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Rating: really liked it
Stephen King once said, "Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good."
I couldn't agree more, Stephen. With that, we shall kick this off with a joke:
Heh.
This re-reading is brought to you courtesy of Project: Hindsight.
I'm sorry folks. I just could not get through this
shit book another time. However, since I've already read it a few times, I feel extremely confident in skipping to the review. But first, can someone please explain to me why this book is 563 pages?! Seriously, how is it possible a book with almost no plot can be so long? When I first read
New Moon back in 2008, I didn't like it. In fact I'm not even sure why it had three stars because I remember being super frustrated. Even though Edward and Bella's relationship deeply disturbs my soul, Bella is so incredibly boring without him. I'm not even sure how Stephenie Meyer managed 563 pages. Truly, I'm amazed because I can sum up
New Moon in one big picture:
But let's get on with it, I'll go into some detail for ya.
The book starts off on Bella's 18th birthday, a day she has been dreading for months only because in her mind she will be one year older than Edward. So, she makes a huge production about people not celebrating her birthday, but the Cullens ignore her and Alice plans a party. Before Edward forces her to attend they watch Romeo and Juliet (the book's supposed theme) and they have merry little conversation about Edward's contingency plans once Bella dies. Now, let's not forget they've only been dating for a few months. Yet, here they are making out and talking about killing themselves in the event of the other's death. How romantic. Don't even ask me the logic behind how they can even kiss when his teeth are supposed to be "venom coated." Stephenie Meyer gives some bull shit excuse she must have learned from ass-grab 101. But I digress...
Finally, they make it to the birthday party. Bella gets a paper cut and Jasper almost single-handedly ends this series on page 29.
Unfortunately, to my dismay his attempt was foiled by Edward. Eddie pushes Bella out the way and she crashes into the glass plates, slashing up her arm. Pause, let's think about that scene a bit: Who's bright idea was it to have glass plates? With a human. In a room full of vampires. That drink blood. Isn't Alice psychic? Why didn't she
see Bella cutting her finger on the wrapping paper? Wait, don't think about that because if you spend all your time contemplating the stupidity, we'll never get through this review.
Obviously, Eddie is not happy with the events that went down at his place and Bella further irritates him by apologizing for...wait for it...being human. Bella, you know you've been hanging out with mythical creatures too much when you start thinking your humanity isn't normal. But anyway, Eddie does what any loving boyfriend would do after their girlfriend is attack by their brother: he ignores her. And because Eddie is "Alpha Male Edward" and Bella is "Submissive Mary Sue Bella," she doesn't confront him about it. Instead, she waits for him to be ready. On the third day of ignoring her, he drags he into the words and chucks up the deuces. The exchange goes a little like this:
Alpha Male Edward tells Submissive Mary Sue Bella firmly, "No, I don't want you to come. You're no good for me." And she pretty much agrees realizing how much of a waste of space she is. Then Edward just pours salt all over her open wound and tells her:
"Don't do anything reckless or stupid," he ordered, no longer detached. "Do you understand what I'm saying?...I'm thinking of Charlie, of course. He needs you. Take care of yourself--for him."
I nodded helplessly.
Wow. Relly? You're just going to let him order you around like that? How about you look after yourself FOR YOU first, everyone else second? Awesome Bells. Can I call you Bells? Not only do you have ZERO self-preservation skills, but also no self-confidence. Just awesome. There's only about a million or so girls looking up to you as a role model. No pressure to be a strong female character. You could have walked away from this with grace, but no, instead all your dignity flies out the window when you pull a bitch move and run after Edward through the woods.
Then, she defaults back to "Fuck my life" mode and slips into a depression for four fucking months. I find it kind of funny her depression was longer than their actual relationship. Heh. But this wasn't just any depression, it was some serious shit.
I always had nightmares now, every night. Not nightmares really, not in the plural, because it was always the same nightmare. You'd think I'd get bored after so many months, grow immune to it.
