What You Should Be Doing, but You're Not... Part One: Twilight and New Moon

What You Should Be Doing, but You're Not...

Part One

Well hello there people. I just got a new wireless keyboard, so I'm all into typing today. Because frankly, this keyboard doesn't make me want to gnaw my fingers off.

I'm bored, so I'm going to be incredibly pompous and tell you what you should be reading, listening to, and watching during the summer... or whenever you have the chance... This is the first part... I plan to have multiple parts.

I'll grade the things as well...

A= Absolutely Amazing

B= Bombs Boredom.

C= Could be interesting

D= Drown it in detergent

F= F-ing fling it across the room

Books

Twilight/New Moon I know I keep going on and on about this book but I think you should all read it. (Not so sure it's Tdalec's taste though.)

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Summary Twilight:Twilight is a book about a girl who has to move from sunny Phoenix, Arizona to a dreary town called Forks, Washington. The girl moves in with her estranged father and goes to her first day of school expecting it to be horrible... it's exactly how she expects it to be. Except for one thing... at lunch she spots a table full of people that are abnormally perfect and beautiful. One person especially catches her eye... His name is Edward Cullen and the reason why she is so confused about this boy is because he looks at her like he wants to kill her. Little does she know, that that's exactly what he wants to do. Edward is a Vampire... a "good" vampire. Good meaning he is one who abstains from drinking human blood, however, Bella (the girl) seems to be his weakness. Edward spends months trying to not kill her and finally decides to become her friend. There are three things that Bella knows. 1. Edward is a vampire 2. There's a part of him-how big a part, she isn't sure-that truly thirsts for her blood 3. She is unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

SPOILERS: Half the book is about Edward trying to deny his feelings for Bella and him trying to stay away from her (for her own safety.) For just as Bella thinks that she is not good enough for him, Edward thinks he is a monster and isn't good enough for her.

Summary New Moon:New Moon is the sequel to Twilight. It'smuch sadder than the first one

SPOILERS:, for in the second chapter, Edward leaves Bella, claiming to not love her anymore. She takes it horribly and gets into a funk for months, everything passes by without her noticing. The passing months are portrayed by writing them down on a blank page for each one (September,October, December, exc.) The book portrays the aftermath of loosing your true soul mate. Bella goes through a hard time that makes everyone think she is crazy. And maybe she is, for whenever she is doingsomething dangerousthe angry voice of Edward pops into her head awakening her broken heart.

She continues to do dangerous things to hear his voice again and ends up befriending a forgotten acquaintance. His name is Jacob Black and he lives in a town not far away from Forks. At first, everything is fine, Bella and Jacob become best friends, but Jacob is in love with her. Bella can't reciprocate the feelings because her heart belongs to Edward. Jacob is crushed but promises her he will never hurt her and he will never stop trying to win her over. Bella compares herself to Juliet (in Romeo and Juliet) and wonders what would have happened if Romeo had gotten bored of Juliet. Would she have lived happilly ever after with Paris? What if Paris had been her best friend? Would she have been able to give him half of her heart that was squashed by Romeo.

She considers becoming Jacob's girlfriend(to make everything easier), but Jacob disapears. It turns out that Jacob is a Werewolf, the sworn enemies of the Vampires. Bella istorn between the two groups, but starts hanging out with the Werewolfs, because Edward is not coming back. Just as she and Jacob are about to get together, Alice (Edward's sister) shows up to check up on her.They later find out that Edward is in trouble (because he thinks that Bella is dead, so he wants to kill himself. It's very Romeo and Juliet) and the only one who can save him is Bella. Bella later finds out that Edward only left because he thought she would be safer without him... he was wrong and he returns.

This angers Jacob and he tells Bella he can not be friends with a person who is with a vampire. This hurts Bella but she wants, no needs to be with Edward. In the end, Bella begs to be turned into a vampire, something Edward does not agree with because he feels when you become a vampire you no longer have your soul.

Review Twilight: Twilight first fell into my lap at school... I mean literally fell into my lap... It was actually thrown at me by a friend. The cover got me interested. It was a picture of a pale pair of hands holding a red apple. I thought, cool. Then I read the back and I was immediately turned off. Vampire? I wasn't one for the horror books. Also, another thing that turned me off was the Young Readers stamped on the back. I can't stand Younger Readers books. For me, it's synonymous with crap-fest. My friend wouldn't let me get away with it that easily though.. she forced me to take it. So here I am walking around the school with this book (it wouldn't fit in my canvas bag that I use for a book bag.)

At First, I found it very hard to get into the book, not because it was hard, but because every time I started reading it someone would snatch it away from me and squeal, "This is the best book EVA!!!!" Annoying as hell. Even one of my other friends, who I had seen reading the book a week ago, kept taking it away from me at lunch and selecting moments in the book to re-read. So I took the book home and sat down to read it. I couldn't put it down. Stephanie Meyer portrays a dark romance that makes you fall in love with the main boy (Edward.) And it makes you feel like you are right there with Bella. You begin to feel attached to the characters and you can't allow your self to put it down, before you know that they are okay. I finished the book in about four hours (it's like a 550 page book.) The next day I went to the library and reserved the book (some idiot had it checked out.) And then I went back to school... there were like 30 people walking around with the sequel and I wanted to mug them... I also checked everyone of them to make sure their copy wasn't the one from the public library (that was late.) Finally... about a week ago I got the sequel.

Don't be turned off by the Young Reader stamp. I expected a book about a pretty, popular, cheerleader type girl who falls in love with the popular guy who is secretly a vampire, but that's not the case. The main character, Bella, is a smart, shy, clumsy girl who is so unsure of herself and has very low self-esteem. She can't believe Edward is even looking at her. It makes you relate to character and it doesn't make me want to punch her in the face. For she is not a typical, caddy high school student. She is ordinary, but Edward finds her extraordinary.

Review New Moon: About a week ago I got New Moonand I finished it in two days, because I was reading it at work. The book is much sadder and is interesting because it has allusions from Romeo and Juliet. My only complaint about this book is that there is too much Jacob, I don't like Jacob. Andif you read it you will understand.

Over all:These books put you in a trance that makes feel like you are right there in the book.It's a very easy read, which is why I give it a B (I like more challenging books.) Thebooks address the info that are facts about vampires (not being able to sleep,sucking blood, exc)and what are myths (like not showing up in mirrors, stake through the heart, turning into a bat.) The book is so enchanting and feels so real that you forget that it has anything to do with vampires.

The third book, Eclipse,comes out on August 7th (I think...I'll have to double check that later.) And I'm definitely going to get it.

Grade: B+