Off The Shelf

Eclipse Stephenie Meyer 629 pages With ice in my heart, I watched him prepare to defend me. His intense concentration betrayed no hint of doubt, though he was outnumbered. I knew that we could expect no help - at this moment, his family was fighting for their lives just as surely as he was for ours. Eclipse has to be my favorite so far in The Twilight Saga. This novel dealt mostly with the battle within Bella herself, allowing the reader inside her decisions, actions, and thoughts. Meyer has a signature way of capturing her reader, and holding them hostage within the pages of the book for the time it takes them to read it, as well as after they turn the final page... The way I judge the greatness of a book though, is by how long it takes to come back to reality. My only complaint of this book is again the fact that its highly climatic scene did not come until almost the very end, therefore, the scene was over in just a few pages or so. Stephenie Meyer has again created a bo...

New Moon Stephenie Meyer 563 pages I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was like there had never been a hole in my chest. I was perfect - not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place. Not even an hour ago, I flipped the last page in the second book of The Twilight Saga. This book did take me longer to read than the first not just because it was approximately 100 more pages, but because I was missing Edward. Yes, he does leave in this book, and in that time, Bella is in a state of miserable depression. Meyer writes so well, her analogies between a "new moon" and the characters' feelings in the book are in-depth as well as puzzling, in a good way of course. Her characters and their relationships are so carefully crafted, the ro...

Twilight Stephanie Meyer 498 pages I guess I am a bit behind the ball when it comes to reading the latest teen-novel sensation The Twilight Saga . It was the same thing with Harry Potter for me; not reading and falling in love with the entire series until three years ago. I am not really a fantasy kind of person, (I was totally shocked to walk into Barnes and Noble and see an entire section dedicated to "Paranormal Teen Romance"), but I got kind of tired of friends asking me whether I was Team Jacob or Team Edward. I would usually answer, but only to myself of course with; "Is Team Weasley okay?" or "What about Team Peeta?" So I gave in, and started the 498 page novel on Friday night; only putting it down at midnight and already on page 137. I finished it this morning (probably my fastest reading experience yet), and ran to the library as soon as it opened to check out New Moon , the second book in the series. Overall, it totally surpassed my...

With a friend who has also read the book, we watched the movie version of the book My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult on Friday. The movie was released in 2009, and some of the cast list is as follows: Anna Fitzgerald - Abigail Breslin Sara Fitzgerald - Cameron Diaz Kate Fitzgerald - Sofia Vassilieva Taylor Ambrose - Thomas Dekker Campbell Alexander - Alec Baldwin If I had not read the book, I would have liked this movie. The basic plotline was the same, but several of the key characters from the book were left out such as Julia Romano. Also, Kate, Anna, and Jesse looked too young when compared to how I pictured them. Several of the events were rushed and disjointed and the ending of the movie was also completely different than the book. On the positive side, this movie was full of emotion. Some parts were very sad, and made me want to cry. While others, sparked laughter. Again, this movie was great by itself, but when compared with the book, it did not reach my expe...