Or how about this:
Even my outsides looked different--my face sallow, white except for the purple circles the nightmares had left under my eyes. My eyes were dark enough against my pallid skin that--if I were beautiful and seen from a distance--I might even pass for a vampire now.
Once again I find myself asking the question: Where are her parents?! Why did Charlie let this go on for
FOUR months?! She should have been in counseling or something. But Meyer thinks she can just pacify readers by Renee sending a random e-mail here and there or Charlie just suggesting she seek help, only to be shot down by Bella. Fail. So much fail.
All that considered, that's not even the biggest problem I have with this book. Bella soon figures out she can conjure up hallucinations of Edward if she does something reckless or suicidal. This is where Jake comes into play. Bella uses Jake (like everyone else) to get what she wants by asking him to fix up two motorcycles she found and giving her riding lessons. She figures it will be the perfect thing to help her see more of Edward. I suppose she simply forgot how big of a klutz she is and once the bikes are fixed the lessons commence. The first time she gets on she falls off and Jake (the only one with common sense) thinks they should call it a day before she gets hurt. But Bella thinks this is BK and she can have it her way, and gets back on the bike.
Chick has gone batshit crazy and she promptly busts her ass. But she doesn't care because her mission was a success! She got to see and hear Edward! Her next brilliant idea is to throw herself off a cliff during high tide. The first time I read this I was secretly hoping she would drown, but the other two books already were published, so it was a hopeless wish. Oh and I almost forgot to mention the actual plot. LOL.
Funny how that happens when there isn't one, huh? LOL. The She-vamp, Victoria, is scoping out the area trying to get to Bella. But her part is VERY small in this book (like the plot), so we don't really need to talk about her. I suppose the wolf pack is worth mentioning: They're pretty much a bunch of wannabe werewolves that run around with their shirts off.
That's all you really need to know about them.
So, finally Alice shows up in chapter 18 because she thought Bella was trying to commit suicide (close enough Alice). And through a nice little exchange of "he said, she said" BS, Edward is off to Italy to kill himself. This causes Bella to go into "hero" mode and race to Italy and save Edward. I really don't care enough to give my thoughts on the race to Italy. That entire part was rushed and anti-climatic. There isn't even a fight scene. Instead here is a timeline courtesy of Reasoning with Vampires (Thanks for the link Cait and Jen!):
Anyway, they get back to good old Forks and Bella composes a vote on everyone's thoughts of her joining team undead. Edward is at a steady "no" along with Rosalie. But everyone else says, "Hell yes!" Like becoming a vampire is a party or something. Funny thing is when Bella asks Jasper he goes:
And she's all:
Hmm, yeah, that's not weird at all. Not the least bit creepy.
In the last few pages Edward and Jake have a little pissing contest and Edward proposes to Bella. The End. Yawn. Thank God it's over.
Now where's my fuckin' chocolate?
My Twilight Review can be found here.
***BONUS***Oh, yeah, bonus time. 'Cause what's a review without one?
Quick! If I were to light Edward on fire what would he become?
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Rating: really liked it
Ohhh yeah, I made a BookTube Video all about my scandalously unpopular twilight opinions (check out the video to see it...if you dare.)
Anyway, onwards to the review!
Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.
Really cringing at my younger self..And yet....I still loved itSo, I guess I'm cringing at my older self too. Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire
When Bella gets a paper cut during her birthday, she (in typical ridiculously unstable fashion) slices her arm open and stuffs it with glass. She becomes surrounded by seven thirsty vampires.
While she manages to make it out alive,
Edward is horrified by what his family has the potential to do.
(How is this a surprise?) (They're bloody vampires.) Edward does the sensible thing and
completely erases himself from her life. Bella does the sensible thing and
completely erases her mind. She throws herself into this weird fugue state for the first few chapters.
I honestly have no idea how to live without you.
Codependency for the win. Seriously, their relationship is so messed up when I think about it.
