Ok, I know I will offend all you die-hard Twilight fans out there, but I just finished my "sentence" of reading New Moon and that was hands-down the worst book I've ever read! Stephenie Meyer is a CRAPPY writer. Her writing lacks depth, she uses trite metaphors and Bella's utterly undying love for Edward is just cheesy and unbelievable. I give this one NO stars and a big, fat BLAH! Not to mention she uses up 500 pages to tell you what could have been told in 200 (but fills the space with lots of junior high-esque descriptions of Bella's "hole" and how she "can't breathe" and all her clairvoyant thoughts). Just bad, bad writing. I do not understand the hype over this whole Twilight series, and I'm afraid I can't waste another precious minute of my already insufficient reading time slogging through the rest of the books. Similar to the Harry Potter hysteria, I only read the first two books, didn't get the hype and didn't waste my time reading the others. I think Meyer was just damn lucky. Must have been a LOT of bored teenagers out there when she hit a chord with her vampire love story and she's having her 15 minutes of fame. But it saddens me that our young people are delving into this substandard "literature". Hopefully they will still find time to read some of the great books and this whole Twilight fad will die down. I'm glad to see them read, but this stuff is really crap.
On another note, I am only up to ten books so far this year! I am definitely spending too much time on the icky stuff. Our book club chose to read classics this year and some of them have been duds. I'm sorry to say (or not!) that I did not read "Tale of Two Cities" for this week's book club (using the excuse that Arlie has a musical that night and I would not be able to attend the discussion). Hayley is currently reading it for English class and hates it. I've actually never read it but have no desire to. I'm on to another book, hopefully a little bit mindless to entertain my mind after being catatonic during "New Moon"!!!
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Tuesday
So, it's Tuesday. Nothing too exciting about that. I get to go be "recess lady" at the kids' school. Oh joy - better because it's RAINING here like crazy so that should make for a pleasant time enjoyed by all.
We watched two movies this weekend - I am Legend, which was SO stupid (some good special effects, but really lame storyline), and 27 Dresses, which was cute but so predictable (oh, which guy will she end up with?). Neither really worth two hours of my valuable time!
I am reading "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer (weird she puts an "e" in there where most people put an "a"). Anyway, she's this Mormon housewife w/ three kids who says the idea for this book came to her in a dream. Now she's written three in the series, plus another "adult" book and her fourth series book comes out in August. These books are all the rage amongst the teen set here in the Seattle area, so I decided to find out what it's all about. I'm only on chapter 2 but so far the writing is just ok. After reading these books, Hayley said I should write a book. Yeah, tell me about it. That's the frustrating part - reading a book and saying "I could write this - or better!". But there are so many great authors out there, too. Amazing books the likes of which I could never imagine writing. And where to start anyway? I have so many stories to tell.
We have one more regular season baseball game for Harrison (tonight, which will probably be rained out!) and then playoffs this weekend (which I'm going to miss because I'll be in Idaho at Justine's graduation). For Arlie, we are already in playoffs, with our next game tomorrow. If we lose that one, I think we play one more and then we're done. I'm ready for it all to be over! But now Jeff's just started his adult co-ed recreational team, so that's a game every Monday night for the next 8 weeks or so.
Ok, I'm going to go drink my green tea now. I actually decided NOT to go to Starbucks this morning on my way back from an appt. but came home, ate my high-fiber cereal and now my green tea! And I worked out before 8 a.m. Whew. All this healthy shit really takes a lot out of you. I should have a cupcake to get over it.
We watched two movies this weekend - I am Legend, which was SO stupid (some good special effects, but really lame storyline), and 27 Dresses, which was cute but so predictable (oh, which guy will she end up with?). Neither really worth two hours of my valuable time!
I am reading "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer (weird she puts an "e" in there where most people put an "a"). Anyway, she's this Mormon housewife w/ three kids who says the idea for this book came to her in a dream. Now she's written three in the series, plus another "adult" book and her fourth series book comes out in August. These books are all the rage amongst the teen set here in the Seattle area, so I decided to find out what it's all about. I'm only on chapter 2 but so far the writing is just ok. After reading these books, Hayley said I should write a book. Yeah, tell me about it. That's the frustrating part - reading a book and saying "I could write this - or better!". But there are so many great authors out there, too. Amazing books the likes of which I could never imagine writing. And where to start anyway? I have so many stories to tell.
We have one more regular season baseball game for Harrison (tonight, which will probably be rained out!) and then playoffs this weekend (which I'm going to miss because I'll be in Idaho at Justine's graduation). For Arlie, we are already in playoffs, with our next game tomorrow. If we lose that one, I think we play one more and then we're done. I'm ready for it all to be over! But now Jeff's just started his adult co-ed recreational team, so that's a game every Monday night for the next 8 weeks or so.
Ok, I'm going to go drink my green tea now. I actually decided NOT to go to Starbucks this morning on my way back from an appt. but came home, ate my high-fiber cereal and now my green tea! And I worked out before 8 a.m. Whew. All this healthy shit really takes a lot out of you. I should have a cupcake to get over it.
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