I found this article yesterday on an author’s blog and I absolutely agree with the article (and the author’s sentiment, though I won’t link back out of courtesy to the author’s post’s request). The article’s author makes a terrific, and alarming, point about the potentially dangerous and potent message of the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer. [...]
The argument: Bella is no Buffy, to her detriment.
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/the-argument-bella-is-no-buffy-to-her-detriment
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Reading the day away hurts the brain. I just finished Breaking Dawn. Gasp. I’m still on hold for it from the library… which I should go cancel. My friend lent me her friend’s copy — haha — and so I devoured that between last night and this morning (while managing, might I add, to get [...]
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/breaking-dawn
Romance novels & Twilight ranting
I’ve read three books lately: Walk on the Wild Side by Christine Warren, and A Hunger Like No Other and No Rest For the Wicked by Kresley Cole. (The titles. I KNOW. Oy.) They’re all three legitimate romance novels and I’m a bit embarrassed to say I really enjoyed them. You get past the gratuitous [...]
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/romance-novels-twilight-ranting
Upcoming movies: the hype, the adrenaline, and the potential disappoinments…
I’m probably — strike that, I am — behind the times when it comes to the news and hype surrounding the upcoming film Twilight, based on Stephenie Meyer’s novel. For instance, I learned today that its release date is in December, where I had originally (read: in February) heard August. So, good. Um. Yeah. Also, [...]
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/upcoming-movies-the-hype-the-adrenaline-and-the-potential-disappoinments