100 year old man, 18 year old girl. I mean
technically it isn't statuary but give Edward a few wrinkles and a stooped walk...and this book would be giving off a whole different vibe.
Looking back now, I don't understand how I was Team Edward for this book. Poor Jacob did all that work with healing Bella only to get
thrown aside as soon as a
little sparkle dances her way. I remember my sixteen year old self absolutely crying when Bella goes into the fugue state after Edward leaves and bawling again when he came back. I kept thinking, "This is TRUE love."
Woah, Nelly. At least I don't feel the same now...right?
The 2018 PopSugar Reading Challenge - An allegoryAudiobook CommentsThe girl voices (done by Ilyana Kadushin) were alright but her version of male voices were rather terrible. Picture a girl with the scratchy-cold voice. That's every guy in the book. Sigh.
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Rating: really liked it
This should suffice.
Rating: really liked it
I don't even know how to review this. It's really bad? But very fun to read? And I am not able to be objective of it at all because it holds so much nostalgia.
Rating: really liked it
I am in pain.
Make it stop.
🚨🚨🚨SPOILERS🚨🚨🚨
TW: attempted suicide, depressionThis book begins with Bella Swan being grumpy because of her eighteenth birthday. Why, you might ask? Well, that's because she's now one year older than Edward looks, and we all know her entire life revolves around her relationship with Edward. She is devastated. She pressures him to bite her and turn her into a vampire, but he refuses, because ~reasons.~ He doesn't want her to "lose her soul."
A few days later, Bella notices that there's something wrong with Edward. He's extremely moody all of a sudden (even more than he was before), and he's not talking to her. She decides to wait for
him to approach her, instead of confronting him about why he's being a jerk, because her life is based on this guy she met half a year ago.
Well, Edward breaks up with her. The Cullens move away, and Bella wallows in depression for four entire months. She decides to hang out with Jacob Black instead. He never seems to be wearing a shirt *war flashbacks* and he's oddly into Bella, but at least he's better than all the girls at school. Bella is not like other girls. She hangs out with boys and boys only.
Jacob was fine, I guess, until he became all moody for no reason. Bella thinks he joined a cult, but no, he's just a werewolf. *disappointment* Anyway, Bella discovers that she can hear Edward's voice whenever she risks her life. So she decides to do just that, and embarks on a bunch of suicidal ventures that she somehow survives, and she decides it's all worth it because of Edward's "perfect voice." *chokes* I can't believe I actually wrote that sentence. Where's the bleach?
For example, she buys a motorcycle and purposefully crashes it to hallucinate and hear him speak to her. I'm just... not going to say anything.
My velvet-voiced delusion had yelled at me for almost five minutes before I'd hit the brake too abruptly and launched myself into the tree.
Then one day, she jumps off a cliff.
This is not a drill.
Edward thinks she committed suicide, so he also decides to commit suicide and runs away to Italy to be killed by this super elite coven of vampires. Fortunately, he has a flair for drama, so Bella and Alice are able to catch him in time. His grand plan of suicide? Stepping out into the sun. Because, you know, he sparkles in the sunlight? And that... will totally get him killed...
Bella Swan: Bella needs some serious therapy.
Her worst problem is that she feels the need to change herself just to make Edward happy.
Maybe, when I was beautiful and strong, he wouldn't want distractions.
She had pretty much no life before Edward, but still, her life isn't over just because she's not dating him. However, she seems to think it is. She described the feeling continuously (by this, I mean every single page) as a hole in her chest. "The hole ached." "The hole was tearing apart." WHAT IS THIS HOLE? Maybe if she had a hobby besides Edward, she wouldn't be this empty. I can't believe she's such a famous protagonist. She's a
terrible role model and no one should ever strive to be like her.
His harsh rejection had punched a painful new hole in what was left of my chest.
As a person with trypophobia, I do not appreciate this.
Here are all the hole-y quotes I highlighted. There were probably more I forgot to take note of.
