Twilight: Why The Hate?
Up until a year ago, I was fairly oblivious to the cash cow that is Twilight, a young adult book series about a vampire that falls in love with a teenage girl. I had heard of the books, knew that they...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
In order not to be repetitive and strive for a little bit of objectivity, I refused to read my review for New Moon, the second installment of the Twilight series. I walked in with an open mind and...
View ArticleTwilight – What The Hell?
I have a confession to make, dear reader: I finished reading the first book of the Twilight series last night. As in, I didn’t put it down until gone four in the morning. I was persuaded (read: bugged...
View ArticleBook Review: The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephanie Meyer
From the epic worldwide phenomenon that is the Twilight series, comes a novella called The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. The story focuses on life through the eyes of newborn vamp, Bree, who we see...
View ArticleBook Review: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
It is no secret that I have highly ambivalent feelings about the works of Stephenie Meyer. Perhaps it is because I was the independent and headstrong girl who got involved with a psychopathic...
View ArticleBook Review: Intertwined by Gena Showalter
Sixteen-year-old Aden Stone is the boy nobody wanted. He has been diagnosed as a schizophrenic because he talks to himself and has been passed around between institutions and half-way houses his whole...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
It’s that time of the year again. Yes, it is the holidays, but the flavor of the week right now just so happens to be the third sequel and the first part of the so-called “worldwide phenomenon.” Yet...
View ArticleThe Most Famous Person I’ve Ever Met: Waiting for Stephenie Meyer
Driving three hours in a car with no air-conditioning wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Granted, we left at six o’clock in the morning and arrived in Texas before the sun completely melted away...
View ArticleEmerson and Thoreau Lost in the Twilight of the 21st Century
“That course wouldn’t be approved by the university’s curriculum director today,” said my former thesis advisor when I paid him a visit a quarter of a century later after completing my Masters in...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Host (2013)
With Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga finally ending, it didn’t take long for another of her novels to wreak havoc on the big screen. Having given vampires a worse name than they could ever give...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Okay, let’s get this out of the way right now; I am not this series' target audience. Now that we have that out of the way, let me just say that while I do not enjoy these films nor will I ever waste...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
In order not to be repetitive and strive for a little bit of objectivity, I refused to read my review for New Moon, the second installment of the Twilight series. I walked in with an open mind and...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
It’s that time of the year again. Yes, it is the holidays, but the flavor of the week right now just so happens to be the third sequel and the first part of the so-called “worldwide phenomenon.” Yet...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Host (2013)
With Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga finally ending, it didn’t take long for another of her novels to wreak havoc on the big screen. Having given vampires a worse name than they could ever give...
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