I’m so sorry that I missed Wednesday guys. I had the Stomach flu yesterday and without going into too much gory detail I’ll just say that I wasn’t thinking all too clearly and I didn’t manage to pots the blog I had written. So here it is…late as can be.
Today I am sick with the Stomach Flu…and it’s really a bummer so in my sickened state I will probably only be able to concentrate on the thing that is most in my mind today and that thing is the Twilight Series. What did you do to me when you challenged me to read a book a would never think of reading. Naturally I picked this series because honestly the fans of these books really annoy me…unfortunately I must report that I am now among their ranks. I have read Twilight and New Moon and am now about half way done with Eclipse…..I better reserve my copy of Breaking Dawn soon.

As I mentioned in an earlier post I happen to be the most fanatical Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel fan that you will probably ever meet. So I was skeptical. I like my vampire lore classic myself and I didn’t appreciate twilight fans coming onto my boards and comparing Edward and Bella to the epic romance of Buffy and Angel…but I digress.

You see I have this problem and the problem is I can’t stop reading these books….I find myself forcing myself to put them down just so I can be reading them longer? The worst part of the whole situation is there are a lot of things about these books that really bother me.

THERE WILL PROBABLY BE SPOILERS OF SOME KIND BELOW IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO READ THEM CONTINUE TO THE NEXT SECTION IN CAPS AND CONTINUE READING

So problem number one. Vampires burn up in the sun. They do not Sparkle! That is just something that I can’t get past. It hurts me every time it’s mentioned in the book. I feel in some ways the author is taking the legends that surround vampires and twisting it until it fits into her plot and that bothers me…. a lot.

OK….I GUESS I’M NOT GOING TO RANT AWAY TO MANY DETAILS…JUST THE ONE

I, Like Mae, also find Bella a bit annoying. She really bothered me in the first book, she’s grown on me a bit, but I find her so obvious and honestly really kind of average. I also find that the plot is incredibly predictable and it’s annoying when Bella is just catching onto something you figured out 250 pages ago. I don’t think their especially well written or creative and yet….

it is painful to put them down. I know I will be sad when I’m done with eclipse and even more sad when I’m done with breaking dawn. And I ask you my friends why is that? Why can so much about the book bother me, including so many of the fundamental elements of the book, and still have me enslaved? Is it a bad soap opera that I watch secretly feeling guilty knowing it’s mediocre but not being able to miss an episode (I really hope that that’s not next for me) or is there something more to this book that has captured my subconscious while my conscious mind is lingering distastefully on the annoyances, a few of which I’ve mentioned.

In any case I’m hooked. I can rant all I like about the things I can’t stand but I am enjoying this book more than I ever imagined I could. Perhaps I’m more of a romantic than I thought or maybe I’ve been brainwashed but it doesn’t matter because even while I’m typing this I’m thinking about happily getting back to reading Eclipse….gosh that kind of sounds like a druggy waiting for their next hit….that’s just sad

Well moving on from the Twilight obsessed part of my life I have a few things to report. I threw a birthday party for my best nerdfighter bud and I made her a pin the tail on the zombified unicorn which was pretty amazing. I’ll see if I can get footage of that somehow for you guys. I also enjoyed a more fireworks over the weekend and am looking forward to hopefully something fun this weekend because my Birthday is on Sunday. I am going to be nineteen and kind of excited about it. It’s hardly a huge birthday but they are lots of fun none the less. I’m also the youngest of all of my friends except one. Her name is Taliah and her birthday is on Monday. It makes me happy that I have someone younger than me…even if it’s just a day.

What do you do for your birthdays? What did you do for your last birthday or your best birthday….I’m only curious because I have no idea what I’m doing for mine yet…but I’ll let you know.

(Oh as for the questions I post, I really feel that if you don’t have a good answer you shouldn’t have to struggle to find one. Don’t make yourself write something just to answer it. I would love some responses of course and let me know if that’s ok…it’s just how I feel)

Well have a lovely week. I hope my twilight rant wasn’t terribly boring…maybe I convinced someone to read it…or not to. Either way

DFTBA

Brittany

Oh I’m so sorry I forgot to post this…and now I’m taking up a piece of Megan’s day as well, if you want to punish me that’s fine. I’ll make sure to be more careful in the future.