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Hi.

I belong to the Boys & Girls Club. They gave me two of the Twilight Books for Christmas. This series is about Vampires. I am on page 13 of the first book and it is good so far.

I also belong to the Center For Grieving Children, in a program for kids who are not bereaved yet. They gave me a a special fleece blanket that is cool. Most fleece blankets are tied along the edges but mine was made of small squares tied together so the front is all fluffy with the ties! And it is very colorful!

Santa always brings me good books for Christmas, so I am wondering which ones he will bring me this year! Last year I received the Lord of The Rings trilogy plus the Hobbit.

MAXI

Hi Maxi. I've read all 4 of the Twilight books and I LOVE them! :ding: They are very good. I think you'll like them a lot. You'll have to let me know what you think. I really love Edward, the main vampire character.

Your fleece blanket sounds very special. That was super nice of them to get you that.

I hope you and your mom both have a wonderful Christmas tomorrow!

Hi Maxi~

Well, as a mother, I usually do not allow my young son to read Vampire stories but this series seems to be highly regarded. I will probably read them myself, also, to know what my kid is taking in. A mom can't be too careful, you know.





Merme

Well... Mary-El (aka Mom) these books do come very HIGHLY RECOMMMENDED! I know any son would love them. I am now on page 21. You should read them, too.

loz ~Thank you for your reply. I will let you know what I think!

Mom and I are having a nice Christmas Eve.



MAXI

Vampire books are my favorite! But these books are tame enough for a teen to read. And it's a great love story. And oh Edward is fantastic. I want my own Edward.

I'm glad you are having a nice Christmas Eve Maxi--you and your mom deserve to have a wonderful Christmas.

Hi Maxi and Merme,
I read the Twilight books too- Loz is right they are okay for a teen- specially if Mom reads too and you all discuss them, used to do that with my oldest dd... she is a reader too like me.

Hope you all have a happy and wonderful Christmas... !
Nana

I haven't read them myself, but a lot of my friends really like the books. They were crazy over the movie when it came out a few weeks ago. I think one of the guys in the movie played Cedric in one of the Harry Potter movies - the girls were all over him lol I'm not much for vampires, but the series is VERY popular up here. When I was up in Quebec during the summer, and another book in the series came out, literally all the students crowed into the tiny bookstore to get it...they only stocked 2 copies!

Hi Kenny , want to interrupt to WIsh you a Very Merry christmas there.

Any snow ?
We dont have any, just rain.
If the girls like Harry Potter books, what do boys like?

My daughter, Jonni (17) has read all of these books too over this past summer. She enjoyed them but thought they were a little tame. I guess she likes her vampires more gruesome.
I agree reading just about anything is good for a growing mind. And discussing the ideas and plots with parents is important too. I believe having a lot of prior notice of possible pitfalls helps a person make the right decisions in life. It is easier to take the most proper path for you when you have an idea what might be hiding around the corner on your other path alternatives. A kind of forewarned is forearmed kind of thing.

Tina, I didn't want to read them at first because I thought they'd be too tame for me too. They are pretty tame, but soooooo good!

I have read the Twilight and am now reading New Moon.....LOVE THEM!!! I soo want an Edward!! Has anyone read the what is written for the draft of Midnight Sun off of Stephenie Meyers' page?? It is incomplete, but SOOOOOOOOOO good! It is Twilight from Edward's perspective instead of Bella's.

I did read that Jenn....I'll fight you for Edward. I want him to sparkle for me.

Well, let me put it this way. Jonni read them all. The too tame might have been more attitude because she avoids enthusiasm when something is as popular as these. A friend keeps giving her Hollister and Abercrombie clothing items. She won't wear them because they are popular. So I am not sure how accurate her views reflected how she truly felt about the books or an adopted attitude. (but this attitude saves me from having to buy brand name stuff and pay the price, so not complaining)

Joani
Your girl is a winner......my son was that way too when young.
He didnt want designer anything.
Jeans and he used to con me into making his shirts and jackets, just to be different..

He is still dark color fellow.. Black or dark green.. His wife is dark green fan.

...About a third of the way through New Moon right now....and FURIOUS with Edward. I read on the author's site that she tells people to read this book twice because she has found that they rush through it waiting for Edward to appear again...and she's right!!!! I am trying to MAKE myself read it slowly, but it just isn't happening.

