Hilarious Twilight Video

A media specialist shared this awesome video on our state association ning – hilarious!

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

Ok, I’ve been a crazy hermit most of the weekend reading the 629 page third novel in the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse. This story picks up with Bella and Edward living a somewhat normal existence in Forks, Washington – as normal as can be expected when you are in a love triangle with a werewolf and vampire. It’s Bella’s senior year and she’s grounded by her dad, Charlie, for riding a motorcycle, jumping off a cliff and disappearing for days on end. Her best friend, Jacob (werewolf), is so angry with her that he won’t speak to her and he’s the one who told Charlie about the motorcycle.

Charlie finally lets up on Bella and she and her boyfriend, Edward (vampire), are spending lots of time together and getting really serious. Jacob even forgives her and he and Edward call a truce so that they can both spend time with her, while protecting her from the evil vampires who want to kill her.

I don’t want to give away too much, but here’s a little about what happens:

• Bella and Edward both give in – he will turn her into a vampire after graduation and she agrees to marry him
• Jacob and Bella finally admit their true feelings for one another
• The werewolves and vampires work together to exterminate Victoria and her crazy baby vampire posse

I loved this book, but it resolved NOTHING! I guess that is a good thing because that paves the way for Breaking Dawn, the fourth book in the series that is set for release in fall of 2008. Not sure if I can wait that long…

What do you think will happen???

• Will Jacob return to Forks? Will he ever imprint?
• How will Charlie react to Bella’s engagement?
• Will Bella really become a vampire? If so, do you think she will make it through the early stages?
• Did Victoria leave any tricks behind?

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

My new favorite author this week is Stephenie Meyer, author of Twilight, which I just finished reading yesterday. I was a dork all weekend and could not stop reading this book! It is 498 pages long – I normally don’t read anything that long but it went really fast! Also, I normally don’t read vampire books, but this is more of a mystery/love story than a creepy vampire book – nothing like the Cirque du Freak series (which is also good, but just in a different way).

The main characters in this book are Bella (Isabella) and Edward. Bella just moved to a dreary, rainy town in Washington state called Forks from sunny Arizona. She never really had a lot of friends or any boyfriends before, but makes lots of girlfriends right away and gets asked out by three boys (she turns them all down) as soon as she moves to Forks. She is strangely attracted to Edward Cullen – this sort-of weird, but very handsome guy. Well, it turns out that he likes her, too, but he’s a vampire. You’ll have to read it to see what happens…And there’s a sequel, New Moon. I’m going to buy that one this week and you can check it out after spring break!