April

After reading Twilight 3 times, I decided to read the classics that inspired such writing... (I know now reading them as a teen did no justice to these great books) Pride and Prejudice and then Mansfield Park, both by the brilliant late Jane Austen. Barnes and Nobles has a classics section and the books range from 4.95 to around 7.95 depending I suppose on popularity of the classic? They were both extremely entertaining and I can not decide which was the better. Pride and Prejudice had me laughing out loud! When Mr. Darcy tells Elizabeth, " I am not afraid of you." It was such a moment. However, Mansfield Park and the society in which the characters Fanny Price and Edmund Bertram are brought together and dispersed tugged at my heart a little more. Next on the list is Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (her only novel).

12 days and counting....

so it's march and this is totally out of control... we have friends who are brushing their teeth and reading at the same time.... we are spending too much time at the park just to distract our kids!!!!... 'no honey mommy can't push you in the swings, Bella just cliff dove and i have to see if she's o.k." wow. please please grab some friends and create a fun movie night... the video is out March 21 and somehow we'll get over the differences of book to film! five of us spent 4 and a half hours last night disecting the movie companion book... there were phrases like "too doughy and dewy" thrown around... haha we decide we needed to sit on the panel of casting... a little too late!!! we still think scarlet johannsen would have made a better rosalie and rebecca from grey's?? aaggghhhh! not my first choice for esme! looking up all the web info and we didn't ever get around to the purpose of the night.... to get together to watch the changling... and i accidently slipped some crucial info as we were discussing bellas car in book 4 and well hopefully the two friends on book 2 didn't catch it..... yikes sorry!!

Edward/Bella

I never thought this would turn into an all consuming reading project but these books are some of the most creatively innovative pieces of literature to hit our era. Meyer somehow managed to take the timeless classics of Pride and Prejudice, Romeo and Juliet, and Wuthering Heights and turn them full circle, emulating timeless struggles of love, temptation, jealousy, sacrifice, and family. Edward and Bella leap off the pages into your conscious and little else in daily life can be accomplished until you force yourself to reach a point that enables you to tear your eyes from the all consuming 1900's sophisticated ramblings of Edward, directed most of the time to Bella. I'm almost tempted to forget I'm are reading about vampires... yes interesting. However, it's brilliantly weird the way the human struggles and frailties mirror so beautifully off Edward. There are four books in the series and having devoured the first three Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse, well over 1600 pages, I'm tempted to only read one chapter at a time in book four, Breaking Dawn, to somehow slowly linger the ending to this saga...won't happen. Happy reading.

February

This is the official first month of the book club. We have decided to read the Twilight series, Stephenie Meyer, a New York Times bestseller, and came wholeheartedly recommended by a mom with her bjorn clad two week old baby in tow chosing a new read in the Target book aisle. Pick it up for 8.88 there or Sam's Club or even Walmart... of course the typical Barnes and Nobles will do just fine as well. Comment back on anything that stirs you. No, we haven't seen the movie.