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Teen Book Blog
Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight Series Rides on the Crest of the Movie Release! From a realistic dream back in the summer of 2003 - about a young woman talking to a handsome young man who turns out to be a vampire – to a box-office hit over the winter of 2008 – this young and attractive housewife from a small town outside Phoenix, Arizona – has propelled herself further into the world of fantasy fiction than any other author since J K Rowling! Born on 24th December 1973 to a middle-class Mormon family in Hartford, Connecticut, brought up in Scottsdale, Arizona where she went to High School, followed by Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, Meyer’s writing exhibits what Time magazine calls ‘fine moral hygiene’, a reference to Mormon-taught abstinence from alcohol, caffeine, cocaine and other habit-forming drugs. The same piece describes the books as being ‘an alternative to the hook-up scene. Gossip Girls for good girls. There’s no drinking or smoking in Twilight and Bella and Edward do little more than kiss’. Time goes on to add that ‘what makes Meyer’s books so distinctive is that they’re about the erotics of abstinence. Their tension comes from prolonged, superhuman acts of self-restraint.’ ‘It’s never quite clear’, the Time piece concludes, ‘whether Edward wants to sleep with Bella or rip her throat out or both, but he wants something and he wants it bad, and you feel it the more because he never gets it. That’s the power of the Twilight books: They’re absolutely squeaky, geeky clean on the surface but right below it, they’re absolutely, deliciously filthy’. The first of the series, Twilight, was written over a three-month period - and finally (after being rescued from the slush-pile) found an intrigued and delighted publisher in 2005! It was followed by New Moon (2006), Eclipse (2007) and Breaking Dawn (2008) – the final novel, we are told, to be written from Bella Swan’s perspective! And then of course there is Twilight: The Complete illustrated Movie Companion and Twilight: The Official Guide due out in early 2009. It’s also nice to see that Meyer, herself an avid reader, acknowledges such classics as Anne of Green Gables and Jane Eyre as books that gave her inspiration! Oh, and Bella Swan - and this scribe - happen to share a common birthday – September 13th! And to find all the books in the Twilight Series you need look no further! Link to Twilight Series of Books at Amazon! +++
Christmas will soon be upon us - and so will The Tales of Beedle the Bard Good old J K Rowling,! You can criticise her style and syntax if you dare (and the chances are that an evil wizard won't appear beside your bed in the small hours and turn you an ugly toad - even if you do!) but you have to admit that this fine lady has done more to popularise the joys of reading again in the last few years than anyone else we know - and that's really saying something! So don't forget that J K Rowling is about to hit the Christmas Market come Thursday 4th December with a very special tome called The Tales of Beedle the Bard ! Drawing from the last book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Tales of Beedle the Bard was first published to much fanfare as a (very) limited edition of just seven copies - lovingly handwritten and illustrated by J K Rowling herself, before being auctioned off for charity: with one of them fetching £1,950,000.00 thanks to the generosity of good 'ol Amazon! The Tales of Beedle the Bard comes out in Hardback from Bloomsbury - all 128 pages of it - at a List price of £5.99 - and at £3.49 from Amazon. There is also a very special Hardcover Collector's edition - offered exclusively by Amazon for £50.00 (see box at the right above for more details). And the proceeds of this edition will be going to charity too - so make sure you do your stuff and buy yourself a copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard! Right here on this page if you would please (once we have the link set up!), then we get a commission that goes to a reading charity too! |
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