced Beachbums 
I read all four books in a week!
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Lisa
Whew…glad I’m not the only one. I worried about the whole “stalker” aspect of Edward and Bella’s “damsel in distree” routine but it’s given FG and I a chance to talk about relationships and she agrees with my take on both characters. Her favorite is “Alice” ~ which is good because I see Alice as fun, funky, and in control.
KGB
See both my comments and Lisa. My fear as the mom of a daughter is that she’s going to think being the victem is an option in a relationship OR that when a guy pays that much attention to you, that it’s romantic rather than CREEPY.
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Oh, and I don’t like how his temper flares up all the time over a word or a look from Bella. Come on! To me that’s emotional abuse. He has all the red flags of a wife beater down the road!
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Well, now I’m 200 pages or so in and I’ll tell you what’s bothering me.. Bella went from being a strong, independent girl- taking care of her mom and choosing to move to another state and being really responsible- to this mooning, obedient wimp of a girl- yuck!! Ok, so Edward is beautiful- his eyes make her melt, he’s physically perfect, yadda yadda yadda, but does she really need to play the victim all the time? I don’t like how she’s ditching her friends repeatedly because he says so. I don’t like how he’s following her around and she doesn’t even get angry. I don’t like how she views what amounts to stalking as him protecting her and her feeling safe. I guess there is a lot I don’t like! It’s one thing to read all that from the perspective of being an adult, but my 11 year old just read it and thinks it’s the greatest thing ever. We’ll talk when I finish it!!
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I just read Twilight because L got it for Christmas and told me to read it first. I finished it in 2 days. I bought New Moon today and I’m well into it.
I recognize that I’m not the target audience, but it was readable enough – I’m liking New Moon much better so far.
Send me an email about the things that bothered you – I’m interested in the musings of a parent of a girl L’s age. I wonder if we have the same take on things!
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Lisa
Let me know how your discussion about the book goes ~ I’m curious to know if it’s the same things that bothered me.
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Oh good! I’m not the only one!
My oldest (11) got Twilight for Christmas and finished it in 2 days. I’m reading it now (I’ve read 4 chapters) so that we can discuss it. Already there are a few things I know we need to talk about!
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