Last month I finished reading Eclipse, the third book in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series. I am not only obsessed with these books, I'm POSSESSED!!!
Here's how it all got started:
My friend Kim and I are hopeless romantics. We just LOVE all the same types of things. I'd heard about the Twilight series by another friend, Jessica (who, again, is another romantic) but was trying to finish some other books I'd started so I thought that I might delve into the series later. However, my friend Kim called me one day ECSTATIC telling me to get on Amazon RIGHT NOW and order all three books!!! So as I was accessing the site she read to me the meadow scene from Twilight. And it goes a little something like this:
Wait, let me first set this up - Edward is a forever 17-year-old vampire. Bella is a 17-year-old human girl. They like each other, she knows he's a vampire, but she also knows he's a little dangerous because he craves her blood more than any other he's ever come into contact with in all his 90+ years as a vampire. Mrs. Meyers vampires don't burst into flames under the sun, in fact all those legends about the garlic and holy water are just merely rumors in her world. Edward is beautiful, a vegetarian vampire (meaning he only drinks animal blood), and very romantic. This scene is when Bella (the narrorator) first sees Edward in the sun...
"Edward in the sunlight was shocking. I couldn't get used to it, though I'd been staring at him all afternoon. His skin, white despite the faint flush from yesterday's hunting trip, literally sparkled, like thousands of tiny diamonds were embedded in the surface. He lay perfectly still in the grass, his shirt open over his sculpted, incandescent chest, his scintillating arms bare. His glistening, pale lavendar lids were shut, though of course he didn't sleep. A perfect statue, carved in some unknown stone, smooth like marble, glittering like crystal."
With THAT FIRST PARAGRAPH IN THAT CHAPTER I WAS HOOKED!!!! A gorgeous god of a VAMPIRE lying in a meadow with a girl and SPARKLING LIKE DIAMONDS?? WHOO-HA-HA!!!!
That was it.
The fat lady sang.
And I've been singing choir in the church of Twilight ever since! I read all 3 books in a week flat and have spent most of the last month downloading songs, youtube vids, pictures, rereading, and spending my time on Twilight Moms (a myspace group and now a website).
And our theory on vampires sparkling in the sun? They are reflecting it!
Above is my little Halloween shrine to Twilight - complete with miniature vampire gargoyles and bat lantern. Mom calls it "The Alter".You see, after you visit http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/ you will be hooked too! She has a music playlist of songs that inspired each book, and if you go to "Twilight Series" and then "Movie News" you can see all the actors Stephenie sees as her characters, although, sadley, she does not have any say in who plays who in the movie. Movie will be up in either 2009 or 2010, shooting begins this February.
The story is set in the real-life town of Forks, WA, which is the one place in the U.S. that gets the most rain - convenient place for vampires, who would attract too much attention in the sun, to live. The rain forests in this place are soooo ethereal looking - I had no idea places like this existed in the U.S.!!
This is where the vampires roam -
I love it and now have Forks, WA in the top 5 places on earth I will visit someday.
So Stephenie Meyer's number one pick for Edward is Henry Cavill so I made a little remix full of pics of him from his different movies and photo shoots and why each pic is soooooo Edward Cullen. Plus he sorta looks like my Andy when he was young :9
Enjoy!
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