So…I did it.
I fought the urge, the talk, the publicity….I really did try. But I caved.
No..I am not talking about wearing a mankini like John Mayer or anything illegal. I didn’t buy anything out of the ordinary (unless you count the new bra..which pained me to purchase) or strange..or even really noteworthy.
I bought the book Twilight.
I did.
I have fought hard to not buy into the Edward vampire love thing that is going on in these books. I haven’t seen the movie (which I have heard is a good thing), I know nothing of the story, I only know that my friends (all in their late 20′s and early 30′s) love these books.
Why? Why did I give in?
It is a fair question. I have no idea.
I really was just like…I need something new to read. I am feeling the void of television these days and movies are all regurgitated versions of an older movie.
There is no more originality. That is why I was scared of Twilight. Look I love Harry Potter…all of the books. I have read pretty much all of what Anne Rice could bring us. So I am afraid that Stephanie Meyer is only going to be taking some of Anne, some of JK, and mixing it all together in a teenage love plot….and scariest of all…I am probably going to like it.
Liking it only means having to further complicate my life by then reading New Moon and whatever comes after that in the series of books.
I start reading with a excited hesitation.
I went to two places to even buy the book because I hate when publishers take a movie still or movie poster and make that the cover of a book. The original cover looked nothing like that..so why change it? So I sought out the original cover and found it…and bought it.
I am two pages in…nothing has happened yet. I almost hope for a slow night at the bar I work at so I can read a little bit.
See it is happening already. Ugh..wanting to read. Good lord.
What next? Wanting to eat vegetables, taking my vitamin every morning, working out? I won’t let this reading thing make me responsible or well rounded. I promise.
-Kelly