#4

So far, my overall opinion of Eclipse is that there is more action than Twilight or New Moon. As usual, Bella keeps getting herself in more trouble and it's becoming more serious. Another thing that is becoming more serious is Bella and Edward's relationship. Bella is determined to become a vampire soon, so she can be with Edward forever. Part of the deal was that she had to wait until she graduated high school, but now that that has happened, Edward has put a new twist on it. He will not change her into a vampire until she marries him. Bella will marry him, but she doesn't want to right now. She doesn't want to marry right out of high school, which I agree. Even though she would become a vampire, I think it would be weird to get married that young. Edward and Bella are now engaged, but while she is trying to figure out how to sneak off to Vegas with him to get married, there is trouble with vampires. For once, Bella made connections among certain events that involved vampires. Now all these newborn vampires, most likely made by Victoria, have come to Bella's house to get her scent, and are now after her. I was really surprised when the Cullens agreed to join forces with the werewolves from La Push and try to fight off these dangerous newborns. Although, it is most likely because Jacob is also in love with Bella, and both Edward and Jacob want her to be safe. This is definetly an action-filled book, with the action getting more and more intense. I'm starting to wonder if Bella will ever become a vampire, since she's been talking about becoming one almost the whole book, and she hasn't really made much progress towards getting changed by either Edward or Carlisle.

#3

New Moon was so amazing that I have already finished it! Although compared to Twilight it's really not that great. Through the middle, Edward and the other members of the Cullen family have left, and the only thing that really reminds you of them is that Bella can't let go of Edward. Towards the end though, things start getting better and it got hard to put it down. First Alice comes back. Alice and Bella take a trip to Italy to save Edward from getting himself killed by the Volturi. Edward wants to get himself killed, because Rosalie had told him that Bella had gone cliffdiving and she thought Bella was trying to commit suicide, so Edward didn't want to live without Bella. That's pretty much the main action of the last part of the book. I have a good start on Eclipse now, and from what I've read so far, it is definetly better than New Moon, but still, nothing beats Twilight.

#2

One thing I found interesting about what I have recently read in New Moon is that Bella is still emotionally attached to Edward even though she hangs out with Jacob almost every day and is starting to like him more. When Jacob and Bella hang out they are fixing up these two motor bikes that eventually lead to some trouble. But anyways, I find it kind of entertaining that Bella thinks she is a big rebel for using these bikes without Charlie knowing, but really, she is not that big of a rebel. After she figures out that Jacob is a werewolf, I thought that it was strange that she is so attracted to these guys that are not normal at all since Edward is a vampire and now Jacob is a werewolf. It is also weird that she is attracted to these kind of guys since she has so many accidents and these types of guys aren't helping her with that at all. In the part where she sees Laurent again and he tells her about Victoria, it was at first confusing and then intense because you didn't know if Victoria was going to come hunt down Bella at Charlie's house. It is actually still kind of intense because Jacob tells Bella that Victoria keeps coming and going and Bella tells him that Victoria is looking to kill her. There was so so much that happened in the book lately that it is hard to remember everything, and it is amazing, but definetly not as amazing as Twilight.

#1

I am reading New Moon by Stephanie Meyer because I read Twilight and loved it and I have already started the book and I can't wait to finish it, even though I heard it isn't nearly as good as Twilight.

Post #7

Last week I picked up New Moon by Stephanie Meyer again. There were some major events that occurred during the last set of pages I read. While Bella was forced to celebrate her birthday at the Cullen’s house, she got injured and being around a family of vampires, it wasn’t the best situation. Luckily Edward’s “father” Carlisle is a doctor and can control his thirst for blood and gave Bella stitches. After that though, Bella and Edward started going downhill. Edward started acting really weird at school and not only that but Alice and Jasper, Edwards “siblings” had left to go to Denali, where another family of unique vampires similar to them lives. Finally one night Edward comes over and takes Bella for a walk in the woods. During their walk, he suddenly announces that they are leaving. Bella figures out that the whole family is leaving. Edward tells her that everyone has left already and he only stayed behind to say goodbye to her. But suddenly Edward ran off forever and left Bella alone in the dark woods where she fell asleep, but then woke up to someone shouting her name. Bella had forgotten about her father, Charlie, who had sent the men into the woods to look for her. Bella is now remembering Edward’s words “it’ll be like I never existed” because she doesn’t want to forget him, but he even took the pictures she had of him out of her scrapbook.
This book is getting better and better all the time, and it was hard to put it down each time I picked it up. There is something about the way Stephanie Meyer writes, but it really grabs you and makes it hard to stop!

Post #6

Since last week’s post I read another book from The Clique series by Lisi Harrison. It was another book from the summer collection, but this time it was about Dylan’s summer. Dylan’s mom is a famous talk show host and for the summer they went to Hawaii so she could cover a huge tennis tournament. While Dylan is there, she meets a guy who she really likes, but he only likes tennis players. Dylan has some major self-esteem issues and thinks she is really fat. Another person she meets there is a tennis superstar, Svetlana. She was amazed to see her because Svetlana has really bad anger management and had just finished some treatment for it. While she is there, Dylan enlists Svetlana to teach her how to play tennis. They start to learn a lot about each other and for a short time they become friends. Dylan even gets her curly hair super straightened so it looks just like Svetlana’s. Although later on Svetlana found out that Dylan was just using her to get the tennis skills she needed to impress this guy. Apparently Svetlana liked him too, because they got in a huge fight about it, which I thought was incredibly stupid. In the end, Svetlana and Dylan didn’t end on a good note because Svetlana made Dylan sign a contract saying she wouldn’t talk about anything personal Svetlana said over the summer. Overall I thought this book was better than most of the books, but I am interested in tennis. I enjoyed when they mentioned the actual tennis stars that are famous today, because I knew who they were talking about.

Post #5

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This week I read a long blog post by the Jonas Brothers. It was recapping their past week, which was spent in Europe promoting their new album. They really emphasized in this post how much the fans support and encourage them. At their first stop in Milan, Italy they said there were 20,000 people waiting for them and other people lining the streets. They said they weren’t expecting that big of a response, which makes it even more crazy! The insanity didn’t stop there, though. In Madrid, Spain, they sang in a major shopping area because their concert there this summer had been canceled. They said the crowd was huge and it sounds really crazy because it said they had to shut it down twice to call in more security and then they ended up having to leave because of how crazy it got. As much as I am happy for them that they have international support, it is kind of sad that they couldn’t even stay because the crowd was so overwhelming. That reminded me of when their new album “A Little Bit Longer” came out this summer and when they were in New York to buy it at midnight, times square shut down and they could only go in, buy the CD, then leave because the crowd was actually dangerous. Through the rest of the Jonas Brothers’ trip to Europe they went to Germany, London and Paris and they said that there the fans followed them everywhere and were waiting outside every TV show and radio station. At the end of their blog post they say, “To all the fans…Thanks for being so amazing. To our fans in the US that have been there from the beginning. To the fans in Europe that encouraged us this week. To the fans we still need to meet…WE LOVE YOU.” I loved reading this part because they seem like very sweet guys and they love their fans so much and try their hardest to meet as many fans as possible. Hopefully I’ll get the chance to meet them someday!