It was a crippling thing, this sensation that a huge hole had been punched through my chest, excising my most vital organs and leaving ragged, unhealed gashes around the edges that continued to throb and bleed despite the passage of time.
But what if this hole never got any better? If the raw edges never healed? If the damage was permanent and irreversible?
The worry was eating a hole in my stomach. Soon I would have matching punctures.
So, I thought the hole was in her chest. If you're going to have a giant opening in your organs, at least be consistent.
The pain twisted in familiar patterns through my body, the jagged hole ripping me open from the inside out.
I'd thought Jake had been healing the hole in me--or at least plugging it up, keeping it from hurting me so much. I'd been wrong. He'd just been carving out his own hole, so that I was now riddled through like Swiss cheese.
Bella has no life. She has no hobbies, no aspirations, no dreams, nothing that makes her happy besides Edward. I ship her with this plastic fork:
They're both white, they both have no purpose in life, they both break with hardly any force used. What a perfect couple. 🥰
Edward Cullen:
Edward was gone for most of this book, hooray!
First of all, you can buy glitter from Walmart for a dollar. Nobody's going to think you're a bloodsucking vampire just because you're sparkly.
Can I have a break from the descriptions of his skin? Marble, stone, granite. Honestly, is this guy a statue or something?
...what with his chest being hard and cold--and perfect--as an ice sculpture...
I am choking on my water.
I took his marble face between my hands and held it very tightly.
A deep frown carved creases into his marble forehead.
"Hi." I snuggled into his stone chest.
Concerned for you❤️
It was like curling into a cool stone, but a stone that was contoured comfortably to the shape of my body.
And his voice, too. Why is it velvet? Is it furry?
It was only when he was disapproving like this that I could hear the true memory of his voice--the velvet texture and the musical intonation that made up the most perfect of all voices.
Excuse me, I'll be in the bathroom, throwing up.
Consider this. Edward is immortal. He has time to do anything he wants. So naturally he chooses to relive high school over and over again and to start a relationship with a teenage girl. Maybe he's living vicariously through Carlisle or something, I don't know. He could cure cancer or Alzheimer's, but no,
high school. Ew.
Jacob Black:Put a shirt on, my smol friend.
So why do werewolves hate vampires? There's no clear reason. Apparently there's some really old feud, but where did that start and why? This had a lot of potential to be really intriguing. Unfortunately, it was not, and was just there to create an agonizingly stupid love triangle.
At least make the werewolves
interesting instead of just being like "Jacob exploded." "he exploded." Blah blah blah, bombs are going off, whatever. Who even cares anymore.
WORD COUNT: Note: Libby doesn't process when the number exceeds 100.
Hole: 79
Marble: 9
Stone: 32
Shoulder: 84
Hard: Over 100
Full: 98
Lip/lips: Over 100
Beautiful: 46
Perfect: 51
White: 42
Ice: Over 100
Vampire: 78
Skin: Over 100
Cold: 93
Velvet: 13
Voice: Over 100
Scent: 17
Eyes: Over 100
Stop with the suspicious forehead kisses. This isn't Lord of the Rings.
0.5 stars, I can't believe I just read that
My review of Twilight
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I can't wait to hate this book ❤️
Rating: really liked it
Have you ever been reading Twilight and been like, wow, I wish I could read this book except with no romance, a ton of suffering, a protagonist who’s heartbroken to the point of nonfunction for most of the book, way more of the characters you don’t care about, and also a lot of extraneous Native American stereotyping?
Because if so, Stephenie Meyer wrote this book for you.
You have to hand it to Steph for a writing a smash hit book and then being like I wonder what would happen if I took all the good fun stuff out of this and then added a bunch of bad stuff. Kind of a baller move. Especially since it worked.
Anyway. I have a soft spot for these books a mile wide due to a little something called “I was thirteen when Edward Cullen changed my life forever,” and even I had a hard time getting through this one.
This series is not well-written and the characters are not likable and the romance is insta-lovey AT BEST. All they have going for them is being fun.
