Twilight

Happy NaBloPoMo! And I hope everyone had a pleasant Halloween. I'll have a Halloween post up soon, complete with costume drama.

In other news, I started reading Twilight. Yes, I am the last person on earth to read Twilight. No, NaBloPoMo will not be all about Twilight.

If I'll be honest, I actually finished it and started reading it again. Not because it's good. On the contrary, I found it to be slow and dull. Painfully slow. But then it started to get good, and I regretted how quickly I blew threw the first half of the book. I realized this story is meant to be lingered over, and savored- things left unsaid, heavy silences, furtive glances. There's a certain amount of sadism in every woman that relishes these kinds of fantasies.

I have to keep reminding myself that this is a story meant for teenage girls. It's chaste to the point of frustration. I mean, it takes them half the book to even hold hands. JUST GET IT ON ALREADY. And then I'm also having a really hard time believing that a super gorgeous vampire adonis is going to throw caution to the wind for the first angst ridden emo girl he meets.

I still maintain it's not incredibly well written, but it did send my heart racing. I guess it bums me out because I'm smart enough to know that it's exploiting my weak feminine predilection for beautiful bad boys, yet I'm still dumb enough to fall for it. I'm excited to read the next book, no matter what that says about me.

Oh, and Robert Pattinson is officially on the laminated list.