This is a must read. I just finished it this morning around 1 am. I had never heard of this book until my cousins were telling me about it when we were at a bridal shower. They went on and on about it. I went out to breakfast with a friend of mine a few days later and asked her if she had ever heard of it. She said when she was at girls camp everyone there was reading it. Well my dear mother bought it and started reading it. I saw it in her car and said "AHHH! I want to read that!" and she ever so graciously gave up her copy to me. I started it last Thursday but only got about 3 pages into it. I took it to the doctors office with me on Friday and everyone that saw it stopped me and told me how great it was. I took it to the hospital with me that same day and got the same response. I was excited to read it but really didn't have time that day.
I didn't start reading it again until Saturday and it was so good. I even posted about how I couldn't stop reading it on Monday morning. Then I got to the middle part which I have to admit was a little over the top mushy teenage romance and even though I still enjoyed reading it, it took me a few days to get past that part. Well last I was so exhausted I fell into bed ready to sleep but I thought, I will just read a few pages before I fall asleep. Well HELLO! All the sudden we moved past mushy gushy and by dang if I couldn't stop reading no matter how tired I was. I stayed up 'till 1:00 and finished the last 150 pages.
It is excellent. There are 2 more books in the series that are already published and two more on their way. And they are making a movie about the first book.
It is written for teenagers. It is by an LDS woman although it is not an LDS book. I love it because it is a thrilling love story and it is rated PG. And there are no naughty words. The idea for the book started with a very vivid dream the author, Stephenie Meyer, had one night. This is what she says:
"I know the exact date that I began writing Twilight, because it was also the first day of swim lessons for my kids. So I can say with certainty that it all started on June 2, 2003. Up to this point, I had not written anything besides a few chapters (of other stories) that I never got very far on, and nothing at all since the birth of my first son, six years earlier.
I woke up (on that June 2nd) from a very vivid dream. In my dream, two people were having an intense conversation in a meadow in the woods. One of these people was just your average girl. The other person was fantastically beautiful, sparkly, and a vampire. They were discussing the difficulties inherent in the facts that A) they were falling in love with each other while B) the vampire was particularly attracted to the scent of her blood, and was having a difficult time restraining himself from killing her immediately. " Click here to be linked to her website.
I just started the next book in the series (thanks again mommy!). I highly recommend it. If you are like me and the sappy stuff gets on your nerves, just know that it is worth it to stick it out. And for those of you (you know who I'm talkin' about) who thrive on the sap.....ENJOY!
Oh, and FYI. Her third book that just came out, Eclipse, is the book that knocked the last Harry Potter Book out of the #1 best seller spot!
24 comments:
ally i will read this entire post at a later date because i am just to tired and loopy to do it at this moment. However, since you had so much to say about it i will have to read the book also-and again at a later date. I wouldn't want to break up my reading of the ns books you love so much.
and it is late here-2 hours later than my post time will say. i am scared to see what time it is. i should be in bed and i still have so much to do.but yet here i am still commenting about something i am too tired to read.
Kristy-my text is abnormally large. Are you saying I talk too much? I really didn't mean to post so much about it. I went back and looked and it is kind of long. Sorry everybody.
Dang! I went back and read what I wrote and it is pretty rambling. I was really sick this afternoon when I posted it. I can't even remember saying half that stuff.
Sometimes I can just go on and on about nothing. Like right now. I am sick and I am very exhausted and I just can't shut up and go to bed.
So Kristy, why are you up so late and what are you doing?
I am going to try and remember that less is more next time.
And maybe that is good advice that applies right now.
I'm just sittin' here having a conversation with myself on my own comment page.
Kind of like earlier today when I was having a conversation with myself in Farrahs chat box.
Pretty darn sad if you ask me. I mean if I wanted to talk to myself I could just get off the computer and do it in person.
SHUT UP Alreay!!!!
ALREADY!!!!!!!!
your site is called allysons rammblings for a reason.
oppps i mean life according to allyson-did it used to be called that because in my head i honestly though it was called allyson rammblings. weird. sorry
yeah. that's what it used to be called.
oh. i think this is the book my young women were telling me about. Is there a tall beautiful vampire in it by chance? Maybe it is in her later ones. Is the author a professor at byu? i just need to read it.
this is very funny last fri night we went to barnes and noble & I picked up this book and read the inside cover and wanted to buy it but Steve said not now.
Allyson, I read your post last night. All of it! I just didn't comment. Then I see you had 17 comments I felt like, Ok I am going to comment now. But, then I see almost all the 17 are you commenting on your own blog! Thanks for the laugh!
Man, I thought I had missed something sense there were so many comments.
I will have to go pick this book up.
I am going to start putting 20 some odd comments on all my posts. Then you will all think I am saying something important in my post.
That is until you actually read the comments.
I thought the same thing Farrah thought but now that I read all of Allyson's comments I now understand that Allyson is just being herself!
And by being myself you mean cute, funny, charming, witty, cute....right?
That's right, Allyson.
Yea Allyson! I'm so glad you finally read it. Marissa and I LOVE the series. I think Marissa has read them all about 3 times each.
Kathy Mc
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