Hopefully Stephenie Meyer got the memo in time for my reread of Eclipse.
Bottom line: The best part of this whole book is when like 5 whole months are just blank pages.
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pre-reviewturns out the only thing i needed to become team jacob was 9 years and the harsh hit of reality.
review to come / 2 stars
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currently-reading updateseven when i was 13 i knew this book was...not good.
what better time to reread it than in the midst of a reading slump?
Rating: really liked it
Keep in mind that though this review is about to wheel off into an angry rant, this book is good. The series is addictive. And as I said previously about Stephanie Meyer, if you want to cease brain function for a few hours, she's your girl.
The beginning is slow, the middle is gold, the end is lacking. The blank pages to represent months passed in zombie-depression, great idea.
Now, my problem. My problem is not so much with the story as it is perhaps with the idea behind the story and thus, the author herself.
It all starts with Romeo and Juliet. Stupid kids. Yes, yes, the great tragedy of love. Please note the word tragedy came before the word love. Because without the tragedy there would be no story. What would the story be otherwise? I'm not going to presume to rewrite Shakespeare (at least not for the hypothetical purposes of illustrating a point in this review).
I will say, that I find it sad and unfortunate that Meyers insists on her characters not only admiring Romeo and Juliet (not the play, but the hormone-addled teenagers who committed suicide rather than take a minute to think it through), but specifically referencing the star-crossed lovers in near direct comparison to her protagonist and the lover-vamp. (Her main character also can be caught reading Jane Austen, but more on that later).
My point? Impossible love is a great story. No doubt. And Meyer's characters, the human girl and the vampire (um, Buffy and Angel anyone?) are certainly in an impossible situation. Great, perfect, wonderful.
The difficulty? No where to go. That's what makes Romeo and Juliet a tragedy. That's why Buffy and Angel never got back together. What choices has she left us? Either the human becomes a vampire or the vampire (in what would be a HUGE cheat) becomes human again. So? Make the human a vamp, right? Problem solved. Well, despite the flippancy with which so many of Meyer's characters approach this option, to do so would be a tragedy of sorts. Because in effect, it would be suicide, a life ended to be with the man she loves so senselessly that it makes you wonder how she could admire Jane Austen at all.
Yes, Jane Austen writes about love, but take a look at "Sense and Sensibility". Jane Austen recognizes that love is more complex than the simple lust of it (while Romeo and Juliet barely get a chance to blink before they marry, screw and die-much like the carrion flies Romeo references. . .) Strength of character, not the sweaty passion, conquers all. Clear conscience and unerring moral fortitude conquers class-differences, social stigmas and familial disapproval. And so, they all get to live happily ever after.
This is your dilemma Stephanie Meyers. You've laid the groundwork, not for a Jane Austen like happy-ending despite the odds, but a Shakespearian tragedy that will not only leave the audience sobbing, but foaming mad. Frankly, the readers of today don't want a tragedy (for the most part), they get that enough every day. They want the happy ending. I want the happy ending and what would that be in this situation?
As far as I can see there is no way to have a true happy ending. Either you make a living girl a vampire. Or you pull out the deus ex machina and make the vampire a human. Neither option will be unsullied enough to be fully satisfactory.
Personally, I would rather see the girl become a vampire, though I wish the character would take it a little more seriously than she has. Because my sense of fairness would be violated if the vamp miraculously becomes a human. But no matter how it ends, I fear I will be disappointed, as the endings of both books have been so thoroughly let-downs I cannot imagine the author has it in her mind to tack a new course at this point.
How do I have the audacity to be so critical? Have I written a New York Times Bestseller? Two, three?
Not yet.
Rating: really liked it
When she was 12 me and my daughter Georgia went to see Twilight. After the movie I asked her what she thought.
"THAT WAS THE BEST MOVIE EVER" she said. And she went to see it three more times, with people other than me.
So she bought the book and read it in about four hours. I asked her what she thought.
