{"id":10,"date":"2008-02-18T23:42:54","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T07:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2010-06-24T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T23:13:00","slug":"twilight-et-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/twilight-et-al\/","title":{"rendered":"Twilight, et al"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I read the Twilight books by Stephanie Meyer.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, all three.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a huge fan of vampire books.  I suspect I overdosed on the Anne Rice vampire books in high school, and ever since then have not been particularly interested.  Also, I&#8217;m sorry, but a happily ever after does not, to me, usually entail the hero having to kill the heroine in order to be with her forever.  I don&#8217;t find vampires to be particularly romantic or inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>Give me a post-apocalypse any day.<\/p>\n<p>So when I tell you that I LOVED the Twilight books, you know where I am coming from.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t strike me as traditional vampires &#8211; in fact, Edward and his family only drink the blood of animals, and can go outside in sunlight.  They don&#8217;t sleep in coffins &#8211; they don&#8217;t sleep at all.<\/p>\n<p>So, hey, I like some vampires. Mark your calendars.<\/p>\n<p>I really like the haunting writing &#8211; it sucks you in and before you know it, you&#8217;ve read three five hundred page books in two days.  And most importantly, Stephanie Meyer has written, for her first adult novel (the Twilight books are YA), a sci-fi story based on the alien body-snatcher idea.<\/p>\n<p>That kind of falls into a perfect category for me &#8211; kinda post-apocalyptic with zombies, kinda. I&#8217;ll be there.<\/p>\n<p>Also, for the Twilight movie, they totally cast the guy who played Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter movies as Edward, and that is pretty perfect casting, if you ask me.<\/p>\n<p>ANYWAY, they were good books, and you should read them, even if you have a serious case of vampire ennui like I do.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/twilight-et-al\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I read the Twilight books by Stephanie Meyer. Yes, all three. I&#8217;m not a huge fan of vampire books. I suspect I overdosed on the Anne Rice vampire books in high school, and ever since then have not been particularly interested. Also, I&#8217;m sorry, but a happily ever after does not, to me, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/twilight-et-al\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Twilight, et al&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[259,32,31],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booksreading","category-daily","tag-reviews","tag-twilight","tag-vampires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}