I am so totally in love with the Twilight Series.  And I am not at all ashamed that it is a Young Adult novel.  Technically I am still a young adult.  I am fascinated by the story and the inherent problems that the characters face–forget about the reality of vampires and werewolves.  I have always been captivated by a good vampire novel.  Loved Draculaand Salem’s Lot.  I had never paid any attention to this series until I heard all the hype about the forth book and how the publisher was printing 3.5 million copies as a first run.  Really.  There must be something to this. 

I loved the first book.  I finished the 2nd one in two days and I have to say I didn’t like it as much as I liked the first–I so totally missed Edward.  Is it horrible that I am in love with a seventeen-year-0ld fictional vampire?  Anyway. 

I have now just started the third book and I cannot wait to find out what happens.  It is a cheesy love story with all the teenage angst that I miss from high school.  I can’t get enough of it.  I would read 24/7 if I didn’t have children and a husband to take care of.  If only I was sixteen, then I could spend the rest of my summer break reading this book. 

These books are not great literature.  But the characters and the story has spoken to the little girl who still resides in my subconscious and if I was teaching high school still, I would be fighting to teach this series.  What a great moral dilemma on so many levels for so many characters. 

I am off to try and coax my children to sleep (hello benadryl) so that I can hurry up and so the dishes and get some reading done, before hubby gets home and chastises me for reading instead of doing laundry or something else housewifely.