Twilight Confessions

I am over it.

I'll start at the beginning. I saw the Twilight series in my sisters room and asked her about them, she said they were about vampires and I automatically tuned out the rest of the synopsis. Then my friends started reading them and I was still a little skeptical but then for my birthday my BFFs gave me all three books, so now I had to read them and I must say that I was hooked as soon as I started reading. Before I knew it I was checking Twilight fan sites daily, reading the books over and over, and I was so excited to find out they were going to make it into a movie. I am a embarrassed to say that I saw the movie three times in the theaters and own it. After watching it at home I decided that I would have gotten a completely different cast except for Jackson and Kellan. And that's when Twilight lost its magic. I'm not sure if it was the movie or the fact that Twilight had gotten so big it was getting annoying I was just over it.

Twilight will always have a special place in my heart because it made me think that maybe i did enjoy reading. I vowed to never read another novel after reading 'One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest' in Grade 12 (I hate that book and Jack Nicholson). Maybe I am a reader? So I kept reading and have read lots of books since then some complete rubbish (The Last Song) others I couldn't put down (Hunger Games), some I wish I read when I was twelve (Daddy Long Legs) and some that are just timeless (Sense and Sensibility). So to any Twilight haters out there yes Twilight isn't great fiction and it isn't going to win any awards but do you only watch movies that win Oscars? Come on, own up, I know you've seen your fair share of movies like 'Win a Date With Tad Hamilton'. Aren't they the same thing? Twilight is a fun read and sometimes you don't want to think about why this character did this? and what does this represent? Anyway I want to say thank you to my BFFs and Stephenie Meyer for getting me to read again after I was traumatised by Miss Christofi and her love of One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest.*

By the way, I can't wait for the boys to be old enough so we can read Robinson Crusoe, Swiss Family Robinson, all of Paul Jennings short stories and every book by Roald Dahl.

*Grade 12 English we spent half the year talking about that stupid book and movie. The other half we did Hamlet, which was much better than Grade 10 English when we had to do a section on Romeo and Juliet....that was super fun for me.