Book Friday – Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
11 September 2009
I can’t believe it’s Friday already. When Ben works a shortened week, it totally throws me off. (But I’m not complaining!)
So Ben was gone all last week on a camping trip and I read Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer as intended. I didn’t do the listening-to-Muse-while-reading thing because I was too tired to do anything but flop on the couch and read. And even though I knew everything that happened, there were still nights that I had a tough time closing my book and going to sleep. Even when I did close my book, I was thinking through the whole Bella/Edward/Jacob situation.
I’ve put a lot of thought into why I like the Twilight Saga so much. Probably more thought than is healthy. I always come back to the same conclusion—I DON’T KNOW. But I already feel like I could reread books one through three again. I’ve even thought about rereading Breaking Dawn, which I swore to Ben I would never do. (The book wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t what I wanted.)
I often get asked why I write for teenagers, and my answer is pretty similar to the one regarding Twilight—I don’t really know. They just happen to be the stories I have inside me. And I know it’s a good fit for me because teen fiction is what I latch onto in my pleasure reading time too. I’ve loved a lot of books written for adults, but other than Jane Austen, I haven’t reread any of them. But I think I’ve read This Lullaby about five times. I’ve read the first three books of the Twilight Saga twice just in the last six months. And—this is a little embarrassing—I watched the movie twice while Ben was gone. Two nights in a row. I’m crazy excited for the release of New Moon. Not so crazy that we’ll be at a midnight showing, but crazy enough that I think about it embarrassingly often.
Oh, wait, I’m talking about Eclipse.
And this is why I’ll never be a fabulous book reviewer. My official stance on Eclipse is that I don’t know why, but I love it.
Enjoy the weekend!
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