Twilight by Stephanie Meyer 481 pages
I am trying to finish Twilight, tomorrow evening for class.
Am I missing something? I am on page 323 and I still don't get what the big deal is.
Ok I'll admit I am not a teen horror or adult horror fan. I asked one of the many teenager's at my branch who read Twilight, twice, what was the big deal? She explained to me that it's a modern day Romeo and Juliet, a beautiful and romantic love story. Wow I missed that, maybe I'm just too jaded.
I also listened to the Twilight soundtrack, and I listen to the song, Edward wrote for Bella. Cute. I did not see the movie, and based on the clips I watched, nor do I plan to.
Hopefully next week's readings will be better.
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Hey you can totally blame last semester's class for making ya'll read Twilight. Sorry about that. But I think we had a pretty good conversation about it in class.
But again, I think it's honestly not important for you to like all of the books we read in class--you may very well not. It's more important for you to have that conversation that you had with the teen in the library, to say "I didn't get it." They probably loved your honesty, and will trust you when they want another book.
Different people get different experiences from what they read/see/watch. I think one of my favorite parts about being a librarian (on the front lines) was making that connection: understanding what hooks a particular reader and then finding the experience they're looking for in a library book/movie/music/etc.
Seriously, you might hate everything else we read this semester, but I promise you they are either books that teens are reading in NYC or they're books that teens will want to know about.
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