"THAT WAS THE BEST BOOK EVER" she said.
Then we got the dvd of the movie and she watched it again.
"THAT WAS THE WORST MOVIE EVER" she said. I was surprised but she explained - "Bella is stupid, Edward is stupid, nothing looks right, they miss out all the important stuff, it's so bad, it's so so so bad"
Then she read all the other Twilight books in like four hours.
"NEW MOON IS THE WORST BOOK EVER FOR 200 PAGES AND THEN IT'S THE BEST BOOK EVER" she said. By now she was 13.
A week ago she said
"NEW MOON IS COMING OUT SOON, I'M SO EXCITED, I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT, CAN WE GO ON THE VERY FIRST DAY PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE"
and I said "But you think Twilight The Movie is stupid".
"Yes, it is stupid" she said "and I can't WAIT to see how bad New Moon is!"
Critics.
***
ps : Now (aged 13) she's going to see the new Robert Pattinson movie Remember Me. I assume that's because he's so
hideous and such a
bad actor
Rating: really liked it
This is the worst. Spoil alert: Literally nothing happens.
Rating: really liked it
New Moon (Twilight, #2), Stephenie Meyer New Moon is a romantic fantasy novel by author Stephenie Meyer, and is the second novel in the Twilight series.
The novel continues the story of Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen's relationship.
When Edward leaves Bella after his brother attacks her, she is left heartbroken and depressed for months until Jacob Black becomes her best friend and helps her fight her pain.
However, her life twists once more when Jacob's nature reveals itself and Edward's sister decides to visit.
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیست و یکم ماه سپتامبر سال 2009میلادی
عنوان: ماه نو: نویسنده: استفنی مه یر؛ مترجم: ایرج مثال آذر؛ نشر کرج، در دانش بهمن؛ سال1387، در583ص؛ چاپ دوم تا چهارم سال 1388؛ چاپ پنجم سال1389؛ شابک9789641740643؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان ایالات متحده آمریکا - سده 21م
عنوان: ماه نو: نویسنده: استفنی مه یر؛ مترجم: فرشید قهرمانی؛ قزوین، سایه گستر، سال1388، در438ص؛ شابک9789645023278؛
عنوان: ماه نو: نویسنده: استفنی مه یر؛ مترجم: فاطمه علیپور؛ تهران، عقیل، سال1389، در507ص؛ بدون شابک
عنوان: ماه نو: نویسنده: استفنی مه یر؛ مترجم: الهام دژکام؛ تهران، چکاوک، پگاه، 1393، در576ص؛ با جلد سخت، شابک9789648957198؛
کتاب «ماه نو»؛ در ادامه ی کتاب «شفق»؛ یا همان «گرگ و میش»، بنوشته ی بانو «استفنی مه یر» است؛ عشق و هراس، در کنار یکدیگر؛ وجود هر یک، مستلزم وجود آن دیگری است؛ این داستان، با جشن زادروز هیجده سالگی «بلا سوان» آغاز میشود؛ «بلا»، انگشت خود را میبرد؛ آن رویداد موجب برانگیخته شدن «جاسپر»، برادر «ادوارد» میگردد؛ «ادوارد» آشفته حال، «بلا» را ترک میگوید؛ «بلا» افسرده میشود؛ اما پس از آشنایی بیشتر با «جیکوب بلک»، حالش بهتر میشود؛ «بلا» درمییابد «جیکوب»، یک گرگینه است؛ زمانی که «جیکوب» برای شکار «ویکتوریا» (جفت «جیمز» که برای انتقام برگشته) رفته، «بلا» از روی صخره، به درون آب میپرد؛ از سوی دیگر، «آلیس» خواهر «ادوارد»، کار «بلا» را میبیند، و آن را خودکشی میپندارد؛ خبر به گوش «ادوارد» میرسد، و او تصمیم میگیرد، برای خودکشی، نزد خانواده ی «ولتوری» (خانواده سلطنتی خون آشامها) برود؛ در آنجا «بلا»، او را پیش از آنکه دچار دردسر شود، نجات میدهد، ولی «بلا» باید در آینده ای نزدیک، خونآشام شود؛ وگرنه با «ولتوریها» روبرو خواهد شد...؛
تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 28/09/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 26/071400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی
Rating: really liked it
"These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume." For a book about heartbreak.. it oddly makes you feel warm and fuzzy.