Your probably trying to hurry so you can watch the babies.LOL

How are the sweeties for christmas? Miss seeing them since Jiffy was there.

I read these books and loved them! It took me months to get the girls to finally start reading them. They didn't think they'd like it because their not usually into darker stories, but they loved theses books more than I did! The three of us had a girls night out and saw the movie together. It was a lot of fun.

Maxi is about 150 pages into the first book and he says it is very good so far.

I'm glad to hear all of your positive comments about this series since I was reluctant to let him read them.



Merme

To be honest I might reread them again soon. I think they are great books for teens and adults. My 40 year old sister was the latest Twilight junkie in my family. She read all 4 books in 2 days. My 17 year old niece is ADDICTED to them. She can tell you everything from all of the books....she even knows a bunch of the quotes out of them.

I watched the movie for free on Youtube. They took it off now due to copyright violations, but it was not very good compared to the book(which I pretty much figured--books are always better). I think my fav. part of the movie was the baseball scene.

My DIL and I, just watched this movie yesterday!!!

And my 14 yr. old granddaughter in WA. is totally addicted to the books!!! It seems that ALL the young girls are in love with Edward!!

I'm even in love with him Shirley. You probably would be too after reading all the books. Very cool that you just went to see the movie. If you can you really should read the books though, they are so much better......

I really didn't tink the movie was very well made, but I know that books are always better than the movies!

My DIL decided that she has to get the series, and she is going to watch the movie with her daughter and discuss it with her. She said that she knows that she will love it!

Stephen and I went to see the movie on Monday....we went on a date. Anyways, I was REALLY disappointed in the movie. There was SSOOOOOOOO much that didn't follow the book at all!! The movie would have been perfectly fine if they had followed the book exactly. It is a wonder that the Twilight fans loved it soo much. I mean, I'm having a hard time figuring out why Stephenie Meyer signed off on the screen play itself!

I just finished the series this morning...I'm in love with Edward. LOVED the series! This is the most that I have read in years and years. My brain officially needs a break now.

I finally had the chance to pick up Maxi's copy and started it. What I've read so far was really well done. It is an easy-on-the-eyes kind of read. Unfortunately he took it with him tonight so I have to wait til Friday for my next installment.


Merme

Very cool Merme, can't wait for you to continue your reading.

The books are all very easy to read. I like her writing style.

Did you get very far?

my 11 year old grand daughter Alexis read the books and saw the movie. She loved the books and has all the stickers, shirts, key rings and stuff to go with them, but even she was disappointed in the movie.

Merme, I'm glad you liked what you read so far! If Stephen wasn't half way through my copy, I'd send it up for you to borrow. I bought it at Sam's Club for $4.88 and it has been passed around quite a bit. The cover is all beat up, but that's what the best books look like, right?

If you go to the author's website, she has the draft of Midnight Sun that was leaked online. It is the first book written from Edward's point of view. It is incomplete, but I really really liked it. It made some parts of Twilight make more sense...knowing exactly what Edward was thinking when he said certain things. I'm going to read Twilight again now that I have more of Edward's personality understood in my mind.

How many books are in the series?

4 altogether. And they are all quite big. You should read them Jess. They really aren't just teenage books.

Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn

I would like to read them. Have heard a lot of good things about them from other people and from all of you! I will have to look for them!

They have them at Walmart pretty cheap. I have 3 of them here but they are my best friends. I wish I could keep them. The last one I got from the library.

Loz i finshed twilight i like it but the beging of new moon was stupid...:)

MAXI

Maxi, the beginning of it was a little bland, I agree, but New Moon does get better...tho, I did feel like throwing the book against the wall at one part....but it got better.

Maxi, if you go to Stephenie Meyer's website and click on the Twilight Saga area, there is a link to read the draft for "Midnight Sun". It is incomplete, but I think you would really like it. It is Twilight written from Edward's perspective. It is a pretty short read and it comes up as an Adobe file, so you can save it to the computer and just read it on the computer. Reading that before I read New Moon really helped me understand Edward better.

New Moon made me want to scream, it was my least favorite of the 4 books.

signed, not a Jacob fan.

I'm not much of a Jacob fan either....tho, I will leave it at that. I don't want to spoil anything for anyone!