This is hands down the best book in the series, despite the lack of Edward (in my opinion). I still wish Stephenie Meyer would someday write this one from Edward's perspective. I need to know what was going through his mind, how was he coping, what was he doing. So many possibilities😩
Rating: really liked it
You know its true love when its between a 100+ year old virgin pedophile and a 18yr old child with one brain cell😌
She is so bad at everything, like she cant even put herself in danger properly
Rating: really liked it
please, this book would have been 20 pages long at best if this girl went to therapy
Rating: really liked it
I didn’t love this one as much or the movie either. Everyone was a dick, but I loved Jacob and it broke my heart at the unnecessary pain and using of people. I mostly skimmed it again. I mostly do the same for the movie.
October... November..... December... January
It was Jacob himself. Jacob was simply a perpetually happy person, and he carried that happiness with him like an aura, sharing it with whoever was near him. Like an earthbound sun, whenever someone was within his gravitational pull, Jacob warmed them. It was natural, a part of who he was. No wonder I was so eager to see him.
Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾
BLOG: https://melissa413readsalot.blogspot....
Rating: really liked it
oh, hai, just me here, reading
new moon on my nook simple touch...
this
twilight craze... the books are not as bad as the haters say they are, but they are also nowhere near as good as lovers of this series believe. this installment was just kind of... bland. despite my reading it on the fine e-ink technology of the new nook.
she did one thing right - one wonderful thing. i assume it is too late to actually "spoil" anything in the bellaverse, so i am just going to barrel ahead - but when edward leaves bella in the woods. that moment - when she just loses her mind and her desolation and her emptiness and her self-destructive impulses shoot straight to the surface. it was pretty well-done. because let's face it, we have all been left behind by someone we are still in love with. even me. wonderful, wonderful me.
and having recently rewatched my favorite movie,
head-on, i have to point out the best scene in it, and how it mirrors this book. this is a spoiler for
head on. which you should all watch. and be gutted. (view spoiler)
[so that scene where sibel is in instanbul and she gets harassed outside the bar by those four guys? and she just attacks them - that headlong run into destruction because you don't want to have to kill yourself, but you are not opposed to someone else doing it for you. and each time she gets up after being beaten down you can tell she is happier and happier with that gleam of defiance because she feels like she deserves this punishment, and she is hoping it will end in her own obliteration so she canget some peace from her misery. that is the best part in any movie anywhere, and a feeling very close to my heart. of being unmoored and not caring what happens to the physical body because the emotional part is dead. (hide spoiler)] that is the kind of heartbreak bella has here and lord, do i get that impulse. and bella keeps it up the whole book - testing the boundaries of her own mortality to get that rush of maybe-edward each time she is close to death. and that's pretty ballsy for teen fiction.
but i don't know how many near-death experiences one girl has to have in order to become interesting. this book was fine, but mostly just one-note. she misses edward and likes but doesn't like-like jacob. for nearly four hundred pages. but my, how slender four hundred pages can be on the new nook!
so - yeah - i am reading on a freaking robot. i was forced to borrow one from work so that i could get on board with the emerging technology. did i do all right, john petrie?? are you proud of my commitment to excellence?? do you see i read a whole book on a machine?? a book that i read for the express purpose of getting to
eclipse so i can be a completist in my reading books that are "based" on
wuthering heights quest?? and no one looking at me knew what i was reading. the freedom from shame was well worth it...
nook. lightweight. tiny. capacious. good for hiding your books from nosy subway riders. may contain traces of
new moon...
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